1In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

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2 Chronicles 15:9, 2 Chronicles 15:9, 2 Chronicles 15:5, 2 Chronicles 11:13, 2 Chronicles 11:17

2Then 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 Ben Hadad king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying,

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2 Kings 12:18, 2 Kings 16:8, 2 Kings 18:15, 2 Chronicles 28:21, 2 Kings 12:18

3"Let there be a treaty between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. Behold, I have sent you silver and gold. Go, break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me."

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Psalms 15:4, Psalms 15:4, 2 Samuel 21:2, 2 Corinthians 6:16, Exodus 32:21

4Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they struck Ijon, and Dan, and Abel Maim, and all the storage cities of Naphtali.

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2 Chronicles 17:12, 1 Kings 9:19, Judges 18:28, Judges 18:29, Judges 20:1

5It happened, when Baasha heard of it, that he left off building Ramah, and let his work cease.

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6Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and its timber, with which Baasha had built; and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah.

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1 Kings 15:22, Zechariah 14:10, Joshua 18:24, Joshua 18:26, 1 Chronicles 6:60

7At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him, "Because you have relied on the king of Syria, and have not relied on the Lord your God, therefore is the army of the king of Syria escaped out of your hand.

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1 Kings 16:1, 2 Chronicles 19:2, 1 Kings 16:1, 2 Chronicles 19:2, Psalms 146:3

8Weren't the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge army, with chariots and horsemen exceeding many? Yet, because you relied on the Lord, he delivered them into your hand.

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2 Chronicles 12:3, 2 Chronicles 12:3, 2 Chronicles 13:16, 2 Chronicles 14:9, 2 Chronicles 14:12

9For the eyes of the Lord run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein you have done foolishly; for from henceforth you shall have wars."

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1 Peter 3:12, 1 Peter 3:12, Proverbs 15:3, Proverbs 15:3, Jeremiah 16:17

10Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.

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2 Chronicles 18:26, 2 Chronicles 18:26, 2 Chronicles 25:16, Isaiah 51:23, Luke 3:20

11Behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

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2 Chronicles 27:7, 2 Chronicles 35:27, 1 Kings 15:23, 1 Kings 15:24, 2 Chronicles 26:22

12In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet; his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he did not seek the Lord, but to the physicians.

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Jeremiah 17:5, Jeremiah 17:5, 2 Chronicles 28:22, 2 Chronicles 28:22, 1 Chronicles 10:14

13Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.

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1 Kings 15:24, 1 Kings 15:24

14They buried him in his own tombs, which he had dug out for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers' art: and they made a very great burning for him.

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2 Chronicles 21:19, Genesis 50:2, 2 Chronicles 21:19, Genesis 50:2, Jeremiah 34:5