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2 Chronicles 16 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Asa Wars Against Baasha

(1Ki 15:16–22 )

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In the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign Baasha 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:2 - Then 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,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:3 - “Let there be a covenant between [fn]you 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.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:4 - So 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 the [fn]store cities of Naphtali.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:5 - Now it happened that when Baasha heard of it, he ceased building up Ramah and stopped his work.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:6 - Then 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

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Now at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, “Because 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:8 - “Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim a vast military force with an exceedingly vast number of chariots and horsemen? Yet because you leaned on Yahweh, He gave them into your hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:9 - “For the eyes of Yahweh move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is wholly devoted to Him. You have acted foolishly in this. Indeed, from now on you will surely have wars.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:10 - Then Asa was vexed with the seer and put him in [fn]prison, for he was enraged at him for this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.
(1Ki 15:23, 24 )

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Now behold, the acts of Asa from first to last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:12 - And Asa became diseased in his feet in the thirty-ninth year of his reign. His disease was severe, yet even in his disease he did not seek Yahweh, but the physicians.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:13 - So Asa slept with his fathers. And he died in the forty-first year of his reign.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:14 - And they buried him in his own tomb which he had [fn]cut out for himself in the city of David, and they laid him in the resting place which he had filled with spices of various kinds blended by the perfumers’ art; and they made a very great fire for him.
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Lit me and you
Lit storage places of the cities
Lit the house of the stocks
Lit dug out
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