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When Baasha heard the news, he stopped fortifying Ramah and abandoned his work on it.

Then King Asa took everyone in Judah to Ramah. He made them carry the stones and lumber from Ramah. Baasha had been using those to fortify the city. Asa used the materials to fortify Geba in Benjamin and Mizpah.

At that time the seer[a] Hanani came to King Asa of Judah and said to him, “Because you depended on the king of Syria and did not depend on Yahweh your Elohim, the army of the king of Aram has escaped your grasp.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 16:7 A seer is a prophet.

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