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2 Chronicles 16:1

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

In the thirty-sixth year of Asa,  Israel’s King Baasha went to war against Judah. He built Ramah in order to keep anyone from leaving or coming to King Asa of Judah.

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Then he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, as well as those from the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who were residing among them, for they had defected to him from Israel in great numbers when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.


In those times there was no peace for those who went about their daily activities because the residents of the lands had many conflicts.


If these people regularly go to offer sacrifices in the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem,  the heart of these people will return to their lord, King Rehoboam of Judah. They will kill me and go back to the king of Judah.’


There was no war until the thirty-fifth year of Asa’s reign.


So Asa brought out the silver and gold from the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and the royal palace and sent it to Aram’s King Ben-hadad, who lived in Damascus, saying,


Now the cistern where Ishmael had thrown all the corpses of the men he had struck down was a large one  that King Asa had made in the encounter with King Baasha of Israel.  Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.


This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord after Nebuzaradan, captain of the guards, released him at Ramah.  When he found him, he was bound in chains with all the exiles of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon.





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