2 Chronicles 16

¹ In the thirty and sixth year of the reign of Asa, come up has Baasha king of Israel, against Judah, and builds Ramah, so as not to permit any going out and coming in to Asa king of Judah. ² And Asa brings out silver and gold from the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and of the house of the king, and sends unto Ben-Hadad king of Aram, who is dwelling in Damascus, saying, ³ "A covenant [is] between me and you, and between my father and your father, lo, I have sent to you silver and gold; go, break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel, and he does go up from off me." ⁴ And Ben-Hadad hearkens unto king Asa, and sends the heads of the forces that he has unto cities of Israel, and they smite Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-Maim, and all the stores, cities of Naphtali. ⁵ And it comes to pass, at Baasha's hearing, that he ceases from building Ramah, and lets his work rest; ⁶ and Asa the king has taken all Judah, and they bear away the stones of Ramah, and its wood, that Baasha has built, and he builds with them Geba and Mizpah. ⁷ And at that time has Hanani the seer come in unto Asa king of Judah, and said unto him, "Because of your leaning on the king of Aram, and you have not leaned on Yahweh your Elohim, therefore has the force of the king of Aram escaped from your hand. ⁸ Did not the Cushim and the Lubim become a very great force for multitude, for chariot, and for horsemen? and in your leaning on Yahweh He gave them into your hand, ⁹ for Yahweh - His eyes go to and fro in all the earth, to show Himself strong [for] a people whose heart [is] perfect towards Him; you have been foolish concerning this, because - henceforth there are with you wars." ¹⁰ And Asa is angry at the seer, and gives him to the house of torture, for [he is] in a rage with him for this; and Asa oppresses [some] of the people at that time. ¹¹ And lo, the matters of Asa, the first and the last, lo, they are written on the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. ¹² And Asa is diseased - in the thirty and ninth year of his reign - in his feet, till his disease is excessive, and also in his disease he has not sought Yahweh, but among physicians. ¹³ And Asa lies with his fathers, and dies in the forty and first year of his reign, ¹⁴ and they bury him in [one of] his graves, that he had prepared for himself in the city of David, and they cause him to lie on a bed that [one] has filled [with] spices, and divers kinds of mixtures, with perfumed work; and they burn for him a burning - very great.