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15:18 Asa <0609> took <03947> all <03605> the silver <03701> and gold <02091> that was left <03498> in the treasuries <0214> of the Lord’s <03068> temple <01004> and of the royal <04428> palace <01004> and handed <03027> <05414> it to his servants <05650>. He <0609> <04428> then told them to <0413> deliver <07971> it to Ben Hadad <01130> son <01121> of Tabrimmon <02886>, the son <01121> of Hezion <02383>, king <04428> of Syria <0758>, ruler <03427> in Damascus <01834>, along with this message <0559>: 15:19 “I want to make a treaty <01285> with <0854> <0996> <0996> <0996> <0996> you, like the one our fathers <01> <01> made. See <02009>, I have sent <07971> you silver <03701> and gold <02091> as a present <07810>. Break <06565> your treaty <01285> with <0854> King <04428> Baasha <01201> of Israel <03478>, so he will retreat <05927> from my land.” 15:20 Ben Hadad <01130> accepted <08085> King <04428> Asa’s <0609> offer and ordered <07971> his army <02428> commanders <08269> to <0413> attack the cities <05892> of Israel <03478>. They conquered <05221> Ijon <05859>, Dan <01835>, Abel Beth Maacah <062>, and all <03605> the territory <0776> of Naphtali <05321>, including the region <03605> of Kinnereth <03672>. 15:21 When <01961> Baasha <01201> heard <08085> the news, he stopped <02308> fortifying <01129> Ramah <07414> and settled down <03427> in Tirzah <08656>. 15:22 King <04428> Asa <0609> ordered <08085> all <03605> the men of Judah <03063> (no <0369> exemptions <05355> were granted) to carry away <05375> the stones <068> and wood <06086> that <0834> Baasha <01201> had used to build <01129> Ramah <07414>. King <04428> Asa <0609> used the materials to build up <01129> Geba <01387> (in Benjamin <01144>) and Mizpah <04709>. 15:23 The rest <03499> of the events <01697> of Asa’s <0609> reign, including all <03605> his successes <01369> and accomplishments <06213>, as well as a record of the cities <05892> he built <01129>, are recorded <03789> in <05921> the scroll <05612> called the Annals <03117> <01697> of the Kings <04428> of Judah <03063>. Yet <07535> when <06256> he was very old <02209> he developed <02470> a foot <07272> disease <02470>. 15:24 Asa <0609> passed away <01> <05973> <07901> and was buried <06912> with <05973> his ancestors <01> in the city <05892> of his ancestor <01> David <01732>. His son <01121> Jehoshaphat <03092> replaced <08478> him as king <04427>. 15:25 In the second year <08141> of Asa’s <0609> reign over <04428> Judah <03063>, Jeroboam’s <03379> son <01121> Nadab <05070> became the king <04427> of Israel <03478>; he ruled <04427> Israel <03478> for two <08147> years <08141>. 15:26 He did <06213> evil <07451> in the sight <05869> of the Lord <03068>. He followed <01980> in his father’s <01> footsteps <01870> and encouraged <02398> Israel <03478> to sin <02398>. 15:27 Baasha <01201> son <01121> of Ahijah <0281>, from the tribe <01004> of Issachar <03485>, conspired <07194> against <05921> Nadab <01201> and assassinated <05221> him in Gibbethon <01405>, which <0834> was in Philistine <06430> territory. This happened while Nadab <05070> and all <03605> the Israelite <03478> army were besieging <06696> Gibbethon <01405>. 15:28 Baasha <01201> killed <04191> him in the third <07969> year <08141> of Asa’s <0609> reign over <04428> Judah <03063> and replaced <08478> him as king. 15:29 When <01961> he became king <04427>, he executed <05221> Jeroboam’s <03379> entire <03605> family <01004>. He wiped out <08045> everyone <03605> who breathed <05397>, just as <05704> the Lord <03068> had <0834> predicted <01696> through <03027> his servant <05650> Ahijah <0281> the Shilonite <07888>. 15:30 This happened because <05921> of the sins <02403> which <0834> Jeroboam <03379> committed <02398> and which <0834> he made Israel <03478> commit <02398>. These sins <03708> angered <03707> the Lord <03068> God <0430> of Israel <03478>. 15:31 The rest <03499> of the events <01697> of Nadab’s <05070> reign, including all <03605> his accomplishments <06213>, are recorded <03789> in <05921> the scroll <05612> called the Annals <03117> <01697> of the Kings <04428> of Israel <03478>. 15:32 Asa <0609> and <0996> King <04428> Nadab <01201> of Israel <03478> were <01961> continually <03117> <03605> at war <04421> with each other. 15:33 In the third <07969> year <08141> of Asa’s <0609> reign over <04428> Judah <03063>, Baasha <01201> son <01121> of Ahijah <0281> became king <04427> over <05921> all <03605> Israel <03478> in Tirzah <08656>; he ruled for twenty-four <0702> <06242> years <08141>. 15:34 He did <06213> evil <07451> in the sight <05869> of the Lord <03068>; he followed <01980> in Jeroboam’s <03379> footsteps <01870> and encouraged <02398> Israel <03478> to sin <02398>.

