1Then, in the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign, Baasha, king of Israel, came up against Judah, and built Ramah, to prevent anyone from coming to or going from Asa, king of Judah. 2Then Asa brought silver and gold out of the treasuries of the Temple of the LORD and the king's palace, and sent it to Ben-hadad, king of Syria, at Damascus, saying, 3”There is a league between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. I have sent you silver and gold; go, break your league with Baasha, king of Israel, so that he will withdraw from me.” 4And Ben-hadad responded to King Asa, and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they attacked Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim, and all the storage cities of Naphtali. 5And when Baasha heard it, he stopped building and fortifying Ramah. 6Then Asa and all Judah took Baasha’s stones and building materials from Ramah, and built Geba and Mizpah with them.

7And at that time Hanani, the seer, came to King Asa, of Judah, and said to him, “Because you have relied on the king of Syria, and not on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Syria escaped from you. 8Were the Ethiopians and the Lubim not a huge army, with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet, when you relied on the LORD, He delivered them into your hand. 9For the eyes of the LORD see throughout the whole earth, so that He may support those whose heart is perfect toward Him. In this you have acted foolishly; so, from now on, you shall have wars.” 10Then Asa was angry with the Hanani for his message, and put the seer in a prison house. At the same time, Asa mistreated some of the people.

11Now the acts and events of Asa, first to last, are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. 12And in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa was afflicted with a disease of his feet, which became severe; and again, he did not consult the LORD, but only physicians. 13And Asa died in the forty-first year of his reign. 14And they buried him in his own tomb, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and they laid him on a bier filled with sweet odors and various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers' (apothecaries') art; and they made a very great fire to honor him.