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1 Kings 15:21

in 1 Kings 15

When Baasha learned of this, he stopped fortifying Ramah and withdrew to Tirzah.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

This verse in 1 Kings 15

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Dwelt in Tirzah - This seems to have been the royal city; see 1Ki 15:33, and 1Ki 14:17; and in this Baasha was probably obliged to shut himself up.

This site's exposition

sent the commanders of his armies

on 1 Kings 15:20-22

Ben-hadad strikes Naphtali, so Baasha abandons Ramah and withdraws to Tirzah, the capital of Israel until Omri builds Samaria. Asa has all Judah carry off the stones and timbers of Ramah and builds Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah with them. The materials meant to shut Judah in now defend it.

This site's exposition

withdrew to Tirzah

John Wesley notes that Baasha stayed in Tirzah to guard against a second invasion from Aram. The ungodly plan of Asa succeeded, and Wesley warns against judging a cause by its outcome. Adam Clarke takes Tirzah for the royal city.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

There he abode to defend his own kingdoms, and durst not return to oppose Asa, lest the Syrian king should make a second invasion. So Asa met with success in this ungodly course as good men sometimes meet with disappointment in a good cause and course. So there is no judging of causes by events.
And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof,.... What was doing in the northern part of his kingdom: that he left off building of Ramah; which was the thing designed to be answered by this diversion: and dwelt in Tirzah; in the tribe of Manasseh, nearer at hand, to observe and stop the motions of the Syrian king.

The words behind it

9 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַֽיְהִי֙and it was

    vayhiH1961 →3559 times

  • כִּשְׁמֹ֣עַwhen heard

    kishmoa'H8085 →1159 times

  • בַּעְשָׁ֔אBaasha

    ba'sha'H1201 →28 times

  • וַיֶּחְדַּ֕לand he ceased

    vaiyechdalH2308 →58 times

  • מִבְּנ֖וֹתfrom building

    mibenotH1129 →376 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הָֽרָמָ֑ה<the> Ramah

    haramahH7414 →36 times

  • וַיֵּ֖שֶׁבand he remained

    vaiyeshevH3427 →1079 times

  • בְּתִרְצָֽה׃in Tirzah

    betirtzahH8656 →18 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Song of Solomon 6:4

    You are as beautiful, my darling, as Tirzah, as lovely as Jerusalem, as majestic as troops with banners.

    it leads to

    • Song of Solomon 6:10

      Who is this who shines like the dawn, as fair as the moon, as bright as the sun, as majestic as the stars in procession?

    • Psalms 48:2

      Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.

    • 1 Kings 14:17

      Then Jeroboam’s wife got up and departed for Tirzah, and as soon as she stepped over the threshold of the house, the boy died.

  • Through

    1 Kings 14:17

    Then Jeroboam’s wife got up and departed for Tirzah, and as soon as she stepped over the threshold of the house, the boy died.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 15:33

      In the third year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Baasha son of Ahijah became king of all Israel, and he reigned in Tirzah twenty-four years.

    • 1 Kings 16:23

      In the thirty-first year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Omri became king of Israel, and he reigned twelve years, six of them in Tirzah.

    • 1 Kings 16:15

      In the twenty-seventh year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Zimri reigned in Tirzah for seven days. Now the troops were encamped against Gibbethon of the Philistines,

  • Through

    1 Kings 15:17

    Baasha king of Israel went to war against Judah and fortified Ramah to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the territory of Asa king of Judah.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 12:27

      If these people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, their hearts will return to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah; then they will kill me and return…

    • 2 Chronicles 16:1–6

      In the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and fortified Ramah to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the territory of Asa king of Judah.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Kings

The visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, Sir Edward John Poynter, 1890. Public domain.
The visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, Sir Edward John Poynter, 1890. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; F. W. Farrar, The First Book of Kings (Expositor's Bible); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.