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1 Kings 15:32

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

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

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

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This verse in 1 Kings 15

Commentary

2 notes on this verse
An exact repetition of 1Ki 15:16. From the book before him 1Ki 15:31 the writer extracts a passage which happens to correspond exactly with one which he has already extracted from the “Book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.” He does not object to repeating himself (compare 1Ki 14:21, 1Ki 14:31; 1Ki 14:30; 1Ki 15:6; 2Ki 17:6; 2Ki 18:11).

This site's exposition

the rest of the acts of Nadab

on 1 Kings 15:31-32

The closing formula for Nadab is brief because his reign was brief, and verse 32 returns to the exact sentence already given at verse 16, war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days, a resumptive repetition that closes the excursus into Israel's throne and hands the narrative back to where it left Judah. Hebrew narrative uses this device often, a phrase repeated to signal a return to the main line after a digression, and the book will use it again.

The words behind it

10 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.

  • וּמִלְחָמָ֨הand war

    umilchamahH4421 →320 times

  • הָיְתָ֜הit was

    hayetahH1961 →3559 times

  • בֵּ֣יןbetween

    beinH996 →407 times

  • אָסָ֗אAsa

    ʾasa'H609 →57 times

  • וּבֵ֛יןand between

    uveinH996 →407 times

  • בַּעְשָׁ֥אBaasha

    ba'sha'H1201 →28 times

  • מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of

    melekh-H4428 →2525 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֖לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • יְמֵיהֶֽם׃ פdays their

    yemeihemH3117 →2304 times

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

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

3 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

    1 Kings 15:16

    Now there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel throughout their days.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 15:6–7

      And there was war between the houses of Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of Abijam’s life.

    • 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.

    • 1 Kings 14:30

      There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam throughout their days.

About 1 Kings

The Judgment of Solomon — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Judgment of Solomon — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
1 Kings: the study guide →Read 1 Kings 15 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament and Keil, The Books of the Kings.

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