1Ki 15:16-22 | TSK

1 Kings 15:16-22

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

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.