1 Kings 15:16

Young's Literal Translation

And war hath been between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days,

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.

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

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 And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned hath Asa over Judah, ¹⁰ and forty and one years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Maachah daughter of Abishalom. ¹¹ And Asa doth that which [is] right in the eyes of Jehovah, like David his father, ¹² and removeth the whoremongers out of the land, and turneth aside all the idols that his fathers made; ¹³ and also Maachah his mother -- he turneth her aside from being mistress, in that she made a horrible thing for a shrine, and Asa cutteth down her horrible thing, and burneth [it] by the brook Kidron; ¹⁴ and the high places have not turned aside; only, the heart of Asa hath been perfect with Jehovah all his days, ¹⁵ and he bringeth in the sanctified things of his father, and his own sanctified things, to the house of Jehovah, silver, and gold, and vessels. ¹⁶ And war hath been between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days, ¹⁷ and Baasha king of Israel goeth up against Judah, and buildeth Ramah, not to permit any one going out and coming in to Asa king of Judah. ¹⁸ And Asa taketh all the silver and the gold that are left in the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the house of the king, and giveth them into the hand of his servants, and king Asa sendeth them unto Ben-Hadad, son of Tabrimmon, son of Hezion king of Aram, who is dwelling in Damascus, saying,

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
and He bringeth him out without, and saith, `Look attentively, I pray thee, towards the heavens, and count the stars, if thou art able to count them;' and He saith to him, `Thus is thy seed.'

Genesis 15:8
and he saith, `Lord Jehovah, whereby do I know that I possess it?'

Genesis 15:9
And He saith unto him, `Take for Me a heifer of three years, and a she-goat of three years, and a ram of three years, and a turtle-dove, and a young bird;'

Genesis 15:11
and the ravenous birds come down upon the carcases, and Abram causeth them to turn back.

Exodus 12:40
And the dwelling of the sons of Israel which they have dwelt in Egypt [is] four hundred and thirty years;

1 Kings 21:26
and he doth very abominably to go after the idols, according to all that the Amorite did whom Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel.'

Daniel 8:23
`And in the latter end of their kingdom, about the perfecting of the transgressors, stand up doth a king, fierce of face, and understanding hidden things;

1 Thessalonians 2:16
forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always, but the anger did come upon them -- to the end!

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.