2tn Heb “[May there be] a covenant between me and you [as there was] between my father and your father.”

3tn Heb “so he will go up from upon me.”

4tn Heb “and Ben Hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of the armies which belonged to him against the cities of Israel.”

5tn Heb “They struck down.”

6sn In the parallel passage in 1 Kgs 15:20, this city’s name appears as Abel Beth Maacah. These appear to be variant names for the same place.

7tn Heb “building.”

8tn Heb “and he caused his work to cease.”

9tn Heb “and King Asa took all Judah and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its wood which Baasha had built.”

10tn Heb “and he built with them.”

11tn Heb “the seer.”

12tn Or “for.”

13tn Heb “the eyes of the Lord move quickly through all the earth.”

14tn Heb “to strengthen himself with their heart, [the one] complete toward him.”

15tn 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.”

16tn 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.”

17tn Heb “became sick in his feet.”

18tn Heb “unto upwards [i.e., very severe [was] his sickness, and even in his sickness he did not seek the Lord, only the healers.

19tn Heb “lay down with his fathers, and he died.”

20sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

21tn Heb “and they burned for him a large fire, very great.”