2 Chronicles 16:3-6

16:3 “I want to make a treaty with you, like the one our fathers made. ¹  See, I have sent you silver and gold. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel, so he will retreat from my land.” ²  16:4 Ben Hadad accepted King Asa’s offer and ordered his army commanders to attack the cities of Israel. ³  They conquered ⁴  Ijon, Dan, Abel Maim, ⁵  and all the storage cities of Naphtali. 16:5 When Baasha heard the news, he stopped fortifying ⁶  Ramah and abandoned the project. ⁷  16:6 King Asa ordered all the men of Judah to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah. ⁸  He used the materials to build up ⁹  Geba and Mizpah.

¹ tn Heb “[May there be] a covenant between me and you [as there was] between my father and your father.”

² tn Heb “so he will go up from upon me.”

³ tn Heb “and Ben Hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of the armies which belonged to him against the cities of Israel.”

⁴ tn Heb “They struck down.”

⁵ sn In the parallel passage in 1 Kgs 15:20, this city’s name appears as Abel Beth Maacah. These appear to be variant names for the same place.

⁵ tn Heb “building.”

⁶ tn Heb “and he caused his work to cease.”

⁷ tn Heb “and King Asa took all Judah and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its wood which Baasha had built.”

⁸ tn Heb “and he built with them.”