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1 Kings 15:19

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“Let there be a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. See, I have sent you a gift of silver and gold. Now go and break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, so that he will withdraw from me.”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

There is a league between me and thee, between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.

KJV

There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.

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This verse in 1 Kings 15

Commentary

7 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

There is a league between me and thee - Or, Let there be a league between me and thee; as there was between my father and thy father. There was no reason why Asa should have emptied his treasures at this time to procure the aid of the Syrian king; as it does not appear that there was any danger which himself could not have turned aside. He probably wished to destroy the kingdom of Israel; and to effect this purpose, even robbed the house of the Lord.

This site's exposition

war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel

on 1 Kings 15:16-19

Baasha's fortification of Ramah, a few miles from Jerusalem, is meant to seal Judah's northern border and choke its traffic, and Asa answers not with the Lord he has just honored but with the very silver and gold verse 15 named as dedicated, sent to buy off Ben-hadad of Damascus and break a standing treaty with Israel. 2 Chronicles 16:7-9 records the prophet Hanani's rebuke for exactly this choice, trusting a Syrian king rather than the Lord who had already given Asa victory over a far larger army; Kings itself states the deed without the rebuke and lets the treasury's history from verse 15 make the point.

This site's exposition

break your treaty with Baasha king

Matthew Henry names two wrongs here: Asa urged Ben-hadad to break his sworn word, and he trusted silver in place of God. Adam Clarke doubts that Judah stood in real danger at all. Asa buys a foreign king against his own kin.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Here he sinned, (1.) In tempting Benhadad to break his league, and so to violate the public faith. If he did wrong in doing it, as certainly he did, Asa did wrong in persuading him to do it. (2.) In that he could not trust God, who had done so much for him, to free him out of this strait, without using such indirect means to help himself.
There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the . . . house of the Lord--Asa's religious character is now seen to decline. He trusted not in the Lord (2Ch 16:7).
Rather, “Let there be a league between me and thee, as there was between my father and thy father.”

The words behind it

23 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.

  • בְּרִית֙a covenant

    beritH1285 →284 times

  • בֵּינִ֣י[be] between me

    beiniH996 →407 times

  • וּבֵינֶ֔ךָand between you

    uveinekhaH996 →407 times

  • בֵּ֥יןbetween

    beinH996 →407 times

  • אָבִ֖יfather my

    ʾaviH1 →1212 times

  • וּבֵ֣יןand between

    uveinH996 →407 times

  • אָבִ֑יךָfather your

    ʾavikhaH1 →1212 times

  • הִנֵּה֩here!

    hinehH2009 →843 times

  • שָׁלַ֨חְתִּֽיI send

    shalachtiH7971 →845 times

  • לְךָ֥to you

    lekha

  • שֹׁ֙חַד֙a gift

    shochadH7810 →

  • כֶּ֣סֶףsilver

    kesefH3701 →403 times

  • וְזָהָ֔בand gold

    vezahavH2091 →389 times

  • לֵ֣ךְcome

    lekhH1980 →1546 times

  • הָפֵ֗רָהbreak !

    haferahH6565 →

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • בְּרִֽיתְךָ֙covenant your

    beritekhaH1285 →284 times

  • אֶת־with

    ʾet-H854 →929 times

  • בַּעְשָׁ֣אBaasha

    ba'sha'H1201 →28 times

  • מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of

    melekh-H4428 →2525 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • וְיַעֲלֶ֖הso he may go up

    veyaalehH5927 →890 times

  • מֵעָלָֽי׃from on <the> me

    mealaiH5921 →5755 times

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

Related verses

11 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Romans 1:31They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.3 works1 Kings 5:12And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as He had promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.3 worksEcclesiastes 2:4I expanded my pursuits. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.3 works2 Chronicles 19:2Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, the wrath of the LORD is upon you.2 worksIsaiah 31:1Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.2 worksRomans 3:8Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, “Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved!2 works
The other 5 cross-references, with their words ▾
2 Chronicles 16:7At that time Hanani the seer came to King Asa of Judah and told him, “Because you have relied on the king of Aram and not on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped from your hand.2 works2 Chronicles 16:3“Let there be a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. See, I have sent you silver and gold. Now go and break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, so that he will withdraw from me.”2 worksEzekiel 17:13–16He took a member of the royal family and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. Then he carried away the leading men of the land,2 works2 Samuel 21:2At this, David summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not Israelites, but a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had taken an oath concerning them, but in his zeal for Israel and Judah, Saul had sought to kill them.)2 worksGenesis 43:11Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your packs and carry them down as a gift for the man—a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh, pistachios and almonds.2 works

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

    Isaiah 31:1

    Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy…

    it leads to

    • Psalms 20:7

      Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.

    • Jeremiah 17:5

      This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.

    • Deuteronomy 17:16

      But the king must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire more horses, for the LORD has said, ‘You are never to go back that way…

    • Jeremiah 2:13

      “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

    • Isaiah 36:9

      For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

  • Through

    Romans 3:8

    Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, “Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved!

    it leads to

    • Romans 6:1

      What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase?

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 19:2

    Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, the wrath of…

    it leads to

    • Psalms 139:21–22

      Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD, and detest those who rise against You?

    • 2 John 1:10–11

      If anyone comes to you but does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your home or even greet him.

About 1 Kings

The Judgment of Solomon, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Judgment of Solomon, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
1 Kings: the study guide →Read 1 Kings 15 →

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

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