2 Chronicles 16:2–9

²So Asa brought out the silver and gold from the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and the royal palace and sent it to Aram’s King Ben-hadad, who lived in Damascus, saying, ³“There’s a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. Look, I have sent you silver and gold. Go break your treaty with Israel’s King Baasha so that he will withdraw from me.”

⁴Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies to the cities of Israel. They attacked Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim, and all the storage cities of Naphtali. ⁵When Baasha heard about it, he quit building Ramah and stopped his work. ⁶Then King Asa brought all Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timbers Baasha had built it with. Then he built Geba and Mizpah with them.

HANANI’S REBUKE OF ASA

⁷At that time, the seer Hanani^r came to King Asa of Judah and said to him, “Because you depended on the king of Aram and have not depended on the Lord your God,^s the army of the king of Aram has escaped from you. ⁸Were not the Cushites and Libyans a vast army with many chariots and horsemen?^t When you depended on the Lord, he handed them over to you.^{u 9}For the eyes of the Lord roam throughout the earth^v to show himself strong for those who are wholeheartedly devoted to him.^w You have been foolish in this matter. Therefore, you will have wars from now on.”