RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

the reign of Asa.
DIVRE HAYAMIM BET – SECOND CHRONICLES
In the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha
Melech of Yisrael came up against Yahudah, and rebuilt
Ramah, with the intent that he might let no one go out,
or come in to Asa melech of Yahudah.
2 Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the
treasures of the Bayit of vuvh and of the melech’s bayit,
and sent to Ben-Hadad melech of Aram, that dwelt at
Dameshek, saying,
3 There is a brit between me and you, as there was
between my abba and your abba: see, I have sent you
silver and gold; go, break your brit with Baasha melech
of Yisrael, that he may depart from me.
4 And Ben-Hadad listened to melech Asa, and sent the
captains of his armies against the cities of Yisrael; and
they smote Iyon, and Dan, and Avel-Mayim, and all the
storage cities of Naphtali.
5 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard it, that he
stopped the rebuilding of Ramah, and let his work
cease.
6 Then Asa the melech took all Yahudah; and they
carried away the stones of Ramah, and its timber, with
which Baasha was building; and he built with it Geva
and Mitzpah.
7 And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa melech
of Yahudah, and said to him, Because you have relied
on the melech of Aram, and not relied on vuvh your
Elohim, therefore the army of the melech of Aram has
escaped out of your hand.
8 Were not the Ethiopians and the Luvims a huge army,
with very many mirkavot and horsemen? Yet, because
you did rely on vuvh, He delivered them into your hand.
9 For the eyes of vuvh run to and fro throughout the
whole earth, to show Himself strong on the behalf of
those whose lev is perfect toward Him. In this matter
you have done foolishly: therefore from now on you
shall have wars.
10 Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in a
prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this
thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people at the
same time.
11 And, see, the acts of Asa, first and last, see, they are
written in the Scroll of the Melechim of Yahudah and
Yisrael.
12 And Asa in the thirty-ninth year of his reign was
diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceedingly
great: yet in his disease he looked not to vuvh, but to the
physicians. 4317
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13 And Asa slept with his ahvot, and died in the fortyfirst
year of his reign.
14 And they buried him in his own tomb, which he had
made for himself in the city of Dawid, and laid him in
the bed which was filled with sweet odors and divers
kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers skill: and they
made a very great burnt offering for him.
And Yahushaphat his son reigned in his place, and
strengthened himself against Yisrael.
2 And he placed forces in all the fortified cities of
Yahudah, and set watch-posts in the land of Yahudah,
and in the cities of Efrayim, which Asa his abba had
taken. 4318
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3 And vuvh was with Yahushaphat, because he had his
halacha in the first ways of his abba Dawid, and sought
not any Ba’alim;
4 But looked to vuvh Elohim of his abba, and had his
halacha in His mishpatim, and not after the doings of
Yisrael.
5 Therefore vuvh established the malchut in his hand;
and all Yahudah brought to Yahushaphat presents; and
he had riches and honor in great abundance.
6 And his lev was encouraged in the ways of vuvh:
moreover he took away the idol temples and Asherim
out of Yahudah.
7 Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his rulers,
Ben-Hail, and Ovadyah, and Zacharyah, and Natan-El,
and Michayahu, to teach in the cities of Yahudah.
8 And with them he sent Lewiym, even Shemayah, and
Nethanyahu, and Zevadyahu, and Asah-El, and
Shemiramoth, and Yehonathan, and Adoniyahu, and
Toviyahu, and Tov-Adoniyah, Lewiym; and with them
Elishama and Yahuram, Kohanim. 4319
9 And they taught in Yahudah, and had the scroll of the
Torah of vuvh with them, and went around throughout
all the cities of Yahudah, and taught the people. 4320
10 And the fear of vuvh fell upon all the malchutim of
the lands that were all around Yahudah, so that they
made no war against Yahushaphat.
11 Also some of the Plishtim brought Yahushaphat
presents, and compulsory labor and silver; and the
Arabians brought him flocks, seven thousand seven
hundred rams, and seven thousand seven hundred male
goats.
12 And Yahushaphat grew great exceedingly; and he
built in Yahudah castles, and cities of storage.
13 And he had much business in the cities of Yahudah:
and the men of war, mighty men of bravery, were in
Yahrushalayim.
14 And these are their numbers according to the bayit of
their ahvot: Of Yahudah, the captains of thousands;
Adnah the head, and with him mighty men of bravery
three hundred thousand.
15 And next to him was Yahuchanan the captain, and
with him two hundred eighty thousand.
16 And next to him was Amatsyah the son of Zichri,
who willingly offered himself to vuvh; and with him
two hundred thousand mighty men of bravery.
17 And of Benyamin; Elyada a mighty man of bravery,
and with him armed men with bow and shield two
hundred thousand.
18 And next to him was Yahuzavad, and with him a
hundred eighty thousand ready prepared for the war.
19 These served the melech, beside those whom the
melech put in the fortified cities throughout all
Yahudah.
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Now Yahushaphat had riches and honor in
abundance, and was aligned with Achav by marriage.
2 And after certain years he went down to Achav to
Shomron. And Achav killed sheep and oxen for him in
abundance, and for the people that he had with him, and
persuaded him to go up with him to Ramot-Gilad.
3 And Achav melech of Yisrael said to Yahushaphat
melech of Yahudah, Will you go with me to Ramot-
Gilad? And he answered him, I am as you are, and my