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And Asa made prayer to the Lord his God and said, Lord, you only are able to give help against the strong to him who has no strength; come to our help, O Lord our God, for our hope is in you, and in your name we have come out against this great army. O L

הֶהָמ֖וֹן (הֶ) he. “the”הַזֶּ֑ה (הַ) ha. “<the>”

So the Lord sent fear on the Ethiopians before Asa and Judah; and the Ethiopians went in flight.

הַכּוּשִׁ֔ים (הַ) ha. “the”הַכּוּשִֽׁים׃ (הַ) ha. “the”

And Asa and the people who were with him went after them as far as Gerar; and so great was the destruction among the Ethiopians that they were not able to get their army together again, for they were broken before the Lord and before his army; and they t

וְהָעָ֣ם (הָ) ha. “the”

And they overcame all the towns round Gerar, because the Lord sent fear on them; and they took away their goods from the towns, for there were stores of wealth in them.

הֶֽעָרִים֙ (הֶֽ) he. “the”הֶ֣עָרִ֔ים (הֶ֣) he. “the”

In those times there was no peace for him who went out or for him who came in, but great trouble was on all the people of the lands.

הָהֵ֔ם (הָ) ha. “<the>”הָאֲרָצֽוֹת׃ (הָ) ha. “the”

And Asa, hearing these words of Azariah, the son of Oded the prophet, took heart and put away all the disgusting things out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the towns which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and he made new a

הַדְּבָרִ֣ים (הַ) ha. “the”הָאֵ֗לֶּה (הָ) ha. “<the>”וְהַנְּבוּאָה֮ (הַ) ha. “the”הַנָּבִיא֒ (הַ) ha. “the”הַשִּׁקּוּצִים֙ (הַ) ha. “the”הֶ֣עָרִ֔ים (הֶ֣) he. “the”

And he got together all Judah and Benjamin and those of Ephraim and Manasseh and Simeon who were living with them; for numbers of them came to him out of Israel when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.

וְהַגָּרִים֙ (הַ) ha. “those”

So they came together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the rule of Asa.

הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֑י (הַ) ha. “<the>”

And that day they made offerings to the Lord of the things they had taken in war, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.

הַה֔וּא (הַ) ha. “<the>”הַשָּׁלָ֖ל (הַ) ha. “the”

And all Judah was glad because of the oath, for they had taken it with all their heart, turning to the Lord with all their desire; and he was with them and gave them rest on every side.

הַשְּׁבוּעָ֗ה (הַ) ha. “the”

And Asa would not let Maacah, his mother, be queen, because she had made a disgusting image for Asherah; and Asa had her image cut down and broken up and burned by the stream Kidron.

הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ (הַ) ha. “the”

But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.

וְהַ֨בָּמ֔וֹת (הַ֨) Ha. “the”

He took into the house of God all the things which his father had made holy and those which he himself had made holy, silver and gold and vessels.

הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים (הָ) ha. “<the>”

In the thirty-sixth year of the rule of Asa, Baasha, king of Israel, went up against Judah, building Ramah so that no one was able to go out or in to Asa, king of Judah.

הָרָמָ֑ה (הָ) ha. “<the>”

Then Asa took silver and gold out of the stores of the Lord's house and of the king's store-house, and sent to Ben-hadad, king of Aram, at Damascus, saying,

הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ (הַ) ha. “the”הַיּוֹשֵׁ֥ב (הַ) hai. “who”

And Ben-hadad did as King Asa said, and sent the captains of his armies against the towns of Israel, attacking Ijon and Dan and Abel-maim, and all the store-towns of Naphtali.

הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ (הַ) ha. “the”הַחֲיָלִ֤ים (הַ) ha. “the”

Then Baasha, hearing of it, put a stop to the building of Ramah, and let his work come to an end.

הָרָמָ֑ה (הָ) ha. “<the>”

Then King Asa, with all Judah, took away the stones and wood with which Baasha was building Ramah, and he made use of them for building Geba and Mizpah.

הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ (הַ) ha. “the”הָֽרָמָה֙ (הָֽ) ha. “<the>”הַמִּצְפָּֽה׃ (הַ) ha. “<the>”

At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa, king of Judah, and said to him, Because you have put your faith in the king of Aram and not in the Lord your God, the army of the king of Aram has got away out of your hands.

הַהִ֗יא (הַ) ha. “<the>”הָרֹאֶ֔ה (הָ) ha. “the”

Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim a very great army, with war-carriages and horsemen more than might be numbered? but because your faith was in the Lord, he gave them up into your hands.

הַכּוּשִׁ֣ים (הַ) ha. “the”וְהַלּוּבִ֗ים (הַ) ha. “the”

For the eyes of the Lord go this way and that, through all the earth, letting it be seen that he is the strong support of those whose hearts are true to him. In this you have done foolishly, for from now you will have wars.

הָאָ֙רֶץ֙ (הָ) ha. “the”

Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in prison, burning with wrath against him because of this thing. And at the same time Asa was cruel to some of the people.

הָרֹאֶ֗ה (הָ) ha. “the”הַמַּהְפֶּ֔כֶת (הַ) ha. “the”הָעָ֖ם (הָ) ha. “the”הַהִֽיא׃ (הַ) ha. “<the>”

Now the acts of Asa, first and last, are recorded in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

הָרִאשׁוֹנִ֖ים (הָ) ha. “<the>”וְהָאַחֲרוֹנִ֑ים (הָ) ha. “<the>”הַמְּלָכִ֔ים (הַ) ha. “the”

He put forces in all the walled towns of Judah, and responsible chiefs in the land of Judah and in the towns of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.

הַבְּצֻר֑וֹת (הַ) ha. “<the>”

And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he went in the early ways of his father, not turning to the Baals,

הָרִ֣אשֹׁנִ֔ים (הָ) ha. “<the>”