1 Kings 15:16

Now there was war between Asa and Baasha, king of Israel, all their days.

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And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

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15He took into the house of the Lord all the things which his father had made holy, and those which he himself had made holy, silver and gold and vessels.

17And Baasha, king of Israel, went up against Judah, building Ramah, so that no one was able to go out or in to Asa, king of Judah.

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Cross References

1 Kings 14:30And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.

1 Kings 15:32And there was war between Asa and Baasha, king of Israel, all their days.

2 Chronicles 16:1In the thirty-sixth year of the rule of Asa, Baasha, king of Israel, went up against Judah, building Ramah so that no one was able to go out or in to Asa, king of Judah.

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 →

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