• 1Ki 15:25-32 -- Nadab's Reign over Israel
• 1Ki 15:33--16:7 -- Baasha's Reign over Israel

• Baasha

  [ebd] bravery, the third king of the separate kingdom of Israel, and founder of its second dynasty (1 Kings 15; 16; 2 Chr. 16:1-6). He was the son of Ahijah of the tribe of Issachar. The city of Tirzah he made the capital of his k...
  [smith] (wicked), B.C. 953-931, third sovereign of the separate kingdom of Israel, and the founder of its second dynasty. He was son of Ahijah of the tribe of Issachar and conspired against King Nadab, (1 Kings 15:27) and killed h...
  [nave] BAASHA, king of Israel, 1 Kin. 15:16-22, 27-34; 16:1-7; 21:22; 2 Kin. 9:9; 2 Chr. 16:1-6; Jer. 41:9.
  

• Nadab

  [ebd] liberal, generous. (1.) The eldest of Aaron's four sons (Ex. 6:23; Num. 3:2). He with his brothers and their father were consecrated as priests of Jehovah (Ex. 28:1). He afterwards perished with Abihu for the sin of offering...
  [isbe] NADAB - na'-dab (nadhabh, "noble"; Nadab): (1) Aaron's first-born son (Ex 6:23; Nu 3:2; 26:60; 1 Ch 6:3 (Hebrew 5:29); 24:1). He was permitted with Moses, Aaron, the 70 elders, and his brother Abihu to ascend Mt. Sinai and b...
  [smith] (liberal). The eldest son of Aaron and Elisheba. Exod 8 13 Numb 3:2. (B.C. 1490.) He, his father and brother, and seventy old men of Israel were led out from the midst of the assembled people, (Exodus 24:1) and were commende...
  [nave] NADAB 1. Son of Aaron, Ex. 6:23. Called to Mount Sinai with Moses and Aaron to worship, Ex. 24:1, 9, 10. Set apart to priesthood, Ex. 28:1, 4, 40-43. Offers strange fire to God, and is destroyed, Lev. 10:1, 2; Num. 3:4; 2...
  

• Asa

  [isbe] ASA - a'-sa ('aca', "healer"; Asa): (1) A king of Judah, the third one after the separation of Judah and Israel. He was the son of Abijah and grandson of Rehoboam. Maacah, his mother, or rather grandmother, was daughter of A...
  [nave] ASA 1. King of Judah, 1 Kin. 15:8-24; 1 Chr. 3:10; 2 Chr. 14; 15; 16; Matt. 1:7. 2. A Levite, 1 Chr. 9:16.
  

• Israel

  [nave] ISRAEL 1. A name given to Jacob, Gen. 32:24-32; 2 Kin. 17:34; Hos. 12:3, 4. 2. A name of the Christ in prophecy, Isa. 49:3. 3. A name given to the descendants of Jacob, a nation. Called also Israelites, and Hebrews, Gen. 4...
  

