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2. AikakirjaLuku 16

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In the thirty-sixth year of Asa's reign, Baasha king of Israel marched against Judah and fortified Ramah to cut off all traffic in and out for Asa king of Judah.
Then Asa took silver and gold from the treasuries of the house of the LORD and of the king's house and sent it to Ben-hadad king of Aram, who ruled in Damascus, with this message:
"Let there be a treaty between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. See, I have sent you silver and gold. Go, break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, so that he will withdraw from me."
Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his forces against the cities of Israel. They struck Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim, and all the storage cities of Naphtali.
When Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah and abandoned the work.
Then King Asa took all Judah, and they carried away the stones and timber of Ramah with which Baasha had been building, and with them he fortified Geba and Mizpah.
At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, "Because you relied on the king of Aram and not on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped your hand.
Were not the Cushites and the Libyans a mighty army with vast numbers of chariots and horsemen? But when you relied on the LORD, he gave them into your hand.
For the eyes of the LORD range through the whole earth to strengthen those whose hearts are wholly his. In this you have acted foolishly, and from now on you will have wars."
Asa was angry with the seer and put him in the stocks, for he was enraged at him over this. At that same time Asa also cruelly oppressed some of the people.
The acts of Asa, from first to last, are recorded in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.
In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa became diseased in his feet, and his illness grew severe. Yet even in his illness he did not seek the LORD, but turned to physicians.
So Asa rested with his fathers; he died in the forty-first year of his reign.
They buried him in the tomb he had cut out for himself in the city of David. They laid him on a bier filled with spices and all kinds of blended perfumes, and they made an enormous fire in his honor.
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