2 Chronicles 16:5-6
Context16:5 When Baasha heard the news, he stopped fortifying 1 Ramah and abandoned the project. 2 16:6 King Asa ordered all the men of Judah to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah. 3 He used the materials to build up 4 Geba and Mizpah.
2 Chronicles 16:1
Context16:1 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. 5
2 Chronicles 22:6
Context22:6 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


[16:5] 2 tn Heb “and he caused his work to cease.”
[16:6] 3 tn Heb “and King Asa took all Judah and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its wood which Baasha had built.”
[16:6] 4 tn Heb “and he built with them.”
[16:1] 5 tn Heb “and he built up Ramah so as to not permit going out or coming in to Asa king of Judah.”
[22:6] 7 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Joram) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[22:6] 8 tn Heb “which the Syrians inflicted [on] him.”
[22:6] 9 tc Most Hebrew
[22:6] 10 tn Heb “because he was sick,” presumably referring to the wounds he received in the battle with the Syrians.