2 Chronicles 16 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ In the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Asa, Baʽ

² And Asa brought silver and gold from the treasuries of the House of יהוה  and of the sovereign’s house, and sent to Ben-Haḏ

³ “Let there be a covenant between you and me, as there was between my father and your father. See, I have sent you silver and gold. Come, break your covenant with Baʽ

⁴ And Ben-Haḏ

⁵ And it came to be, when Baʽ

⁶ Then Asa the sovereign brought all Yehuḏ

⁷ And at that time Ḥ

⁸ “Were the Kushites and the Luḇ

⁹ “For the eyes of יהוה  diligently search throughout all the earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is perfect to Him. You have acted foolishly in this, so from now on you shall have battles.”

¹⁰ And Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in prison, for he was enraged at him because of this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at that time.

¹¹ And look, the acts of Asa, the first and the last, see, they are written in the book of the sovereigns of Yehuḏ

¹² And in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa became diseased in his feet, and his disease was severe. Yet even in his disease he did not seek יהוה, but the physicians.

¹³ So Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the forty-first year of his reign.

¹⁴ And they buried him in his own tomb, which he had made for himself in the City of Dawiḏ