The Second Book of The Chronicles

2Ch 16:1 And there was no more war unto the five and thirtieth year of the reign of A´-sa.

2Ch 16:2 Then A´-sa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of the Lord and of the king’s house, and sent to Ben–ha´-dad king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,

2Ch 16:3 There is a league between me and thee, as there was between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go, break thy league with Ba´-a-sha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.

2Ch 16:4 And Ben–ha´-dad hearkened unto king A´-sa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they smote I´-jon, and Dan, and A´bel–ma´-im, and all the store cities of Naph´-ta-li.

2Ch 16:5 And it came to pass, when Ba´-a-sha heard it, that he left off building of Ra´-mah, and let his work cease.

2Ch 16:6 Then A´-sa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the stones of Ra´-mah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Ba´-a-sha was building; and he built therewith Ge´-ba and Miz´-pah.

2Ch 16:7 And at that time Ha-na´-ni the seer came to A´-sa king of Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not relied on the Lord thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand.

2Ch 16:8 Were not the E-thi-o´-pi-ans and the Lu´-bims a huge host, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the Lord, He delivered them into thine hand.

2Ch 16:9 For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew Himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward Him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.

2Ch 16:10 Then A´-sa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And A´-sa oppressed some of the people the same time.

2Ch 16:11 And, behold, the acts of A´-sa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

2Ch 16:12 And A´-sa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians.

2Ch 16:13 And A´-sa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.

2Ch 16:14 And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries’ art: and they made a very great burning for him.