1 No trigésimo sexto ano do reinado de Asa, subiu Baasa, rei de Israel, contra Judá, e edificou a Ramá, para que não deixasse entrar alguém a Asa, rei de Judá, ou sair dele.

2 Então Asa tirou prata e ouro dos tesouros da casa de Jeová e da casa do rei, e enviou mensageiros a Benadade, rei da Síria, que habitava em Damasco, os quais lhe disseram:

3 Há uma aliança entre mim e ti, como havia entre meu pai e teu pai. Eis que te envio prata e ouro; vai, rompe a tua aliança com Baasa, rei de Israel, para que se retire de mim.

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

5 O que tendo ouvido Baasa, cessou de edificar a Ramá, e não prosseguiu na sua obra.

6 Então o rei Asa tomou todo o Judá; levaram as pedras e as madeiras, com que Baasa tinha edificado a Ramá, e com elas edificou a Geba e a Mizpa.

7 Naquele tempo veio ter o profeta Hanani com Asa, rei de Judá, e lhe disse: Porque confiaste no rei da Síria e não confiaste em Jeová teu Deus, por isso o exército do rei da Síria escapou da tua mão.

8 Acaso não eram os etíopes e os líbios um exército imenso, com muitíssimos carros e cavalos? contudo, porque confiaste em Jeová, ele os entregou nas tuas mãos.

9 Porque Jeová lança olhares sobre a terra toda para se mostrar forte a favor daqueles cujo coração é perfeito para com ele. Nisto procedeste loucamente, pois desde agora se levantarão guerras contra ti.

10 Então Asa, irado contra o vidente, o meteu no cárcere, porque estava enfurecido contra ele por causa disto. Na mesma ocasião oprimiu Asa alguns do povo.

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

12 No trigésimo nono ano do seu reinado caiu Asa doente dos pés; a sua doença era no extremo grave. Contudo na sua doença não recorreu a Jeová, mas aos médicos.

13 Adormeceu Asa com seus pais, e morreu no ano quarenta e um do seu reinado.

14 Sepultaram-no no seu sepulcro que mandara cavar para si na cidade de Davi, e puseram-no sobre o leito que se enchera de perfumes e de diversas especiarias, preparados segundo a arte dos perfumistas. Foi mui grande a queima que por ele fizeram destas coisas.

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.