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2 Chronicles 16:2-4
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2 Asa took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace and sent it to King Ben Hadad of Syria, ruler in Damascus, along with this message: 3 “I want to make a treaty with you, like the one our fathers made.[a] See, I have sent you silver and gold. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel, so he will retreat from my land.”[b] 4 Ben Hadad accepted King Asa’s offer and ordered his army commanders to attack the cities of Israel.[c] They conquered[d] Ijon, Dan, Abel Maim,[e] and all the storage cities of Naphtali.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 16:3 tn Heb “[May there be] a covenant between me and you [as there was] between my father and your father.”
  2. 2 Chronicles 16:3 tn Heb “so he will go up from upon me.”
  3. 2 Chronicles 16:4 tn Heb “and Ben Hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of the armies which belonged to him against the cities of Israel.”
  4. 2 Chronicles 16:4 tn Heb “They struck down.”
  5. 2 Chronicles 16:4 sn In the parallel passage in 1 Kgs 15:20, this city’s name appears as Abel Beth Maacah. These appear to be variant names for the same place.
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