translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “and he built up Ramah so as to not permit going out or coming in to Asa king of Judah.”


text: Heb “[May there be] a covenant between me and you [as there was] between my father and your father.”


text: Heb “so he will go up from upon me.”


text: Heb “and Ben Hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of the armies which belonged to him against the cities of Israel.”


text: Heb “They struck down.”


text: Heb “building.”


text: Heb “and he caused his work to cease.”


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


text: Heb “and he built with them.”


text: Heb “the seer.”


text: Or “for.”


text: Heb “the eyes of the Lord move quickly through all the earth.”


text: Heb “to strengthen himself with their heart, [the one] complete toward him.”


text: Heb “and Asa was angry at the seer, and he put him [in] the house of stocks, because of his rage with him over this.”


text: Heb “Look, the events of Asa, the former and the latter, look, they are written on the scroll of the kings of Judah and Israel.”


text: Heb “lay down with his fathers, and he died.”


text: Heb “and they burned for him a large fire, very great.”