²¹ When Baasha heard this, he stopped building Ramah^(A) and withdrew to Tirzah.^{(B) 22} Then King Asa issued an order to all Judah—no one was exempt—and they carried away from Ramah^(C) the stones and timber Baasha had been using there. With them King Asa^(D) built up Geba^(E) in Benjamin, and also Mizpah.^(F)

²³ As for all the other events of Asa’s reign, all his achievements, all he did and the cities he built, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah? In his old age, however, his feet became diseased.