1 Kings 15:17
And 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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16Now 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 in Gibeah, in the land of Saul.
1 Kings 15:21And Baasha, hearing of it, put a stop to the building of Ramah, and was living in Tirzah.
2 Chronicles 11:13And the priests and Levites who were in all Israel came together to him from every part of their country.
Jeremiah 31:15So has the Lord said: In Ramah there is a sound of crying, weeping and bitter sorrow; Rachel weeping for her children; she will not be comforted for their loss.
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 →