19. “Our fathers signed a peace treaty. Why don't we do the same thing? This silver and gold is a present for you. So, would you please break your treaty with Baasha and force him to leave my country?”
20. Benhadad did what Asa asked and sent the Syrian army into Israel. They captured the towns of Ijon, Dan, and Abel-Bethmaacah, and the territories of Chinneroth and Naphtali.
21. When Baasha heard about it, he left Ramah and went back to Tirzah.
22. Asa ordered everyone in Judah to carry away the stones and wood Baasha had used to strengthen the town of Ramah. Then he used these same stones and wood to fortify the town of Geba in the territory of Benjamin and the town of Mizpah.
23. Everything else Asa did while he was king, including his victories and the towns he rebuilt, is written in The History of the Kings of Judah. When he got older, he had a foot disease.
24. Asa died and was buried in the tomb of his ancestors in Jerusalem. His son Jehoshaphat then became king.
25. Nadab son of Jeroboam became king of Israel in Asa's second year as king of Judah, and he ruled two years.
26. Nadab disobeyed the Lord by following the evil example of his father, who had caused the Israelites to sin.