◄ 2 Chronicles 16:6 ►
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Good News Translation
Then King Asa gathered men from throughout Judah and had them carry off the stones and timbers that Baasha had been using at Ramah, and they used them to fortify the cities of Geba and Mizpah.

New Revised Standard Version
Then King Asa brought all Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber, with which Baasha had been building, and with them he built up Geba and Mizpah.

Contemporary English Version
Asa ordered everyone in Judah to carry away the stones and wood Baasha had used to fortify Ramah. Then he fortified the towns of Geba and Mizpah with these same stones and wood.

New American Bible
Then King Asa commandeered all Judah and they carried away the stones and beams with which Baasha was fortifying Ramah. With them he fortified Geba and Mizpah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then king Asa took all Juda, and they carried away from Rama the stones, and the timber that Baasa had prepared for the building: and he built with them Gabaa, and Maspha.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then king Asa took all Juda, and they carried away from Rama the stones, and the timber that Baasa had prepared for the building: and he built with them Gabaa, and Maspha.

they carried

1 Kings 15:22 But king Asa sent word into all Juda, saying: Let no man be excused: and they took away the stones from Rama, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasa had been building, and with them king Asa built Gabaa of Benjamin, and Maspha.

Geba

Joshua 18:24-26 The town Emona and Ophni and Gabee: twelve cities, and their villages. . . .

Gaba

2 Chronicles 21:17 And they came up into the land of Juda, and wasted it, and they carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, his sons also, and his wives: so that there was no son left him but Joachaz, who was the youngest.

1 Chronicles 6:60 And out of the tribe of Benjamin: Gabee and its suburbs, Almath with its suburbs, Anathoth also with its suburbs: all their cities throughout their families were thirteen.

Isaiah 10:29 They have passed in haste, Gaba is our lodging: Rama was astonished, Gabaath of Saul fled away.

Zechariah 14:10 And all the land shall return even to the desert, from the hill to Remmon to the south of Jerusalem: and she shall be exalted, and shall dwell in her own place, from the gate of Benjamin even to the place of the former gate, and even to the gate of the corners: and from the tower of Hananeel even to the king's winepresses.

Mizpah

Joshua 15:38 Delean and Masepha and Jecthel,

Joshua 18:26 And Mesphe, and Caphara, and Amosa,

1 Samuel 7:6,16 And they gathered together to Masphath, and they drew water, and poured it out before the Lord, and they fasted on that day, and they said there: We have sinned against the Lord. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Masphath. . . .

1 Samuel 10:17 And Samuel called together the people to the Lord in Maspha:

Mizpeh

Context
War Between Asa and Baasha
…5And when Baasa heard of it, he left off the building of Rama, and interrupted his work. 6Then king Asa took all Juda, and they carried away from Rama the stones, and the timber that Baasa had prepared for the building: and he built with them Gabaa, and Maspha.
Cross References
1 Kings 15:16
And there was war between Asa, and Baasa, king of Israel, all their days.

2 Chronicles 16:5
And when Baasa heard of it, he left off the building of Rama, and interrupted his work.

2 Chronicles 16:7
At that time Hanani the prophet came to Asa king of Juda, and said to him: Because thou hast had confidence in the king of Syria, and not in the Lord thy God, therefore hath the army of the king of Syria escaped out of thy hand.

Jeremiah 40:6
And Jeremiah went to Godolias the son of Ahicam to Masphath: and dwelt with him in the midst of the people that were left in the land.

2 Chronicles 16:5
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