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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 Legacy Standard Bible</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="../">LSB</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">Legacy Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/nasb_/2_chronicles/16.htm" style="color:#0092f2" title="NASB">►► </a></td></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">Asa Wars Against Baasha</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/16-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>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 <i>anyone</i> from going out or coming in to Asa king of Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/16-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>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, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/16-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“<i>Let there be</i> a covenant between <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>you and me, <i>as</i> 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.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>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 <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>store cities of Naphtali. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Now it happened that when Baasha heard <i>of it</i>, he ceased building up Ramah and stopped his work. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>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. <p class="hdg">Asa Imprisons a Seer</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim a vast military force with an exceedingly vast <i>number</i> of chariots and horsemen? Yet because you leaned on Yahweh, He gave them into your hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>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.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then Asa was vexed with the seer and put him in <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>prison, for he was enraged at him for this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Now behold, the acts of Asa from first to last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So Asa slept with his fathers. And he died in the forty-first year of his reign. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And they buried him in his own tomb which he had <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>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.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">3</span> Lit <i>me and you</i><br><span class="fnverse">4</span> Lit <i>storage places of the cities</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Lit <i>the house of the stocks</i><br><span class="fnverse">14</span> Lit <i>dug out</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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