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2 Chronicles 14:8

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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

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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 Judah 2  carried off a huge amount of plunder.

2 Chronicles 16:2

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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

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

2 Chronicles 16:6

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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 up 7  Geba and Mizpah.

2 Chronicles 16:12

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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

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17:2 He placed troops in all of Judah’s fortified cities and posted garrisons 10  throughout the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had seized.

2 Chronicles 21:12

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21:12 Jehoram 11  received this letter from Elijah the prophet: “This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: ‘You 12  have not followed in the footsteps 13  of your father Jehoshaphat and of 14  King Asa of Judah,

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

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

3 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.”

4 tn Heb “They struck down.”

5 sn 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.

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

7 tn Heb “and he built with them.”

8 tn Heb “became sick in his feet.”

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

10 tn Or perhaps, “governors.”

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

12 tn 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.

13 tn Heb “walked in the ways.”

14 tn Heb “in the ways of.”



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