 1 In the thirty sixth year of the reign of Asa, King Baasha of Israel came against Judah and built Ramah so that he might let no one go out or come in to King Asa of Judah. 2 Asa brought out silver and gold from the treasures of the house of the Lord and from the king's house and sent them to King Benhadad of Syria who lived at Damascus saying, 3 A treaty between you and me, as there was between my father and your father. Behold, I have sent you silver and gold. Go and break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel, so that he may depart from me. 4 Benhadad listened to king Asa, and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel. They struck Ijon and Dan and Abelmaim and all the store cities of Naphtali. 5 When Baasha heard, he stopped building Ramah, and let his work stop. 6 Asa the king took all Judah. They carried away the stones of Ramah and timber with which Baasha was building and he built Geba and Mizpah with it. 7 At that time, Hanani the seer came to King Asa of Judah and said to him, Because you have relied on the king of Syria, and have not relied on the Lord your God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped out of your hand. 8 Were not the Cushites and the Libyans a huge army with many chariots and horsemen? Yet, because you relied on the Lord, he delivered them to you. 9 For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro in all the whole earth to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is perfect toward Him. You have done foolishly in this. Therefore from now on you shall have wars. 10 Asa was angry with the seer and put him in a prison house. For he was in a rage with him because of this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at that time. 11 Behold the acts of Asa, first and last, are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. 12 In the thirty ninth year of his reign, Asa was diseased in his feet, until his disease was very grievous. Yet in his disease he did not seek to the Lord, but to the physicians. 13 Asa slept with his fathers and died in the forty first year of his reign. 14 They buried him in his own tomb that he had made for himself in the city of David and laid him in the bed that was filled with sweet odors and kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers art. Then they made a very great burning for him.
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