1 Kings 15:17
And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
16And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
Cross References
1 Samuel 15:34Then Samuel went to Ramah, and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.
1 Kings 15:21And it came to pass, when Baasha heard of it, that he left off building Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
2 Chronicles 11:13And the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their border.
Jeremiah 31:15Thus says LORD: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping. Rachel weeping for her children, she refused to be comforted for her children, because they are not.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 15:10-25
Asa's Reign. ( b. c. 914.) 9 And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah. 10 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. 11 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord , as did David his father. 12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. 13 And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a… Read the whole commentary →