1 No trigésimo sexto ano do reinado de Asa, Baasa, rei de Israel, subiu contra Judá e edificou a Ramá, para não deixar ninguém sair, nem chegar a Asa, rei de Judá.

2 Então Asa tirou a prata e o ouro dos tesouros da casa do Senhor, e da casa do rei; e enviou servos a Ben-Hadade, rei da Síria, que habitava em Damasco, dizendo:

3 Acordo há entre mim e ti, como houve entre meu pai e o teu; eis que te envio prata e ouro; vai, pois, e anula o teu acordo com Baasa, rei de Israel, para que se retire de sobre mim.

4 E Ben-Hadade deu ouvidos ao rei Asa, e enviou os capitães dos seus exércitos, contra as cidades de Israel, e eles feriram a Ijom, a Dã, a Abel-Maim, e a todas as cidades-armazéns de Naftali.

5 E sucedeu que, ouvindo-o Baasa, deixou de edificar a Ramá, e não continuou a sua obra.

6 Então o rei Asa tomou a todo o Judá, e levaram as pedras de Ramá, e a sua madeira, com que Baasa edificara; e com elas edificou a Geba e a Mizpá.

7 Naquele mesmo tempo veio Hanani, o vidente, a Asa, rei de Judá, e disse-lhe: Porquanto confiaste no rei da Síria, e não confiaste no Senhor teu Deus, por isso o exército do rei da Síria escapou da tua mão.

8 Porventura não foram os etíopes e os líbios um grande exército, com muitíssimos carros e cavaleiros? Confiando tu, porém, no Senhor, ele os entregou nas tuas mãos.

9 Porque, quanto ao Senhor, seus olhos passam por toda a terra, para mostrar-se forte para com aqueles cujo coração é perfeito para com ele; nisto, pois, procedeste loucamente porque desde agora haverá guerras contra ti.

10 Porém Asa se indignou contra o vidente, e lançou-o na casa do tronco; porque estava enfurecido contra ele, por causa disto; também Asa, no mesmo tempo, oprimiu a alguns do povo.

11 E eis que os atos de Asa, tanto os primeiros, como os últimos, estão escritos no livro dos reis de Judá e Israel.

12 E, no ano trinta e nove do seu reinado, Asa caiu doente de seus pés, a sua doença era em extremo grave; contudo, na sua enfermidade, não buscou ao Senhor, mas antes os médicos.

13 E Asa dormiu com seus pais; e morreu no ano quarenta e um do seu reinado.

14 E o sepultaram no seu sepulcro, que tinha cavado para si na cidade de Davi, havendo-o deitado na cama, que se enchera de perfumes e especiarias preparadas segundo a arte dos perfumistas; e, destas coisas fizeram-lhe uma grande queima.

1 In the thirty-sixth year of the rule of Asa, Baasha, king of Israel, went up against Judah, building Ramah so that no one was able to go out or in to Asa, king of Judah.

2 Then Asa took silver and gold out of the stores of the Lord's house and of the king's store-house, and sent to Ben-hadad, king of Aram, at Damascus, saying,

3 Let there be an agreement between me and you as there was between my father and your father: see, I have sent you silver and gold; go and put an end to your agreement with Baasha, king of Israel, so that he may give up attacking me.

4 And Ben-hadad did as King Asa said, and sent the captains of his armies against the towns of Israel, attacking Ijon and Dan and Abel-maim, and all the store-towns of Naphtali.

5 Then Baasha, hearing of it, put a stop to the building of Ramah, and let his work come to an end.

6 Then King Asa, with all Judah, took away the stones and wood with which Baasha was building Ramah, and he made use of them for building Geba and Mizpah.

7 At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa, king of Judah, and said to him, Because you have put your faith in the king of Aram and not in the Lord your God, the army of the king of Aram has got away out of your hands.

8 Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim a very great army, with war-carriages and horsemen more than might be numbered? but because your faith was in the Lord, he gave them up into your hands.

9 For the eyes of the Lord go this way and that, through all the earth, letting it be seen that he is the strong support of those whose hearts are true to him. In this you have done foolishly, for from now you will have wars.

10 Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in prison, burning with wrath against him because of this thing. And at the same time Asa was cruel to some of the people.

11 Now the acts of Asa, first and last, are recorded in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

12 In the thirty-ninth year of his rule, Asa had a very bad disease of the feet; but he did not go to the Lord for help in his disease, but to medical men.

13 So Asa went to rest with his fathers, and death came to him in the forty-first year of his rule.

14 And they put him into the resting-place which he had made for himself in the town of David, in a bed full of sweet perfumes of all sorts of spices, made by the perfumer's art, and they made a great burning for him.