1 Kings 15:17

And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, so that no one should go out or come in for Asa king of Judah.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

In Context

16And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

18And Asa took all the silver and the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and gave them into the hands of his servants; and King Asa sent them out to the son of Hadad, the son of Tabrimmon son of Hezion king of Syria, who dwelt in Damascus, saying,

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Cross References

1 Samuel 15:34And Samuel departed to Ramah, and Saul went up to his house at Gibeah.

1 Kings 15:21And it came to pass when Baasha heard it, that he left off building Ramah, and returned to Tirzah.

2 Chronicles 11:13And the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel were gathered to him out of all the coasts.

Jeremiah 31:15Moab is ruined, even his city, and his choice young men have gone down to slaughter.

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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