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1 Kings 15:16

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Asa;   Baasha;   Israel;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Thompson Chain Reference - Asa;   Baasha;   Israel;   Israel-The Jews;   Kings of Israel;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;   War;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Asa;   Baasha;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Artaxerxes;   Baasha;   Ben-hadad;   Judah, tribe and kingdom;   Syria;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Alliances;   Kings, the Books of;   Maachah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Baasha;   Ben-Hadad;   Damascus;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Ramah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Baasha ;   Damascus;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Baasha;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Asa;   Baasha;   Benhadad;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Alliances;   Asa;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
There was war between Asa and King Baasha of Israel throughout their reigns.
Hebrew Names Version
There was war between Asa and Ba`sha king of Yisra'el all their days.
King James Version
And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
English Standard Version
And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
New Century Version
There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all the time they were kings.
New English Translation
Now Asa and King Baasha of Israel were continually at war with each other.
Amplified Bible
Now there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
New American Standard Bible
Now there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And there was warre betweene Asa and Baasha King of Israel all their dayes.
Legacy Standard Bible
Now there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
Contemporary English Version
Asa was always at war with King Baasha of Israel.
Complete Jewish Bible
There was war between Asa and Ba‘sha king of Isra'el as long as they both lived.
Darby Translation
And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
Easy-to-Read Version
The whole time that King Asa was king of Judah, he fought a war against King Baasha of Israel.
George Lamsa Translation
And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
Good News Translation
King Asa of Judah and King Baasha of Israel were constantly at war with each other as long as they were in power.
Lexham English Bible
There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all of their days.
Literal Translation
And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And there was warre betwene Asa & Baesa the kynge of Israel, as longe as they lyued.
American Standard Version
And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
Bible in Basic English
Now there was war between Asa and Baasha, king of Israel, all their days.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And there was warre betweene Asa, & Baasa king of Israel all their dayes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And there was war between Asa and Baasa king of Israel all their days.
King James Version (1611)
And there was war betweene Asa and Baasha King of Israel all their dayes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And there was war between Asa and Baasa king of Israel all their days.
English Revised Version
And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
Berean Standard Bible
Now there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel throughout their days.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe batel was bitwixe Asa and Baasa, kyng of Israel, in alle the daies of hem.
Young's Literal Translation
And war hath been between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days,
Update Bible Version
And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
Webster's Bible Translation
And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
World English Bible
There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
New King James Version
Now there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
New Living Translation
There was constant war between King Asa of Judah and King Baasha of Israel.
New Revised Standard
There was war between Asa and King Baasha of Israel all their days.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And there was, war, between Asa and Baasha king of Israel, all their days.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And there was war between Asa, and Baasa, king of Israel, all their days.
Revised Standard Version
And there was war between Asa and Ba'asha king of Israel all their days.
THE MESSAGE
But through much of his reign there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel. Baasha king of Israel started it by building a fort at Ramah and closing the border between Israel and Judah so no one could enter or leave Judah.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

Contextual Overview

9 In the twentieth year of Jeroboam the king of Israel, Asa began to rule as king of Judah. 10 He ruled for forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. 11 And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, like David his father. 12 He sent away the men from the land who sold the use of their bodies in their religion. He took away all the false gods his father had made. 13 He stopped his mother Maacah from being queen mother, because she had made a hated object of the false goddess Asherah. And Asa cut down her hated object and burned it at the river Kidron. 14 The high places were not taken away. But Asa was faithful to the Lord with all his heart for all his days. 15 He brought into the house of the Lord the holy things of his father and his own holy things, silver, gold, and holy objects. 16 There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. 17 Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah. He built walls around Ramah to stop anyone from going out or coming in to Asa king of Judah. 18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold which were left in the storerooms of the Lord's house and the king's house, and gave them to his servants. King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived in Damascus. Asa said,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Kings 15:6, 1 Kings 15:7, 1 Kings 15:32, 1 Kings 14:30, 2 Chronicles 16:1-6

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 3:1 - long war 1 Kings 15:27 - Baasha the son 2 Chronicles 15:19 - five and thirtieth

Cross-References

Genesis 15:5
He took him outside and said, "Now look up into the heavens and add up the stars, if you are able to number them." Then He said to him, "Your children and your children's children will be as many as the stars."
Genesis 15:8
And Abram said, "O Lord God, how may I know that it will be mine?"
Genesis 15:9
So the Lord said to him, "Bring Me a three-year-old cow, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove and a young pigeon."
Genesis 15:11
When the meat-eating birds came down upon the dead animals, Abram made them go away.
Exodus 12:40
The people of Israel had lived in Egypt 430 years.
1 Kings 21:26
He did what was hated by following false gods. He did all that the Amorites had done, whom the Lord drove out in front of the people of Israel.
Daniel 8:23
In the later part of their rule, when they have become as sinful as they can be, a king will rise to power. This king will be very proud and will understand secret things.
1 Thessalonians 2:16
They tried to keep us from preaching the Good News to the people who are not Jews. The Jews do not want them saved from the punishment of sin. The lives of the Jews are full of more sin all the time. But now God's anger has come to them at last.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days:] That is as long as they lived together; for Baasha died many years before Asa, and this must be reckoned from the time the war began between them. Baasha did not begin his reign until the third year of Asa, 1 Kings 15:25 and in the first ten years of Asa's reign the land was quiet and free from war, 2 Chronicles 14:1 of which there must be seven in the reign of Baasha, who is here made mention of out of course, for Nadab reigned before him, 1 Kings 15:25, the reason of which Abarbinel thinks is, that the historian, having given an account of the good deeds of Asa, relates his failings before he proceeds to the other part of his history.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Baasha became king of Israel in the third year of Asa 1 Kings 15:33. The petty warfare which ordinarily prevailed on the borders of the two kingdoms continued “all the days” of Asa and Baasha. During the first ten years of Asa’s reign he was little molested 2 Chronicles 14:1, 2 Chronicles 14:6.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 15:16. There was war — That is, there was continual enmity; see on 1 Kings 15:6. But there was no open war till the thirty-sixth year of Asa, when Baasha, king of Israel, began to build Ramah, that he might prevent all communication between Israel and Judah; see 2 Chronicles 15:19; 2 Chronicles 16:1. But this does not agree with what is said here, 1 Kings 16:8-9, that Elah, the son and successor of Baasha, was killed by Zimri, in the twenty-sixth year of the reign of Asa. Chronologers endeavour to reconcile this by saying that the years should be reckoned, not from the beginning of the reign of Asa, but from the separation of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. It is most certain that Baasha could not make war upon Asa in the thirty-sixth year of his reign, when it is evident from this chapter that he was dead in the twenty-sixth year of that king. We must either adopt the mode of solution given by chronologists, or grant that there is a mistake in some of the numbers; most likely in the parallel places in Chronicles, but which we have no direct means of correcting. But the reader may compare 2 Chronicles 14:1, with 2 Chronicles 15:10; 2 Chronicles 15:19; 2 Chronicles 16:1.


 
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