Asa

All 25 verses in 2 Chronicles, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

2 Chronicles

• 2 Chronicles 14:1

  Then Abijah rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David. And his son Asa reigned in his place, and in his days the land was at peace for ten years.

• 2 Chronicles 14:2

  And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God.

• 2 Chronicles 14:8

  Asa had an army of 300,000 men from Judah bearing large shields and spears, and 280,000 men from Benjamin bearing small shields and drawing the bow. All these were mighty men of valor.

• 2 Chronicles 14:10

  So Asa marched out against him and lined up in battle formation in the Valley of Zephathah near Mareshah.

• 2 Chronicles 14:11

  Then Asa cried out to the LORD his God: “O LORD, there is no one besides You to help the powerless against the mighty. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on You, and in Your name we have come against this multitude. O LORD, You are our God. Do not let a mere mortal prevail against You.”

• 2 Chronicles 14:12

  So the LORD struck down the Cushites before Asa and Judah, and the Cushites fled.

• 2 Chronicles 14:13

  Then Asa and his army pursued them as far as Gerar. The Cushites fell and could not recover, for they were crushed before the LORD and His army. So the people of Judah carried off a great amount of plunder

• 2 Chronicles 15:2

  So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

• 2 Chronicles 15:8

  When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He then restored the altar of the LORD that was in front of the portico of the LORD’s temple.

• 2 Chronicles 15:10

  So they gathered together in Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign.

• 2 Chronicles 15:16

  King Asa also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole, crushed it, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

• 2 Chronicles 15:17

  The high places were not removed from Israel, but Asa’s heart was fully devoted all his days.

• 2 Chronicles 15:19

  And there was no war until the thirty-fifth year of Asa’s reign.

• 2 Chronicles 16:1

  In the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and fortified Ramah to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the territory of Asa king of Judah.

• 2 Chronicles 16:2

  So Asa withdrew the silver and gold from the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he sent it with this message to Ben-hadad king of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus:

• 2 Chronicles 16:4

  And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, conquering Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.

• 2 Chronicles 16:6

  Then King Asa brought all the men of Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timbers Baasha had used for building. And with these materials he built up Geba and Mizpah.

• 2 Chronicles 16:7

  At that time Hanani the seer came to King Asa of Judah and told him, “Because you have relied on the king of Aram and not on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped from your hand.

• 2 Chronicles 16:10

  Asa was angry with the seer and became so enraged over this matter that he put the man in prison. And at the same time Asa oppressed some of the people.

• 2 Chronicles 16:11

  Now the rest of the acts of Asa, from beginning to end, are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 16:12

  In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa became diseased in his feet, and his malady became increasingly severe. Yet even in his illness he did not seek the LORD, but only the physicians.

• 2 Chronicles 16:13

  So in the forty-first year of his reign, Asa died and rested with his fathers.

• 2 Chronicles 17:2

  He stationed troops in every fortified city of Judah and put garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had captured.

• 2 Chronicles 20:32

  And Jehoshaphat walked in the way of his father Asa and did not turn away from it; he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD.

• 2 Chronicles 21:12

  Then a letter came to Jehoram from Elijah the prophet, which stated: “This is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘You have not walked in the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or of Asa king of Judah,

Events the dataset lists Asa as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

1. c. 956 BC
   Reign of Asa1 Kings 15:9–24 · at Jerusalem
2. c. 914 BC
   Death of Asa1 Kings 15:24 · at Jerusalem

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.