14:016:007 And at that time Hanani the seer came to
Asa king of Judah,
and
said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king
of
Syria,
and not relied on the lord thy God, therefore
is the
host
of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand.
14:016:008 Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims
a huge host, with very
many
chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely
on
the
lord, he delivered them into thine hand.
14:016:009 For the eyes of the lord run to and
fro throughout the whole
earth,
to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose
heart
is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly:
therefore
from henceforth thou shalt have wars.
14:016:010 Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put
him in a prison
house;
for he was in a rage with him because of this thing.
And
Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.
14:016:011 And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and
last, lo, they are
written
in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
14:016:012 And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of
his reign was diseased
in
his feet, until his disease was exceeding great:
yet in his
disease
he sought not to the lord, but to the physicians.
14:016:013 And Asa slept with his fathers, and died
in the one and
fortieth
year of his reign.
14:016:014 And they buried him in his own sepulchres,
which he had made
for
himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed
which
was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices
prepared
by the apothecaries’ art: and they made
a very great
burning
for him.
14:017:001 And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his
stead, and strengthened
himself
against Israel.
14:017:002 And he placed forces in all the fenced
cities of Judah, and
set
garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of
Ephraim,
which Asa his father had taken.
14:017:003 And the lord was with Jehoshaphat,
because he walked in the
first
ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;
14:017:004 But sought to the Lord God of his father,
and walked in his
commandments,
and not after the doings of Israel.
14:017:005 Therefore the lord stablished the
kingdom in his hand; and all
Judah
brought to Jehoshaphat presents; and he had riches
and
honour
in abundance.
14:017:006 And his heart was lifted up in the ways
of the lord: moreover
he
took away the high places and groves out of Judah.
14:017:007 Also in the third year of his reign he
sent to his princes,
even
to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to
Nethaneel,
and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah.


