Discovery Box1 Kings 15:18-20 
Context15:18 Asa took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace and handed it to his servants. He then told them to deliver it 1 to Ben Hadad son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, ruler in Damascus, along with this message: 15:19 “I want to make a treaty with you, like the one our fathers made. 2 See, I have sent you silver and gold as a present. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel, so he will retreat from my land.” 3 15:20 Ben Hadad accepted King Asa’s offer and ordered his army commanders to attack the cities of Israel. 4 They conquered 5 Ijon, Dan, Abel Beth Maacah, and all the territory of Naphtali, including the region of Kinnereth. 6
1 tn Heb “King Asa sent it.”
2 tn Heb “[May there be] a covenant between me and you [as there was] between my father and your father.”
3 tn Heb “so he will go up from upon me.”
4 tn Heb “and Ben Hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of the armies which belonged to him against the cities of Israel.”
5 tn Heb “he struck down.”
6 tn Heb “and all Kinnereth together with all the land of Naphtali.”
