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 16:6

16:6 King Asa ordered all the men of Judah to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah. ⁴  He used the materials to build up ⁵  Geba and Mizpah.

2 Chronicles 22:6

22:6 Joram ⁶  returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians ⁷  in Ramah when he fought against King Hazael of Syria. Ahaziah ⁸  son of King Jehoram of Judah went down to visit Joram son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he had been wounded. ⁹ 

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

⁶ tn Heb “and he built with them.”

⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Joram) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn Heb “which the Syrians inflicted [on] him.”

⁹ tc Most Hebrew mss read “Azariah.” A few Hebrew mss, the LXX, Vulgate, and Syriac read “Ahaziah” (cf. 2 Kgs 8:29).

¹⁰ tn Heb “because he was sick,” presumably referring to the wounds he received in the battle with the Syrians.