1Ki 15:13-24 | TSK | STEP | Maachah. his mother. destroyed. Heb. cut off. and burnt. the brook. Cedron.

Ramah.By building Ramah is here meant fortifying it, in order to prevent all intercourse with the kingdom of Judah, lest his subjects should cleave to the house of David: for Ramah was a city of Benjamin, situated on the confines of both kingdoms, probably on a hill, as the name imports, commanding a narrow defile between the mountains, through which lay the principal road to Jerusalem; so that a fortification being erected here, no communication could be held between the people of Israel and Judah, without Baasha's permission.

21; Jos 18:25; 1Sa 15:34; Jer 31:15

he might not suffer.

12:27; 2Ch 11:13-17

Asa.

15; 14:26; 2Ki 12:18; 18:15,16; 2Ch 15:18; 16:2-6

Ben-hadad.

20:1-5,33,34; 2Ki 8:7-15

Damascus.

11:23,24; Ge 14:15; 15:2; Jer 49:27; Am 1:4

There is a league.

2Ch 19:2; Isa 31:1

break thy league.

2Sa 21:2; 2Ch 16:3; Eze 17:13-16; Ro 1:31; 3:8

depart. Heb. go up.

Ijon.Probably the same as Hazar-enan, a frontier town to Damascus, (Eze 48:1;) and perhaps the Inna of Coele-Syria, long. 68 degrees and a half, lat. 33 degrees, according to Ptolemy.

2Ki 15:29

Dan.

12:29; Ge 14:14; Jud 18:29

Abel-beth-maachah.

2Sa 20:14,15

Cinneroth.

Jos 11:2; 12:3

when Baasha.

2Ch 16:5

Tirzah.

14:17; 16:15-18; So 6:4

made a proclamation.