1 Kings 15:21

Left off building. Asa’s policy, though it succeeded in its immediate purpose of getting rid of the threat of Baasha, was hardly wise or proper. Asa should have put his trust once more in the Lord as he had done in the crisis when Zerah the Ethiopian invaded the land (2 Chron. 14:9-15). Regardless of the straits in which he found himself, Asa had no right to employ the treasures from the Lord’s Temple to purchase aid from a heathen king. For this matter he was rebuked by the prophet Hanani, but became angry and placed the prophet in prison (2 Chron. 16:7-10). Isaiah later uttered a similar rebuke to Israel because of reliance on Egypt rather than God (Isa. 30:1-17).