2 Chronicles 16:5

16:5 When Baasha heard the news, he stopped fortifying ¹  Ramah and abandoned the project. ² 

2 Chronicles 16:1

16:1 In the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign, King Baasha of Israel attacked Judah, and he established Ramah as a military outpost to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the land of King Asa of Judah. ³ 

2 Chronicles 16:3

16:3 “I want to make a treaty with you, like the one our fathers made. ⁴  See, I have sent you silver and gold. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel, so he will retreat from my land.” ⁵ 

2 Chronicles 16:6

16:6 King Asa ordered all the men of Judah to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah. ⁶  He used the materials to build up ⁷  Geba and Mizpah.

¹ tn Heb “building.”

² tn Heb “and he caused his work to cease.”

³ tn Heb “and he built up Ramah so as to not permit going out or coming in to Asa king of Judah.”

⁵ tn Heb “[May there be] a covenant between me and you [as there was] between my father and your father.”

⁶ tn Heb “so he will go up from upon me.”

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.”