Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version

2 Chronicles 16:8-14 Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version (ETR)

8. Did you forget what happened with the Ethiopians and the Libyans who also had a powerful army with many chariots and horse soldiers? That time you depended on the Lord to help you, and he let you defeat them.

9. The eyes of the Lord go around looking in all the earth for people who are faithful to him so that he can make them strong. Asa, you did a foolish thing. So from now on you will have wars.”

10. Asa was angry with Hanani because of what he said. He was so mad that he put Hanani in prison. He was also very rough and cruel to some of the people then.

11. Everything Asa did, from the beginning to the end, is written in the book, The History of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

12. Asa’s feet became infected in his 39th year as king. Even though the infection was very serious, Asa did not go to the Lord for help. He went to the doctors instead.

13. Asa died in the 41st year as king and rested with his ancestors.

14. The people buried Asa in his own tomb that he made for himself in the City of David. They laid him in a bed that was filled with spices and different kinds of mixed perfumes, and they burned a large fire for him.