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2 Chronicles 16:5-14

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5 When Baasha heard of it, he ceased fortifying Ramah and stopped his work.
6 Then King Asa brought all Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber with which Baasha had been building, and with them he fortified Geba and Mizpah.

Asa Imprisons the Prophet

7 At that time 1Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, "2Because you have relied on the king of Aram and have not relied on the LORD your God, therefore * the army of the king of Aram has escaped out of your hand.
8 "Were not 3the Ethiopians and the Lubim 4an immense army with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet 5because you relied on the LORD, He delivered them into your hand.
9 "For 6the eyes of the LORD move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those 7whose heart is completely His. You have acted foolishly in this. Indeed, from now on you will surely have wars."
10 Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him in prison *, for he was enraged at him for this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.
11 8Now, the acts of Asa from first to last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.
12 In the thirty-ninth * year of his reign Asa became diseased in his feet. His disease was severe, yet even in his disease he 9did not seek the LORD, but the physicians.
13 So Asa slept with his fathers, having died in the forty-first * year of his reign.
14 They buried him in his own tomb which he had cut out for himself in the city of David, and they laid him in the resting place which he had filled 10with spices of various kinds blended by the perfumers' * art; and 11they made a very * great fire for him.
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2 Chronicles 16:5-14 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 16

Baasha coming up against Judah, and building Ramah, Asa made a league with the king of Syria, and hired him to make a diversion in his favour, and cause Baasha to leave off building, which succeeded, 2Ch 16:1-6, for which he was reproved by a prophet of the Lord, with whom he was so angry for it as to put him in prison, and oppress others, 2Ch 16:7,10, and the chapter is closed with an account of his disease and conduct under it, and of his death and burial, 2Ch 16:11-14.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Cross References 11

  • 1. 1 Kings 16:1; 2 Chronicles 19:2
  • 2. 2 Chronicles 14:11; 2 Chronicles 32:7, 8
  • 3. 2 Chronicles 14:9
  • 4. 2 Chronicles 12:3
  • 5. 2 Chronicles 13:16, 18
  • 6. Proverbs 15:3; Jeremiah 16:17; Zechariah 4:10
  • 7. 2 Chronicles 15:17
  • 8. 1 Kings 15:23, 24
  • 9. Jeremiah 17:5
  • 10. Genesis 50:2; John 19:39, 40
  • 11. 2 Chronicles 21:19

Footnotes 4

  • [a] Lit "building"
  • [b] Lit "built"
  • [c] Lit "the house of the stocks"
  • [d] Lit "and"
Scripture quotations taken from the (NASB®) New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. www.Lockman.org

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