• Ahijah

  [isbe] AHIJAH - a-hi'-ja ('achiyah or 'achiyahu, "brother of Yahweh," "my brother is Yahweh," "Yah is brother." In the King James Version the name sometimes appears as Ahiah): (1) One of the sons of Jerahmeel the great-grandson of ...
  [nave] AHIJAH, called also Ahiah. 1. Son of Bela, 1 Chr. 8:7. 2. Son of Jerahmeel, 1 Chr. 2:25. 3. A priest in Shiloh, probably identical with Ahimelech, mentioned in 1 Sam. 22:11. Was priest in Saul's reign, 1 Sam. 14:3, 18. S...
  

• Rama

  [ebd] (Matt. 2:18), the Greek form of Ramah. (1.) A city first mentioned in Josh. 18:25, near Gibeah of Benjamin. It was fortified by Baasha, king of Israel (1 Kings 15:17-22; 2 Chr. 16:1-6). Asa, king of Judah, employed Benhadad ...
  

• Ramah

  [nave] RAMAH 1. Called Rama, Matt. 2:18. A city allotted to Benjamin, Josh. 18:25; Judg. 19:13. Attempted fortification of, by King Baasha; destruction of, by Asa, 1 Kin. 15:17-22; 2 Chr. 16:1-6. People of, return from the Babyl...
  

• Government

  [nave] GOVERNMENT Paternal functions of, Gen. 41:25-57. Civil service school provided by, Dan. 1:3-20. Maintains a system of public instruction, 2 Chr. 17:7-9. Executive departments in. See: Cabinet; King; Ruler; Statecraft. Ju...
  

• Ben-hadad

  [ebd] the standing title of the Syrian kings, meaning "the son of Hadad." (See HADADEZER.) (1.) The king of Syria whom Asa, king of Judah, employed to invade Israel (1 Kings 15:18). (2.) Son of the preceding, also king of Syria. H...
  [nave] BEN-HADAD 1. King of Syria, 1 Kin. 15:18-20; 2 Chr. 16:2-4. 2. A king of Syria, who reigned in the time of Ahab, son of Ben-hadad I, 1 Kin. 20; 2 Kin. 5; 6; 7; 8:7-15. 3. Son of Hazael and king of Syria, 2 Kin. 13:3, 24, 2...
  

• Hezion

  [ebd] vision, the father of Tabrimon, and grandfather of Ben-hadad, king of Syria (1 Kings 15:18).
  [isbe] HEZION - he'-zi-on (chezyon; the Septuagint's Codex Vaticanus, Azein; Codex Alexandrinus, Azael): An ancestor of Ben-hadad, king of Syria (1 Ki 15:18).
  [smith] (vision), a king of Aram (Syria), father of Tabrimon and grandfather of Ben-hadad I. (1 Kings 15:18) He is probably identical with REZON, the contemporary of Solomon, in (1 Kings 11:23) (B.C. before 928.)
  [nave] HEZION, grandfather of Ben-hadad, 1 Kin. 15:18.
  

• Tirzah

  [isbe] TIRZAH - tur'-za (tirtsah; Thersa): (1) A royal city of the Canaanites, the king of which was slain by Joshua (12:24). It superseded Shechem as capital of the Northern Kingdom (1 Ki 14:17, etc.), and itself gave place in tur...
  [nave] TIRZAH 1. A daughter of Zelophehad, Num. 26:33; 36:11; Josh. 17:3. Special legislation in regard to the inheritance of, Num. 27:1-11; 36; Josh. 17:3, 4. 2. A city of Canaan. Captured by Joshua, Josh. 12:24. Becomes the re...
  

• Ijon

  [ebd] a ruin, a city of Naphtali, captured by Ben-hadad of Syria at the instance of Asa (1 Kings 15:20), and afterwards by Tiglath-pileser of Assyria (2 Kings 15:29) in the reign of Pekah; now el-Khiam.
  [isbe] IJON - i'-jon (`iyon; Septuagint in Kings has Ain, or Nain; in Chronicles Ion; Aion): A town in the territory of Naphtali, first mentioned in connection with the invasion of Ben-hadad, in the reign of Baasha. It was captured...
  [smith] (a ruin), a town in the north of Palestine, belonging to the tribe of Naphtali. It was taken and plundered by the captains of Ben-hadad, (1 Kings 15:20; 2 Chronicles 16:4) and a second time by Tiglath-pileser. (2 Kin...
  [nave] IJON, a town of Naphtali, 1 Kin. 15:20; 2 Kin. 15:29; 2 Chr. 16:4.
  

