1Ki 15:16-17, 31, 33, 2Ch 16:1 | TSK

1 Kings 15:16-17

A.M. 3074. B.C. 930. Baasha.

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

1 Kings 15:31

A.M. 3050-3051. B.C. 954-953. are they not written.

14:19; 16:5,14,20,27

1 Kings 15:33

twenty and four years.

16:8

2 Chronicles 16:1

1 Asa, by the aid of the Syrians, diverts Baasha from building Ramah.

7 Being reproved thereof by Hanani, he puts him in prison.

11 Among his other acts in his disease he seeks not to God, but to the physicians.

13 His death and burial.

A.M. 3074. B.C. 930. In the six.See Note on 1 Ki 15:32. "From the rending of the ten tribes from Judah, over which Asa was now king."

1Ki 15:16-22

to the intent.

11:13-17; 15:5,9; 1Ki 12:27