¹In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

¹V šestintridesetem letu Asovega kraljevanja pride gori Baasa, kralj Izraelov, proti Judi in sezida Ramo, da bi nihče ne mogel hoditi sem ali tja od strani Asa, kralja Judovega.

²Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of Yahweh and of the king’s house, and sent to Ben Hadad king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying,

²Tedaj pobere Asa srebro in zlato iz zakladnic hiše GOSPODOVE in hiše kraljeve ter pošlje k Ben-hadadu, kralju sirskemu, ki je prebival v Damasku, in sporoči:

³“Let there be a treaty between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. Behold, I have sent you silver and gold. Go, break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.”

³Zaveza je med menoj in teboj, kakor je bila med mojim in tvojim očetom; glej, pošiljam ti srebra in zlata; pojdi, razderi zavezo svojo z Baasom, kraljem Izraelovim, da se umakne od mene.

⁴Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they struck Ijon, and Dan, and Abel Maim, and all the storage cities of Naphtali.

⁴In Ben-hadad je ugodil kralju Asu in pošlje vojsk svojih poveljnike zoper mesta Izraelova, in udarijo Ijon, Dan in Abel-maim in vsa mesta Neftalijeva, v katerih so bila skladišča.

⁵It happened, when Baasha heard of it, that he left off building Ramah, and let his work cease.

⁵In ko je Baasa slišal o tem, je nehal zidati Ramo in opustil delo svoje.

⁶Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and its timber, with which Baasha had built; and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah.

⁶Tedaj vzame Asa vse Judovce in jim veli odnesti od Rame kamenje in les, s katerim je gradil Baasa; in sezidali so s tem Gebo in Micpo.

⁷At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him, “Because you have relied on the king of Syria, and have not relied on Yahweh your God, therefore is the army of the king of Syria escaped out of your hand.

⁷In tisti čas pride Hanani, videc, k Asu, kralju Judovemu, in mu reče: Ker si se opiral na kralja sirskega in se nisi zanašal na GOSPODA, Boga svojega, zato je sirskega kralja vojna moč ubežala tvoji roki.

⁸Weren’t the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge army, with chariots and horsemen exceeding many? Yet, because you relied on Yahweh, he delivered them into your hand.

⁸Niso li imeli Etiopci in Lubimi velikanske vojske in jako mnogo voz in konjikov? Vendar, ker si se opiral ob GOSPODA, ti jih je dal v roko.

⁹For the eyes of Yahweh run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein you have done foolishly; for from henceforth you shall have wars.”

⁹Zakaj oči GOSPODOVE gledajo po vsej zemlji, da se izkaže močnega pri teh, katerih srce je nerazdeljeno proti njemu. V tem si nespametno storil, kajti poslej boš imel vojne.

¹⁰Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.

¹⁰In Asa se razsrdi nad vidcem in ga dene v ječo; kajti jezen je bil nad njim za to reč. In Asa je tisti čas delal silo nekaterim iz ljudstva.

¹¹Behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

¹¹In glej, zgodbe Asove, prve in poslednje, zapisane so v knjigi kraljev Judovih in Izraelovih.

¹²In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet; his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he didn’t seek Yahweh, but to the physicians.

¹²V devetintridesetem letu svojega kraljevanja je pa zbolel Asa na nogah, in bolezen njegova je bila silno huda. A tudi v svoji bolezni ni iskal GOSPODA, ampak zdravnikov.

¹³Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.

¹³In legel je Asa k očetom svojim in umrl v štiridesetem in prvem letu kraljevanja svojega.In pokopali so ga v njegovem grobu, ki si ga je izsekal v mestu Davidovem, položivši ga na ležišče njegovo, ki je bilo napolnjeno z dišečim kadilom in različnimi dišavami, narejenimi na lekarnarski način; in so zanj napravili silno velik ogenj.

¹⁴They buried him in his own tombs, which he had dug out for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers’ art: and they made a very great burning for him.

¹⁴In pokopali so ga v njegovem grobu, ki si ga je izsekal v mestu Davidovem, položivši ga na ležišče njegovo, ki je bilo napolnjeno z dišečim kadilom in različnimi dišavami, narejenimi na lekarnarski način; in so zanj napravili silno velik ogenj.