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2 Chronicles 16:2

2 Chronicles 16:2
Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent to Benhadad king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,

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Matthew Henry

2 Chronicles 16:1-6

How to reconcile the date of this event with the history of the kings I am quite at a loss. Baasha died in the twenty-sixth year of Asa, Kg1 16:8. How then could this be done in his thirty-sixth year,…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

silver and gold In 1 Kin., "all the silver and the gold that were left."

Ben-hadad At least three kings of Syria bore this name, the two others being severally (1) a contemporary of Ahab (1Ki 20:1…

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