2 Chronicles 16:6

God's Word

Then King Asa took everyone in Judah ⌞to Ramah⌟. He made them carry the stones and lumber from Ramah. Baasha had been using those to fortify the city. Asa used the materials to fortify Geba in Benjamin and Mizpah.

Cross References

1 Kings 15:16

There was war between Asa and King Baasha of Israel as long as they lived.

1 Kings 15:22

Then King Asa drafted everyone in Judah and excused no one. He made them carry the stones and lumber from Ramah. Baasha had been using those to fortify the city. King Asa used the materials to fortify Geba in Benjamin and Mizpah.

1 Chronicles 6:60

From the tribe of Benjamin, Aaron’s descendants received Geba with its pastureland, Alemeth with its pastureland, and Anathoth with its pastureland. There was a total of 13 cities for their families.

2 Chronicles 16:5

When Baasha heard the news, he stopped fortifying Ramah and abandoned his work on it.

2 Chronicles 16:7

At that time the seer  Hanani came to King Asa of Judah and said to him, “Because you depended on the king of Syria and did not depend on the Lord your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped your grasp.

2 Chronicles 21:17

They fought against Judah, broke into the country, and took away everything that could be found in the royal palace. They even took Jehoram’s sons and wives. The only son left was Ahaziah, Jehoram’s youngest son.

Isaiah 10:29

They go through the mountain pass and lodge at Geba for the night. The people in Ramah tremble; the people in Saul’s Gibeah flee.

Jeremiah 40:6

Jeremiah went to Gedaliah, son of Ahikam, at Mizpah and lived with him among the people who were left in the land.

Zechariah 14:10

The whole earth will become like the plains from Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem. Jerusalem will rise and remain on its site, from Benjamin Gate to the place of First Gate, Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses.

Joshua 15:38

Dilean, Mizpah, Joktheel,

1 Samuel 10:17

Samuel called the people to ⌞come into the presence of⌟ the Lord at Mizpah.

1 Samuel 7:16

Every year he went around to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah in order to judge Israel in all those places.

1 Samuel 7:6

So the Israelites gathered together at Mizpah. They drew some water, poured it out in front of the Lord, and fasted that day. They confessed, “We have sinned against the Lord.” So Samuel judged Israel in Mizpah.