14. The high places did not disappear; yet Asa’s heart was entirely with the Lord as long as he lived.
15. He brought into the house of the Lord his father’s and his own votive offerings of silver and gold and various vessels.
16. There was war between Asa and Baasha, king of Israel, all their days.
17. Baasha, king of Israel, attacked Judah and fortified Ramah to blockade Asa, king of Judah.
18. Asa then took all the silver and gold remaining in the treasuries of the house of the Lord and the house of the king. Entrusting them to his ministers, King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad, son of Tabrimmon, son of Hezion, king of Aram, who ruled in Damascus. He said:
19. “There is a treaty between you and me, as there was between your father and my father. I am sending you a present of silver and gold. Go, break your treaty with Baasha, king of Israel, that he may withdraw from me.”
20. Ben-hadad agreed with King Asa and sent the leaders of his troops against the cities of Israel. They attacked Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and all Chinnereth, besides all the land of Naphtali.
21. When Baasha heard of it, he left off fortifying Ramah, and stayed in Tirzah.
22. Then King Asa summoned all Judah without exception, and they carried away the stones and beams with which Baasha was fortifying Ramah. With them King Asa built Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah.
23. All the rest of the acts of Asa, with all his valor and all that he did, and the cities he built, are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah. But in his old age, Asa had an infirmity in his feet.
24. Asa rested with his ancestors; he was buried with his ancestors in the City of David his father, and his son Jehoshaphat succeeded him as king.
25. Nadab, son of Jeroboam, became king of Israel in the second year of Asa, king of Judah. For two years he reigned over Israel.
26. He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, walking in the way of his father and the sin he had caused Israel to commit.
27. Baasha, son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, plotted against him and struck him down at Gibbethon of the Philistines, which Nadab and all Israel were besieging.