2 Chronicles 16:1 Cross References - CLV

¹ In the thirty and sixth year of the reign of Asa, come up has Baasha king of Israel, against Judah, and builds Ramah, so as not to permit any going out and coming in to Asa king of Judah.

²⁷ if this people go up to make sacrifices in the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem, then has the heart of this people turned back unto their lord, unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they have slain me, and turned back unto Rehoboam king of Judah..

¹⁶ And war has been between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days, ¹⁷ and Baasha king of Israel goes up against Judah, and builds Ramah, not to permit any one going out and coming in to Asa king of Judah. ¹⁸ And Asa takes all the silver and the gold that are left in the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the house of the king, and gives them into the hand of his servants, and king Asa sends them unto Ben-Hadad, son of Tabrimmon, son of Hezion king of Aram, who is dwelling in Damascus, saying, ¹⁹ `A covenant [is] between me and you, between my father and your father; lo, I have sent to you a reward of silver and gold; go, break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel, and he goes up from off me.. ²⁰ And Ben-Hadad hearkens unto king Asa, and sends the heads of the forces that he has against cities of Israel, and smites Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-Beth-Maachah, and all Chinneroth, besides all the land of Naphtali;" ²¹ and it comes to pass at Baasha's hearing, that he ceases from building Ramah, and dwells in Tirzah. ²² And king Asa has summoned all Judah--there is none exempt--and they lift up the stones of Ramah, and its wood, that Baasha has built, and king Asa builds with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

¹³ And the priests, and the Levites, that [are] in all Israel, have stationed themselves by him, out of all their border, ¹⁴ for the Levites have left their suburbs and their possession, and they come to Judah and to Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons have cast them off from acting as priests to Yahweh, ¹⁵ and he establishes to him priests for high places, and for goats, and for calves, that he made-. ¹⁶ and after them, out of all the tribes of Israel, those giving their heart to seek Yahweh, Elohim of Israel, have come in to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Yahweh, Elohim of their father. ¹⁷ And they strengthen the kingdom of Judah, and strengthen Rehoboam son of Solomon, for three years, because they walked in the way of David and Solomon for three years.

⁵ and in those times there is no peace to him who is going out, and to him who is coming in, for many troubles [are] on all the inhabitants of the lands,

⁹ and gathers all Judah and Benjamin, and the sojourners with them out of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and out of Simeon--for they have fallen unto him from Israel in abundance, in their seeing that Yahweh his Elohim [is] with him.