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.

1 Anno autem trigesimo sexto regni ejus, ascendit Baasa rex Isral in Judam, et muro circumdabat Rama, ut nullus tute posset egredi et ingredi de regno Asa. 2 Protulit ergo Asa argentum et aurum de thesauris domus Domini, et de thesauris regis, misitque ad Benadad regem Syri, qui habitabat in Damasco, dicens : 3 Fdus inter me et te est ; pater quoque meus et pater tuus habuere concordiam : quam ob rem misi tibi argentum et aurum, ut rupto fdere quod habes cum Baasa rege Isral, facias eum a me recedere. 4 Quo comperto, Benadad misit principes exercituum suorum ad urbes Isral : qui percusserunt Ahion, et Dan, et Abelmaim, et universas urbes Nephthali muratas. 5 Quod cum audisset Baasa, desiit dificare Rama, et intermisit opus suum. 6 Porro Asa rex assumpsit universum Judam, et tulerunt lapides de Rama, et ligna qu dificationi prparaverat Baasa, dificavitque ex eis Gabaa et Maspha. 7 In tempore illo venit Hanani propheta ad Asa regem Juda, et dixit ei : Quia habuisti fiduciam in rege Syri, et non in Domino Deo tuo, idcirco evasit Syri regis exercitus de manu tua. 8 Nonne thiopes et Libyes multo plures erant quadrigis, et equitibus, et multitudine nimia ? quos cum Domino credidisses, tradidit in manu tua. 9 Oculi enim Domini contemplantur universam terram, et prbent fortitudinem his qui corde perfecto credunt in eum. Stulte igitur egisti, et propter hoc ex prsenti tempore adversum te bella consurgent. 10 Iratusque Asa adversus videntem, jussit eum mitti in nervum : valde quippe super hoc fuerat indignatus : et interfecit de populo in tempore illo plurimos.11 Opera autem Asa prima et novissima scripta sunt in libro regum Juda et Isral. 12 grotavit etiam Asa anno trigesimo nono regni sui, dolore pedum vehementissimo, et nec in infirmitate sua qusivit Dominum, sed magis in medicorum arte confisus est. 13 Dormivitque cum patribus suis, et mortuus est anno quadragesimo primo regni sui. 14 Et sepelierunt eum in sepulchro suo quod foderat sibi in civitate David : posueruntque eum super lectum suum plenum aromatibus et unguentibus meretriciis, qu erant pigmentariorum arte confecta, et combusserunt super eum ambitione nimia.