2 Chronicles 16
Asa Wars Against Baasha
16In the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign aBaasha king of Israel went up against Judah and built up Ramah in order to prevent anyone from going out or coming in to Asa king of Judah. 2Then Asa brought out silver and gold from the treasuries of the house of Yahweh and the king’s house, and sent them to Ben-hadad king of Aram, who lived in Damascus, saying, 3“Let there be a covenant between 1you and me, as between my father and your father. Behold, I have sent you silver and gold; go, break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel so that he will withdraw from me.” 4So Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his military forces against the cities of Israel, and they struck down Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim, and all athe 1store cities of Naphtali. 5Now it happened that when Baasha heard of it, he ceased building up Ramah and stopped his work. 6Then King Asa brought all Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber with which Baasha had been building, and with them he built Geba and Mizpah.
Asa Imprisons a Seer
7Now at that time aHanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, “bBecause you have leaned on the king of Aram and have not leaned on Yahweh your God, therefore the military force of the king of Aram has escaped out of your hand. 8“Were not athe Ethiopians and the Lubim ba vast military force with an exceedingly vast number of chariots and horsemen? Yet cbecause you leaned on Yahweh, He gave them into your hand. 9“For athe eyes of Yahweh move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those bwhose heart is wholly devoted to Him. You have acted foolishly in this. Indeed, from now on you will surely have wars.” 10Then Asa was vexed with the seer and put him in 1prison, for he was enraged at him for this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.
11aNow behold, the acts of Asa from first to last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel. 12And Asa became diseased in his feet in the thirty-ninth year of his reign. His disease was severe, yet even in his disease he adid not seek Yahweh, but the physicians. 13So Asa slept with his fathers. And he died in the forty-first year of his reign. 14And they buried him in his own tomb which he had 1cut out for himself in the city of David, and they laid him in the resting place which he had filled awith spices of various kinds blended by the perfumers’ art; and bthey made a very great fire for him.