2 Chronicles 16:6
Then Asa the king took all Judah with him. They carried away the stones and timbers of Ramah with which Baasha had been building up the city. Then King Asa used that building material to build up Geba and Mizpah.
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5It came about that when Baasha heard this, he stopped building up Ramah, and let his work cease.
Cross References
Joshua 15:38Dilean, Mizpah, Joktheel,
1 Samuel 7:6They gathered at Mizpah, drew water and poured it out before Yahweh. They fasted that day and said, “We have sinned against Yahweh.” It was there that Samuel decided disputes for the people of Israel and led the people.
1 Samuel 10:17Now Samuel called the people together before Yahweh at Mizpah.
1 Chronicles 6:60and from the tribe of Benjamin they were given Geba with its pasturelands, Alemeth with its pasturelands, and Anathoth with its pasturelands. All their cities numbered thirteen. 1 These towns were distributed among the clans of the Kohathite, thirteen in all.
Isaiah 10:29They have crossed over the pass and they lodge at Geba. 1 Ramah trembles and Gibeah of Saul has fled. 1
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 16:2-7
Asa's League with Benhadad. ( b. c. 929.) 1 In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah, and built Ramah, to the intent that he might let none go out or come in to Asa king of Judah. 2 Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of the Lord and of the king's house, and sent to Ben-hadad king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying, 3 There is a league between me and thee, as there was between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent… Read the whole commentary →