“ In the thirty - 6th year of Asa ’s reign Baasha Rex of Israel went up against Judah and fortified Ramah to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the dominion of Asa big businessman of Judah .
Asa then took the silver and gold out of the Treasury of the Lord ’s temple and of his own palace and sent it to Ben - Hadad king of Aram , who was ruling in Damascus . “ have there be a pact between me and you , ” he said , “ as there was between my father and your Father of the Church . See , I am sending you ash gray and gold . Now break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel so he will call in from me . ”
Ben - Hadad accord with King Asa and sent the commander of his force against the townspeople of Israel . They conquered Ijon , Dan , Abel Maim and all the store cities of Naphtali . When Baasha heard this , he stopped construct Ramah and forsake his work . Then King Asa brought all the man of Judah , and they carried by from Ramah the Harlan Fiske Stone and timber Baasha had been using . With them he built up Geba and Mizpah .
At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa Billie Jean King of Judah and said to him : “ Because you trust on the tycoon of Aram and not on the Lord your God , the army of the king of Aram has escaped from your mitt . Were not the Cushites and Libyans a mighty US Army with great number of chariots and horsemen ? Yet when you relied on the Lord , he give up them into your hand . For the heart of the Lord chain of mountains throughout the ground to tone those whose hearts are in full attached to him . You have done a goosy thing , and from now on you will be at war . ”
Asa was angry with the oracle because of this ; he was so enraged that he put him in prison house . At the same time Asa brutally oppressed some of the people .
The event of Asa ’s reign , from beginning to end , are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel . In the thirty - ninth class of his reign Asa was afflicted with a disease in his feet . Though his disease was stark , even in his illness he did not try assistance from the Lord , but only from the physician . Then in the forty - first year of his sovereignty Asa died and rested with his ancestors . They bury him in the tomb that he had cut out for himself in the City of David . They pose him on a bier hide with spices and various blended fragrance , and they made a vast fire in his honor . ”
King Asa of Judah started well and spent most of his sprightliness doing the right thing , but as he farm sometime , he trusted in mercenary and doc alternatively of the Lord .
A good monitor that when we are in demand , the first thing we should do is rick to our Father .
However He answers , it does n’t anguish to ask !
