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1 Kings 22:1

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Then three years passed without war between Aram and Israel.

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And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.

KJV

And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.

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This verse in 1 Kings 22

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel. From the time that Benhadad made a covenant with Ahab; not three full years, but part of them: it was threatened by Elijah from the Lord, that Ahab's life should go for Benhadad's, because he had let him, go, 1Ki 22:42, but because of his humiliation, as is thought by Ben Gersom and others, it was respited for those three years; and now an opportunity and occasion would be given for the fulfilment of what was threatened.

This site's exposition

continued three years without war

on 1 Kings 22:1-2

The truce with Syria runs the three years Ahab's covenant with Ben-hadad bought him after chapter 20, and into it Jehoshaphat of Judah comes down to Samaria, the visit that opens the chapter's alliance. The two kingdoms that split at Jeroboam sit at peace with each other while both remain at odds with the Lord in different ways.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

But that his hereditary enmity remained unsubdued, was manifest by his breach of faith concerning the treaty by which he had engaged to restore all the cities which his father had seized (1Ki 20:34).

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Three years without war - That is, from the time that Ahab made the covenant with Ben-hadad, mentioned 1Ki 20:34. And probably in that treaty it was stipulated that Ramoth-gilead should be restored to Israel; which not being done, Ahab formed a confederacy with Judah, and determined to take it by force.
Three years - These must be counted from the close of the second campaign of Ben-hadad 1Ki 20:34. They were not full years, as is evident from the next verse. Probably the first year is that of Ben-hadad’s dismissal after his defeat; the second is a year of actual peace; while the third is that in which Jehoshaphat paid his visit, and the Ramoth-Gilead expedition took place. The pause, here noticed, in the war between Israel and Syria was perhaps the result of a common danger.

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.

  • וַיֵּשְׁב֖וּand they remained

    vaiyeshevuH3427 →1079 times

  • שָׁלֹ֣שׁthree

    shaloshH7969 →432 times

  • שָׁנִ֑יםyears

    shanimH8141 →877 times

  • אֵ֚יןthere not

    ʾeinH369 →789 times

  • מִלְחָמָ֔ה[was] war

    milchamahH4421 →320 times

  • בֵּ֥יןbetween

    beinH996 →407 times

  • אֲרָ֖םAram

    ʾaramH758 →143 times

  • וּבֵ֥יןand between

    uveinH996 →407 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ פIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

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

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

5 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 20:34

    Ben-hadad said to him, “I will restore the cities my father took from your father; you may set up your own marketplaces in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” “By this treaty I…

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 15:20

      And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, conquering Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and the whole land of Naphtali, including the region of Chinnereth.

    • 1 Kings 20:42

      And the prophet said to the king, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because you have let slip from your hand the man I had devoted to destruction, your life will be exchanged for…

    • Isaiah 26:10

      Though grace is shown to the wicked man, he does not learn righteousness. In the land of righteousness he acts unjustly and fails to see the majesty of the LORD.

    • 2 Chronicles 16:4

      And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, conquering Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.

    • 1 Kings 22:31

      Now the king of Aram had ordered his thirty-two chariot commanders, “Do not fight with anyone, small or great, except the king of Israel.”

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Kings

The Death of Ahab — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Death of Ahab — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
1 Kings: the study guide →Read 1 Kings 22 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; 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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