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Upon hearing the inspired words of this prophet, Azarias son of Oded, Asa’s courage rose; never an idol was left in Juda or Benjamin, or the cities he had recovered in the hill-country of Ephraim. He also dedicated anew the altar of the Lord before the temple porch, (2 Chronicles 15, 8)
In the third month of Asa’s twenty-fifth year they assembled at Jerusalem, (2 Chronicles 15, 10)
Death to high or low, death to man or woman, Asa cried, that turns to any god save the Lord God of Israel! (2 Chronicles 15, 13)
His own mother, Maacha, Asa deprived of her royal dignity, for making a forest shrine that had Priapus’ image in it; the image he broke, and burnt the fragments of it, and cast the ashes into the river Cedron. (2 Chronicles 15, 16)
And war there was none till Asa’s reign had reached its thirty-fifth year. (2 Chronicles 15, 19)
Then, in the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign, Baasa king of Israel invaded Juda, and began making a fortified city of Rama, so as to deny Asa’s subjects free passage. (2 Chronicles 16, 1)
Whereupon Asa took out all the silver and gold that was left in the treasure-chambers of temple and palace; this he sent to Benadad, king of Syria, at Damascus, with the message, (2 Chronicles 16, 2)
There is an alliance between us; were not thy father and mine ever at peace? Witness these gifts of silver and gold I send thee; do thou annul the treaty thou hast made with Baasa, king of Israel, and help me drive him out of my country. (2 Chronicles 16, 3)
So Baasa, when the news reached him, left his plan of fortifying Rama half-finished; (2 Chronicles 16, 5)
and Asa, with all Juda at his back, carried off the stones and wood-work that should have been used towards it, and with these fortified Gabaa and Maspha instead. (2 Chronicles 16, 6)
At this, Asa fell into a rage, and had the prophet committed to prison, to vent his high displeasure; it was at this time, too, that he put many of his subjects to death. (2 Chronicles 16, 10)
All that Asa did, first and last, is set down in the Annals of the kings of Israel and Juda. (2 Chronicles 16, 11)
