1 Kings 15:19

Easy To Read Version

Asa sent this message, “My father and your father had a peace agreement. Now I want to make a peace agreement with you. I am sending you this gift of gold and silver. Please break your treaty with Baasah the king of Israel so he will get out of my country and leave us alone.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 21:2

The Gibeonites were not Israelites. They were a group of Amorites. The Israelites had promised them {that they would not hurt the Gibeonites}. [120] But Saul tried to kill the Gibeonites. He did this because of his strong feelings for the people of Israel and Judah.)

1 Kings 15:16

During the time that King Asa was king of Judah, he was always fighting against Baasha, the king of Israel.

2 Kings 18:15

Hezekiah gave all the silver that was in the Lord’s temple [224] and in the king’s treasuries.

2 Chronicles 16:3

“Ben Hadad let there be an agreement between you and me. Let’s make it like the agreement your father and my father had. See, I am sending you silver and gold. Now, break your agreement with Baasha, king of Israel, so he will leave me alone and stop bothering me.”

2 Chronicles 16:7

At that time Hanani the seer {\cf2\super [198]} came to Asa, king of Judah. Hanani said to him, “Asa, you depended on the king of Aram to help you and not the Lord your God. You should have depended on the Lord. But, because you did not depend on the Lord for help, the king of Aram’s army escaped from you.

2 Chronicles 19:2

Jehu the seer {\cf2\super [217]} went out to meet Jehoshaphat. Jehu’s father’s name was Hanani. Jehu said to King Jehoshaphat, “Why did you help evil people? Why do you love those people that hate the Lord? That is the reason the Lord is angry with you.

Isaiah 31:1

Look at the people going down to Egypt for help. The people ask for horses. They think horses will save them. The people hope the chariots {\cf2\super [289]} and horse soldiers from Egypt will protect them. The people think they are safe because that army is very big. The people don’t trust the Holy One of Israel (God). The people don’t ask the Lord for help.

Romans 1:31

they are foolish, they don’t keep their promises, and they show no kindness or mercy to other people.

Romans 3:8

It would be the same to say, “We should do evil so that good will come.” Many people criticize us and say that we teach those things. People that say those things are wrong, and they should be condemned.