2Ch 16:1
16:1 In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa {a}
     Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah, and built {b}
     Ramah, to the intent that he might let none go out or come
     in to Asa king of Judah.

     (a) Who reigned after Nadab the son of Jeroboam.
     (b) He fortified it with walls and ditches: it was a city
         in Benjamin near Gibeon.

2Ch 16:3
16:3 [There is] a league between me and thee, as [there was]
     between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee
     silver and gold; go, {c} break thy league with Baasha king
     of Israel, that he may depart from me.

     (c) He thought to repulse his adversary by an unlawful
         means, that is, by seeking help from infidels, as they
         who seek the help of Turks, thinking by it to make
         themselves stronger.

2Ch 16:10
16:10 Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison
      house; for [he was] {d} in a rage with him because of this
      [thing]. And Asa oppressed [some] of the people the same
      time.

      (d) Thus instead of turning to God in repentance, he
          disdained the admonition of the prophet, and punished
          him, as the wicked do when they are told of their
          faults.

2Ch 16:12
16:12 And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was
      diseased in his feet, until his disease [was] {e}
      exceeding [great]: yet in his disease he sought not to the
      LORD, but to the {f} physicians.

      (e) God plagued his rebellion and by this declared that it
          is nothing to begin well, unless we continue to the
          end, that is, zealous of God's glory and put our whole
          trust in him.
      (f) He shows that it is useless to seek the physicians
          unless we first seek God to purge our sins, which are
          the chief cause of all our diseases, and later use the
          help of the physicians as a means by which God works.



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