20. Benhadad did what King Asa requested. He sent his generals and their armies to attack the cities of Israel. He conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel Beth Maacah, and the entire area around Chinneroth with the entire territory of Naphtali.
21. When Baasha heard the news, he stopped fortifying Ramah and lived in Tirzah.
22. Then King Asa drafted everyone in Judah and excused no one. He made them carry the stones and lumber from Ramah. Baasha had been using those to fortify the city. King Asa used the materials to fortify Geba in Benjamin and Mizpah.
23. Isn’t everything else about Asa—all his heroic acts, everything he did, and the cities he fortified—written in the official records of the kings of Judah? But when he was old, he had a foot disease.
24. Asa lay down in death with his ancestors. He was buried with his ancestors in the city of his ancestor, David. His son Jehoshaphat succeeded him as king.
25. Nadab, son of Jer o boam, began to rule Israel in Asa’s second year as king of Judah. He ruled for two years.
26. He did what the Lord considered evil, living as his father did, leading Israel into the same sins.
27. Then Baasha, son of Ahijah from the tribe of Issachar, plotted against Nadab. Baasha assassinated him in the Philistine city of Gibbethon while Nadab and the Israelite forces were attacking it.
28. The assassination happened in Asa’s third year as king of Judah. Baasha succeeded Nadab as king of Israel.