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1 Kings 15:27

in 1 Kings 15

Then Baasha son of Ahijah of the house of Issachar conspired against Nadab, and Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon of the Philistines while Nadab and all Israel were besieging the city.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon.

KJV

And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.

This verse in 1 Kings 15

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
Baasha ... of the house of Issachar - It is curious to find Issachar furnishing a king. Tola, its one very undistinguished Judge Jdg 10:1, on obtaining office had at once settled himself in the territory of Ephraim. The tribe was as little famous as any that could be named. The “ass crouching between two burthens” was a true symbol of the patient, plodding cultivators of the plain of Esdraelon Gen 49:14-

This site's exposition

Baasha the son of Ahijah

on 1 Kings 15:27-28

Baasha's conspiracy against Nadab happens at Gibbethon, a Philistine town under siege by Israel's own army, so the coup takes the king in the field rather than on his throne; the same site returns at 16:15-17 when Zimri kills Elah amid another siege there, a coincidence of place the book records without comment twice over. Nadab's death ends Jeroboam's dynasty after a single generation, the shortest reign of any king recorded so far in either kingdom.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Baasha smote him at Gibbethon--This town, within the tribe of Dan, was given to the Levites (Jos 19:44). It lay on the Philistine borders, and having been seized by that people, Nadab laid siege to recover it.

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Smote him at Gabbethon - This was a city in the tribe of Dan, and generally in the possession of the Philistines.

The words behind it

18 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.

  • וַיִּקְשֹׁ֨רand he conspired

    vaiyikshorH719444 times

  • עָלָ֜יוon him

    ʾalavH59215755 times

  • בַּעְשָׁ֤אBaasha

    ba'sha'H120128 times

  • בֶן־[the] son of

    ven-H11214930 times

  • אֲחִיָּה֙Ahijah

    ʾachiyahH28124 times

  • לְבֵ֣יתof [the] house of

    leveitH10042046 times

  • יִשָּׂשכָ֔רIssachar

    yisoshkharH3485

  • וַיַּכֵּ֣הוּand he struck down him

    vaiyakehuH5221499 times

  • בַעְשָׁ֔אBaasha

    va'sha'H120128 times

  • בְּגִבְּת֖וֹןat Gibbethon

    begibetonH14056 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH8345497 times

  • לַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים[belonged] to the Philistines

    lapelishtimH6430287 times

  • וְנָדָב֙and Nadab

    venadavH507020 times

  • וְכָל־and all

    vekholH36055413 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael

    yisraelH34782507 times

  • צָרִ֖ים[were] laying siege

    tzarimH669638 times

  • עַֽל־on

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • גִּבְּתֽוֹן׃Gibbethon

    gibetonH14056 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

    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,

    it leads to

    • Joshua 21:23

      From the tribe of Dan they were given Elteke, Gibbethon,

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Joshua 19:44

      Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath,

    • Psalms 37:35

      I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,

  • Through

    1 Kings 14:14

    Moreover, the LORD will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is the day—yes, even today!

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 15:27–29

      Then Baasha son of Ahijah of the house of Issachar conspired against Nadab, and Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon of the Philistines while Nadab and all Israel were besieging the city.

  • Through

    1 Kings 16:9

    However, while Elah was in Tirzah getting drunk in the house of Arza the steward of his household there, Elah’s servant Zimri, the commander of half his chariots, conspired against him.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 24:2

      So Abraham instructed the chief servant of his household, who managed all he owned, “Place your hand under my thigh,

    • 1 Kings 18:3

      and Ahab summoned Obadiah, who was in charge of the palace. (Now Obadiah greatly feared the LORD,

    • Daniel 5:1–4

      Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.

    • Genesis 39:4

      Joseph found favor in his sight and became his personal attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household and entrusted him with everything he owned.

About 1 Kings

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