The Holy Bible

Second Chronicles 16 records how, in Asa's thirty-sixth year, Baasha king of Israel built Ramah to blockade Judah, so Asa took silver and gold from the temple and palace treasuries and bribed Ben-hadad king of Syria to break his treaty with Baasha and attack Israel's cities. The prophet Hanani rebukes Asa for relying on the king of Syria instead of the Lord, reminding him how God had delivered vast armies in the past, and declares that from now on he will have wars; in anger Asa imprisons the prophet. The chapter closes with Asa afflicted with a severe disease in his feet in his thirty-ninth year, seeking the physicians rather than the Lord, dying in his forty-first year and being buried with great honor in the city of David.