• Homicide

  [nave] HOMICIDE. Accidental Ex. 21:13, 28-32; Num. 35:11-15, 22-28, 32 Deut. 4:41-43; 19:1-10. Josh. 20:1-9 Felonious or Murder: Gen. 4:9-11 v. 12.; Gen. 9:5, 6; Gen. 49:7; Ex. 20:13 Deut. 5:17; Rom. 13:9. Ex. 21:29-32; Num. 35...
  

• Alliances

  [smith] On the first establishment of the Hebrews in Palestine no connections were formed between them and the surrounding nations. But with the extension of their power under the kings alliances became essential to the security of t...
  [nave] ALLIANCES. Political With idolaters forbidden, Ex. 23:32, 33; 34:12-15; Deut. 7:2; Judg. 2:2; 2 Chr. 19:2; 20:37; Isa. 30:2; 31:1; Hos. 4:17; 5:13; 12:1; Ezek. 17:15. Ratification of: By oaths, Gen. 21:23; 26:28-31; Josh....
  

• PALESTINE, 2

  [isbe] PALESTINE, 2 - III. Palestine in the Historic Books of the Old Testament. 1. Book of Joshua: Joshua is the great geographical book of the Old Testament; and the large majority of the 600 names of places, rivers and mountains...
  

• ALLIANCE

  [isbe] ALLIANCE - a-li'-ans. 1. In the Patriarchal Stories: Frequent references are made to alliances between the patriarchs and foreigners. Abraham is reported to have had "confederates" among the chiefs of the Canaanites (Gen 14:...
  

• DAMASCUS

  [isbe] DAMASCUS - da-mas'-kus: 1. The Name 2. Situation and Natural Features 3. The City Itself 4. Its History (1) The Early Period (to circa 950 BC) (2) The Aramean Kingdom (circa 950-732 BC) (3) The Middle Period (732 BC-650 AD) ...
  [smith] one of the most ancient and most important of the cities of Syria. It is situated 130 miles northeast of Jerusalem, in a plain of vast size and of extreme fertility, which lies east of the great chain of Anti-Libanus, on the ...
  

• Regicide

  [nave] REGICIDE Of Ehud, Judg. 3:16-23. Of Saul, 2 Sam. 1:16. Of Ish-bosheth, 2 Sam. 4:5-8. Of Nadab, 1 Kin. 15:27-29. Of Elah, 1 Kin. 16:9-11. Of Joram, 2 Kin. 9:24. Of Ahaziah, 2 Kin. 9:27. Of Joash, 2 Kin. 12:20, 21. Of ...
  

• Rulers

  [nave] RULERS Appointed and removed by God. See: Government, God in. Chastised, Dan. 4. See: Nation. Monarchical, See: Kings. Patriarchal, Gen. 27:29, 37. Instances of Nimrod, Gen. 10:8-10. Abraham, Gen. 14:13-24; 17:6; 21:2...
  

• Geba

  [ebd] the hill, (2 Sam. 5:25 [1 Chr. 14:16, "Gibeon"]; 2 Kings 23:8; Neh. 11:31), a Levitical city of Benjamin (1 Kings 15:22; 1 Sam. 13:16; 14:5, wrongly "Gibeah" in the A.V.), on the north border of Judah near Gibeah (Isa. 10:29...
  [isbe] GEBA - ge'-ba (gebha`, "hill"): (1) A town on the Northeast boundary of the territory of Benjamin (Josh 18:24), given to the Levites (Josh 21:17; 1 Ch 6:60). It stood on the northern frontier of the kingdom of Judah, Geba an...
  [nave] GEBA, called also Gaba. A city of Benjamin, assigned to the sons of Aaron, Josh. 21:17; 1 Sam. 13:3; 2 Sam. 5:25; 1 Kin. 15:22; 2 Kin. 23:8; 1 Chr. 6:60; 8:6; 2 Chr. 16:6; Neh. 11:31; 12:29; Isa. 10:29; Zech. 14:10.
  

• Asa Building, Fighting, and Looting

  

• King Pekah

  

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