OET-RV GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
OET-RV 2 CHR Intro C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C25 C26 C27 C28 C29 C30 C31 C32 C33 C34 C35 C36
OET-RV CH2 16 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14
This OET Readers’ Version was designed to be used with the Literal Version alongside, so you won’t get the best understanding from this single viewpoint. This is still an early look into the drafted text of the Open English Translation of the Bible. Please double-check the text in advance before using in public.
16 In the thirty-sixth year of King Asa’s reign, Yisrael’s (Israel’s) king Baesha invaded Yehudah (Judah) and built Ramah to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the land controlled by Yehudah’s King Asa. 2 Asa took gold and silver from the temple treasuries and the king’s palace, and he sent it to King Ben-Hadad of Aram (Syria) (modern Aram), who lived in Damesek (Damascus), requesting, 3 “I want a peace treaty between you and me, and between your family and mine. Listen, I’ve sent gold and silver to you. Go and break your agreement with Yisrael’s King Baesha, so he’ll give up on his attack against me.”
4 Ben-Hadad accepted King Asa’s suggestion and sent his army captains to fight against Yisrael’s cities. They struck Iyon, Dan, and Avel-Mayim, and all the storehouses in the Naftali (Naphtali) cities. 5 When King Baesha heard about that, he stopped fortifying Ramah and abandoned the project, 6 so King Asa took men there from Yehudah. They carried away all the building stones from Ramah, along with the timber which Baesha had been using, and used it all to build Geva and Mitspah (north of Yerushalem (Jerusalem) ).
7 At that time, the prophet Hanani went to Yehudah’s (Judah’s) King Asa and told him, “Because you relied on the king of Aram (Syria) rather than on your god Yahweh, the Aramean king’s army has escaped from being defeated by you. 8 Didn’t the Kushim and the Luvim (Libyans) have a vast number of chariots and horsemen? Yet because you relied on Yahweh, he helped you defeat them, 9 because Yahweh sees everything that’s happening all over the world, and he strengthens the people who trust him completely. You’ve been foolish in what you’ve just done, so from now on, you’ll be facing wars.” 10 But King Asa was angry at the prophet, very angry, and had him put in prison, and after that Asa oppressed some of his people.
11 All of Asa’s projects from the beginning of his reign to the end are written in the scroll about the kings of Yehudah (Judah) and Yisrael (Israel). 12 King Asa got a disease that started in his feet in the thirty-ninth year of his reign. Even as it got worse, he didn’t try to get Yahweh to help him, only doctors. 13 Then Asa died in the forty-first year of his reign, 14 and he was buried in the tomb that he’d had carved out in ‘The City of David’. They laid his corpse on a bed of prepared spices and perfumes that had been mixed ready. Then they lit a large bonfire in his honour.
OET-RV 2 CHR Intro C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C25 C26 C27 C28 C29 C30 C31 C32 C33 C34 C35 C36