1Then, in the thirty-sixth year of his reign, Baasha, the king of Israel, ascended against Judah. And he encircled Ramah with a wall, so that no one could safely depart or enter from the kingdom of Asa.stylus2 Chronicles 15:9, 2 Chronicles 15:9, 2 Chronicles 15:5, 2 Chronicles 11:13, 2 Chronicles 11:172Therefore, Asa brought forth silver and gold from the treasuries of the house of the Lord, and from the treasuries of the king. And he sent to Benhadad, the king of Syria, who was living in Damascus, saying:stylus2 Kings 12:18, 2 Kings 16:8, 2 Kings 18:15, 2 Chronicles 28:21, 2 Kings 12:183“There is a pact between me and you. Also, my father and your father had an agreement. For this reason, I have sent silver and gold to you, so that you may break the pact that you have with Baasha, the king of Israel, and so that you may cause him to withdraw from me.”stylusPsalms 15:4, Psalms 15:4, 2 Samuel 21:2, 2 Corinthians 6:16, Exodus 32:214And when he verified this, Benhadad sent the leaders of his armies to the cities of Israel. And they struck Ahion, and Dan, and Abelmaim, and all the walled cities of Naphtali.stylus2 Chronicles 17:12, 1 Kings 9:19, Judges 18:28, Judges 18:29, Judges 20:15And when Baasha had heard of it, he ceased to build around Ramah, and he interrupted his work.stylus6Then king Asa took all of Judah, and they carried away from Ramah the stones and the wood that Baasha had prepared for the things to be built. And he built up Gibeah and Mizpah with them.stylus1 Kings 15:22, Zechariah 14:10, Joshua 18:24, Joshua 18:26, 1 Chronicles 6:607In that time, the prophet Hanani went to Asa, the king of Judah, and he said to him: “Because you have faith in the king of Syria, and not in the Lord your God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped from your hand.stylus1 Kings 16:1, 2 Chronicles 19:2, 1 Kings 16:1, 2 Chronicles 19:2, Psalms 146:38Were not the Ethiopians and the Libyans much more numerous in chariots, and horsemen, and an exceedingly great multitude? Yet when you believed in the Lord, he delivered them into your hand.stylus2 Chronicles 12:3, 2 Chronicles 12:3, 2 Chronicles 13:16, 2 Chronicles 14:9, 2 Chronicles 14:129For the eyes of the Lord contemplate the entire earth, and offer fortitude to those who believe in him with a perfect heart. And so, you acted foolishly. And so, because of this, from the present time wars shall rise up against you.”stylus1 Peter 3:12, 1 Peter 3:12, Proverbs 15:3, Proverbs 15:3, Jeremiah 16:1710And Asa was angry against the seer, and he ordered him to be sent into prison. For indeed, he had been very indignant over this. And in that time, he put to death very many of the people.stylus2 Chronicles 18:26, 2 Chronicles 18:26, 2 Chronicles 25:16, Isaiah 51:23, Luke 3:2011But the works of Asa, the first and the last, have been written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.stylus2 Chronicles 27:7, 2 Chronicles 35:27, 1 Kings 15:23, 1 Kings 15:24, 2 Chronicles 26:2212And now Asa became ill, in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, with a very severe pain in his feet. And yet, in his infirmity, he did not seek the Lord. Instead, he trusted more in the skill of physicians.stylusJeremiah 17:5, Jeremiah 17:5, 2 Chronicles 28:22, 2 Chronicles 28:22, 1 Chronicles 10:1413And he slept with his fathers. And he died in the forty-first year of his reign.stylus1 Kings 15:24, 1 Kings 15:2414And they buried him in his own sepulcher, which he had made for himself in the City of David. And they placed him upon his bed, full of the aromatics and ointments of courtesans, which were composed with the skill of the perfumers. And they burned these over him with very great ostentation.stylus2 Chronicles 21:19, Genesis 50:2, 2 Chronicles 21:19, Genesis 50:2, Jeremiah 34:5