1Ki 15 | TSK | STEP | Abijam's wicked reign. Asa succeeds him. Asa's good reign. The war between Baasha and him causes him to make a league with Bed-hadad. Jehoshaphat succeeds Asa. Nadab's wicked reign. Baasha conspiring against him, executes Ahijah's prophecy. Nadab's acts and death. Baasha's wicked reign.

there was war.Instead of Rehoboam fourteen MSS., the Arabic, and some copies of the Targum, read Abijam. The Syriac has "Abia, the son of Rehoboam;" and the Editio Princeps of the Vulgate has Abia. This is doubtless the true reading, as otherwise it would be an unnecessary repetition of ch. 14:30, and a repetition which interrupts the history of Abijah: (see 2 Ch 13:3, etc.)

14:30

the rest.

14:29; 2Ch 13:2,21,22

there was war.

2Ch 13:3-20

A.M. 3049. B.C. 955. Abijam.

14:1,31; 2Ch 14:1

Asa.

1Ch 3:9; Mt 1:7,8

A.M. 3049-3090. B.C. 955-914. mother's. that is,grandmother's.

2,13; 2Ch 11:20,21; 13:2

Asa.

3; 2Ch 14:2,11; 15:17; 16:7-10

the sodomites.

14:24; 22:46; Ro 1:26,27; Jude 1:7

all the idols.

3; 11:7,8; 14:23; 2Ch 14:2-5; Eze 20:18,19; Zec 1:2-6; 1Pe 1:18

Maachah.

2,10; 2Ch 15:15,16-19

his mother.

De 13:6-11; 33:9; Zec 13:3; Mt 10:37; 12:46-50; 2Co 5:16

Ga 2:5,6,14

destroyed. Heb. cut off.

Le 26:30; De 7:5; 2Ki 18:4; 23:12-15; 2Ch 34:4

and burnt.

Ex 32:20; De 9:21; Jos 6:24

the brook.

2Sa 15:23; 2Ki 23:6; Joh 18:1

Cedron.

the high places.

22:43; 2Ki 12:3; 14:4; 15:4; 2Ch 14:3,5

was perfect.

3; 8:61; 11:4; 2Ch 15:17,18; 16:9; 25:2

he brought.

7:51; 1Ch 26:26-28; 2Ch 14:13; 15:18

things. Heb. holy.

6,7,32; 14:30; 2Ch 16:1-6

A.M. 3074. B.C. 930. Baasha.

27; 2Ch 16:1-6

Ramah.By building Ramah is here meant fortifying it, in order to prevent all intercourse with the kingdom of Judah, lest his subjects should cleave to the house of David: for Ramah was a city of Benjamin, situated on the confines of both kingdoms, probably on a hill, as the name imports, commanding a narrow defile between the mountains, through which lay the principal road to Jerusalem; so that a fortification being erected here, no communication could be held between the people of Israel and Judah, without Baasha's permission.

21; Jos 18:25; 1Sa 15:34; Jer 31:15

he might not suffer.

12:27; 2Ch 11:13-17

Asa.

15; 14:26; 2Ki 12:18; 18:15,16; 2Ch 15:18; 16:2-6

Ben-hadad.

20:1-5,33,34; 2Ki 8:7-15

Damascus.

11:23,24; Ge 14:15; 15:2; Jer 49:27; Am 1:4

There is a league.

2Ch 19:2; Isa 31:1

break thy league.

2Sa 21:2; 2Ch 16:3; Eze 17:13-16; Ro 1:31; 3:8

depart. Heb. go up.

Ijon.Probably the same as Hazar-enan, a frontier town to Damascus, (Eze 48:1;) and perhaps the Inna of Coele-Syria, long. 68 degrees and a half, lat. 33 degrees, according to Ptolemy.

2Ki 15:29

Dan.

12:29; Ge 14:14; Jud 18:29

Abel-beth-maachah.

2Sa 20:14,15

Cinneroth.

Jos 11:2; 12:3

when Baasha.

2Ch 16:5

Tirzah.

14:17; 16:15-18; So 6:4

made a proclamation.

2Ch 16:6

exempted. Heb. free. Geba.

Gaba.

Mizpah.

Mizpeh.

rest of all.

in the time.

2Ch 16:12-14; Ps 90:10

A.M. 3090. B.C. 914. was buried.Of his splendid and costly funeral we read in 2 Ch 16:14.

Jehoshaphat.

22:41-43; 2Ch 17:1-9; Mt 1:8

Josaphat.

A.M. 3050-3051. B.C. 954-953. Nadab.

14:12,20

began to reign. Heb. reigned.

he did evil.

16:7,25,30

walked.

12:28-33; 13:33,34

in his sin.

30,34; 14:16; 16:19,26; 21:22; 22:52; Ge 20:9; Ex 32:21

1Sa 2:24; 2Ki 3:3; 21:11; 23:15; Jer 32:35; Ro 14:15; 1Co 8:10-13

Baasha the son.

16,17; 14:14

conspired.

16:9; 2Ki 12:20

Gibbethon.

16:15,17; Jos 19:44; 21:23

De 32:35

he left not.

14:9-16; 2Ki 9:7-10,36,37; 10:10,11,31; 19:25

the sins.

26; 14:9-16

by his provocation.

14:22

A.M. 3050-3051. B.C. 954-953. are they not written.

14:19; 16:5,14,20,27

A.M. 3051-3074. B.C. 953-930. there was war.That is, there was a constant spirit of hostility kept up between the two kingdoms, and no doubt frequent skirmishing between the bordering parties; but there was no open war till Baasha king of Israel began to build Ramah, which was, according to 2 Ch 15:19; 16:1, in the thirty-sixth year of Asa; but according to ch. 16:8, 9, his son was killed by Zimri in the twenty-sixth year of Asa, and consequently he could not make war upon him in the thirty-sixth year of his reign. Chronologers endeavour to reconcile this, by saying that the years should be reckoned, not from the beginning of Asa's reign, but from the separation of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. We must either adopt this mode of solution, or admit that there is a mistake in some of the numbers, probably in the parallel places in Chronicles, but which we have no direct means of correcting.

twenty and four years.

16:8

he did evil.

walked.

26; 12:28,29; 13:33,34; 14:16; Isa 1:4