| II Chronicles 16:3
| There is a league between me and thee, as there was between my father and thy father, wherefore I have sent thee silver and gold, that thou mayst break thy league with Baasa, king of Israel, and make him depart from me.
| There is, Hebrew is indeterminate: "a league," etc. Septuagint, "Make a league....behold I have sent thee gold and silver. Come and drive away from me Baasa, king," etc. --- That. Protestants, "go, break thy league." (Haydock) --- Asa induces the king of Damascus to act perfidiously. (Calmet) --- Otherwise it is not unlawful to make use of the arms of infidels, unless where God has forbidden it. (Grotius, Jur. 2:15, 9.) (Masius in Jos. 9:15.) --- David had recourse to Achis, and the Machabees to the Romans. (Calmet) --- Some kings are blamed for making leagues with the princes of Israel, because they had been warned to the contrary; and Asa was severely reprehended, as he had already received such assurances of the divine protection, (chap. 14:12., and 15:7.) that nothing but pusillanimity could have induced him (Haydock) to give away the sacred treasures, in order to obtain this aid of the Syrian king, ver. 7.
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