14. But the high places were not all removed, even though Asa’s heart was wholly devoted to the Lord all his days.
15. He brought into the house of the Lord the things that both his father and he himself had dedicated, the silver and gold and cups.
16. There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
17. Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and fortified Ramah so he could prevent anyone from going out or coming in to Asa king of Judah.
18. Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the Lord, as well as the treasures of the king’s house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants, and he sent them to Ben-Hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Aram, who lived at Damascus, saying,
19. “There is a treaty between me and you and between my father and your father. I have sent to you a present of silver and gold. Come and break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, so he will depart from me.”
20. So Ben-Hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel and conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel Beth Maakah, and all Kinnereth, along with all the land of Naphtali.
21. When Baasha heard about it, he halted the fortification of Ramah and moved to Tirzah.
22. Then King Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah—none was exempted—and they took away the stones of Ramah and the timber with which Baasha had built, and King Asa used them to build Geba of Benjamin as well as Mizpah.
23. The rest of all the acts of Asa and all his might and all that he did and the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? When he was old, he got a disease in his feet.
24. Asa then slept with his fathers and was buried with them in the city of his father David, and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place.