These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
2 Chronicles 16
Tanakh 14 verses
-
1
In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa, Baasa of went up against , and built Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa of .
Cross references (5)
-
2
Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of and of the king’s house, and sent to Ben-hadad of Aram, that dwelt at , saying:
Cross references (4)
- 3 There is a league between me and thee, as there was between my father and thy father; behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasa of , that he may depart from me.’
- 4 And Ben-hadad hearkened unto Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of ; and they smote Ijon, and , and Abelmaim, and all the store-cities of .
- 5 And it came to pass, when Baasa heard thereof, that he left off building Ramah, and let his work cease.
- 6 Then Asa the took all ; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasa had builded; and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah.
- 7 And at that time Hanani the came to Asa of , and said unto him: ‘Because thou hast relied on the of Aram, and hast not relied on thy , therefore is the host of the of Aram escaped out of thy hand.
- 8 Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge host, with chariots and horsemen exceeding many? yet, because thou didst rely on , He delivered them into thy hand.
-
9
For the eyes of run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong in the behalf of them whose is whole toward Him. Herein thou hast done foolishly; for from henceforth thou shalt have wars.’
Cross references (24)
Zechariah 4:10 Proverbs 15:3 Jeremiah 16:17 Proverbs 5:21 1 Peter 3:12 Psalm 34:15 2 Chronicles 6:20 Job 34:21 Jeremiah 32:19 Hebrews 4:13 Psalm 113:6 1 Samuel 13:13 2 Kings 20:3 Galatians 3:1 1 Kings 15:32 1 Chronicles 21:8 2 Samuel 12:7-12 Job 34:18-19 2 Chronicles 15:17 1 Corinthians 15:36 Jeremiah 5:21 Psalm 37:37 Luke 12:20 Matthew 5:22 - 10 Then Asa was wroth with the , and put him in the prison-house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.
- 11 And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of and .
- 12 And in the thirty and ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet; his disease was exceeding great; yet in his disease he sought not to , but to the physicians.
-
13
And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.
Cross references (1)
- 14 And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had hewn out for himself in the city of , and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds [of spices] prepared by the perfumers’ art; and they made a very great burning for him.