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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>2 Chronicles 16 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_chronicles/16.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_chronicles/16-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > 2 Chronicles 16</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_chronicles/15.htm" title="2 Chronicles 15">◄</a> 2 Chronicles 16 <a href="../2_chronicles/17.htm" title="2 Chronicles 17">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/2_chronicles/16-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">War between Asa and Baasha<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../1_kings/15.htm#16">1 Kings 15:16–22</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/16-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>In the thirty and sixth year to the kingdom of Asa, Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah, and he will build Ramah, not to give him coming out and going in to Asa, king of Judah. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/16-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And Asa will bring forth silver and gold from the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the house of the king, and he will send to the son of Hadad king of Aram, dwelling in Darmesek, saying, <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/16-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>A covenant between me and between thee, and between my father and between thy father: behold, I sent to thee silver and gold; go break thy covenant with Baasha king of Israel, and he will go up from me. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And the son of Hadad will hear to king Asa, and he will send chiefs of the armies which were with him against the cities of Israel; and they will strike Ijon and Dan and Abel-Maim, and all the stores of the cities of Naphtali. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And it will be when Baasha heard, and he will desist from building Ramah, and cause his works to cease. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And Asa the king took all Judah; and they will lift up the stones of Ramah, and its woods which Baasha built, and he will build with it Geba and Mizpeh.<p> <A name="8"></a><p class="hdg">Hanani’s Message to Asa<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And in that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and he will say to him, In thy relying upon the king of Aram, and thou didst not rely upon Jehovah thy God, for this the power of the king of Aram escaped from thy hand. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Were not the Cushites and the Lubims for an army for multitude, for chariots, and for horsemen to a great multitude? and in thy relying upon Jehovah he gave them into thy hand. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For Jehovah, his eyes run to and fro in all the earth to strengthen himself with the perfected heart of them to him. Thou wert foolish for this that from now there is wars with thee. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And Asa will be indignant to the seer, and he will give him to the house of the stocks, for he was in anger with him for this And Asa will oppress from the people in that time.<p> <A name="12"></a><p class="hdg">The Death and Burial of Asa<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And behold, the words of Am, the first and the last, behold them written upon the book of the kings to Judah and to Israel. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And Asa in the thirty and ninth year to his kingdom will be diseased in his feet, his disease even to above: and also in his disease he sought not Jehovah but in physicians. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And Asa will lie down with his fathers, and he will die in the year forty and one to his kingdom. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And they will bury him in his graves which he digged for himself in the city of David, and they will lay him down upon the bed which was filled with spices and sorts seasoned with aromatics of work. 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