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1 In the six and thir­ti­eth year of the reign of Asa Baasha king of Is­rael came up against Ju­dah, and built Ramah, to the in­tent that he might let none go out or come in to Asa king of Ju­dah. 2 Then Asa brought out sil­ver and gold out of the trea­sures of the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent to Ben­hadad king of Syr­ia, that dwelt at Dam­as­cus, say­ing, 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 Baasha king of Is­rael, that he may de­part from me. 4 And Ben­hadad hear­kened unto king Asa, and sent the cap­tains of his armies against the cities of Is­rael; and they smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel­maim, and all the store cities of Naph­tali. 5 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard it, that he left off build­ing of Ramah, and let his work cease. 6 Then Asa the king took all Ju­dah; and they car­ried away the stones of Ramah, and the tim­ber there­of, where­with Baasha was build­ing; and he built there­with Geba and Miz­pah. 7 And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa 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. 8 Were not the Ethiopi­ans and the Lu­bims a huge host, with very many char­i­ots and horse­men? yet, be­cause thou didst rely on the LORD, he de­liv­ered them into thine hand. 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. 10 Then Asa 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 Asa op­pressed some of the peo­ple the same time. 11 And, be­hold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are writ­ten in the book of the kings of Ju­dah and Is­rael. 12 And Asa 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. 13 And Asa slept with his fa­thers, and died in the one and for­ti­eth year of his reign. 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.