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2 Chronicles 16

Late in Asa’s reign, Baasha king of Israel fortifies Ramah to control movement into Judah. Instead of seeking the LORD as he had earlier, Asa takes silver and gold from the temple and royal treasuries to buy an alliance with Ben-hadad of Syria. The strategy works militarily, but Hanani the seer rebukes Asa for relying on Syria. Asa becomes angry, imprisons the prophet, oppresses some people, and later suffers a severe foot disease; even then he seeks physicians rather than the LORD. He dies after forty-one years.

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Late in Asa’s reign, Baasha king of Israel fortifies Ramah to control movement into Judah. Instead of seeking the LORD as he had earlier, Asa takes silver and gold from the temple and royal treasuries to buy an alliance with Ben-hadad of Syria. The strategy works militarily, but Hanani the seer rebukes Asa for relying on Syria. Asa becomes angry, imprisons the prophet, oppresses some people, and later suffers a severe foot disease; even then he seeks physicians rather than the LORD. He dies after forty-one years.

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Verses 1–6Asa relies on Syria against Baasha and gains relief from RamahVerses 7–10Hanani rebukes Asa for not relying on the LORD, and Asa becomes angryVerses 11–14Asa becomes diseased, seeks physicians rather than the LORD, and dies
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1In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of…2Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the…3There is a league between me and thee, as there…4And Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains…5And it came to pass, when Baasha heard it, that…6Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried…7And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa…8Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host,…9For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro…10Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him…11And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo,…12And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his…13And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the…14And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he…