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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

5 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, and verse 32 repeats verse 16, “war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel throughout their days”. Hebrew narrative uses such a resumptive repetition to mark a return to the main line after a digression. Here it hands the story back to Judah.

This site's exposition

war between Asa and Baasha king

Albert Barnes notes that the sentence repeats verse 16 word for word, taken from the book of the kings of Israel. Baasha reigned twenty-four years, at verse 33, so this war ran through much of the reign of Asa. Ramah was its main field.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. For being a wicked man, and an idolater, Asa had no respect for him, though he had slain the family of Jeroboam; nor had Baasha any regard to Judah, nor to the worship of God at Jerusalem, so that there was no good understanding between them, but frequent acts of hostility, see 1Ki 15:16.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

There was war - See on 1Ki 15:16 (note).

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.

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.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil, The Books of the Kings.

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