1 Kings 15:21

And it came to pass, when Ba'sha heard this, that he left off the building of Ramah, and remained in Tirzah.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.

In Context

20And Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Assa, and sent the captains of the armies which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote 'Iyon, and Dan, and Abel-beth-ma'achah, and the whole of Kinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

22Then king Assa called together by proclamation all Judah, none being exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and its timber, wherewith Ba'sha had built; and king Assa built with them Geba' of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

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Cross References

1 Kings 15:17And Ba'sha the king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, in order not to suffer any one to go out or come in to Assa the king of Judah.

2 Chronicles 16:5And it came to pass, when Ba'sha heard this, that he left off the building of Ramah, and stopped his work.

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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