2 Chronicles 14:8

14:8 Asa had an army of 300,000 men from Judah, equipped with large shields and spears. He also had 280,000 men from Benjamin who carried small shields and were adept archers; they were all skilled warriors.

2 Chronicles 14:13

14:13 and Asa and his army chased them as far as Gerar. The Cushites were wiped out;¹ they were shattered before the Lord and his army. The men of Judah² carried off a huge amount of plunder.

2 Chronicles 16:2

16:2 Asa took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace and sent it to King Ben Hadad of Syria, ruler in Damascus, along with this message:

2 Chronicles 16:4

16:4 Ben Hadad accepted King Asa’s offer and ordered his army commanders to attack the cities of Israel.³ They conquered⁴ Ijon, Dan, Abel Maim,⁵ and all the storage cities of Naphtali.

2 Chronicles 16:6

16:6 King Asa ordered all the men of Judah to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah.⁶ He used the materials to build up⁷ Geba and Mizpah.

2 Chronicles 16:12

16:12 In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa developed a foot disease.⁸ Though his disease was severe, he did not seek the Lord, but only the doctors.⁹

2 Chronicles 17:2

17:2 He placed troops in all of Judah’s fortified cities and posted garrisons¹⁰ throughout the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had seized.

2 Chronicles 21:12

21:12 Jehoram¹¹ received this letter from Elijah the prophet: “This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: ‘You¹² have not followed in the footsteps¹³ of your father Jehoshaphat and of¹⁴ King Asa of Judah,

¹tn Heb “and there fell from the Cushites so that there was not to them preservation of life.”

²tn Heb “they”; the referent (the men of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³tn Heb “and Ben Hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of the armies which belonged to him against the cities of Israel.”

⁴tn Heb “They struck down.”

⁵sn In the parallel passage in 1 Kgs 15:20, this city’s name appears as Abel Beth Maacah. These appear to be variant names for the same place.

⁶tn Heb “and King Asa took all Judah and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its wood which Baasha had built.”

⁷tn Heb “and he built with them.”

⁸tn Heb “became sick in his feet.”

⁹tn Heb “unto upwards [i.e., very severe [was] his sickness, and even in his sickness he did not seek the Lord, only the healers.

¹⁰tn Or perhaps, “governors.”

¹¹tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoram) has been specified in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

¹²tn Heb “Because you…” In the Hebrew text this lengthy sentence is completed in vv. 14-15. Because of its length and complexity (and the tendency of contemporary English to use shorter sentences), the translation has divided it up into several English sentences.

¹³tn Heb “walked in the ways.”

¹⁴tn Heb “in the ways of.”