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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...
  

• 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...
  

• 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...
  

• 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.
  

• 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...
  

• 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 ...
  

• 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...
  

• 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...
  

• 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.
  

• 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...
  

• Gibbethon

  [ebd] a height, a city of the Philistines in the territory of Dan, given to the Kohathites (Josh. 19:44; 21:23). Nadab the king of Israel, while besieging it, was slain under its walls by Baasha, one of his own officers (1 Kings 1...
  [isbe] GIBBETHON - gib'-e-thon (gibbethon): A city in the territory of Dan in the plain named with Eltekeh and Baalath (Josh 19:44), and assigned to the Kohathite Levites (Josh 21:23). Later we find it in the hands of the Philistin...
  [nave] GIBBETHON A city of Dan, Josh. 19:44. Allotted to the Levites, Josh. 21:23. Besieged by Israel, while in possession of Philistines, 1 Kin. 15:27; 16:15, 17.
  

• 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 ...
  

• ISRAEL, KINGDOM OF

  [isbe] ISRAEL, KINGDOM OF - || I. THE FIRST PERIOD 1. The Two Kingdoms 2. The Ist Dynasty 3. The IInd Dynasty 4. Civil War II. PERIOD OF THE SYRIAN WARS 1. The IIIrd Dynasty 2. World-Politics 3. Battle of Karkar 4. Loss of Territor...
  [smith] I. the kingdom. --The prophet Ahijah of Shiloh, who was commissioned in the latter days of Solomon to announce the division of the kingdom, left one tribe (Judah) to the house of David, and assigned ten to Jeroboam. (1 Kin...
  

• Jehoshaphat

  [smith] (whom Jehovah judges.) King of Judah, son of Asa, succeeded to the throne B.C. 914, when he was 35 years old, and reigned 25 years. His history is to be found among the events recorded in (1 Kings 15:24; 2 Kings 8:16) ...
  [nave] JEHOSHAPHAT 1. David's recorder, 2 Sam. 8:16; 20:24; 1 Kin. 4:3; 1 Chr. 18:15. 2. One of Solomon's commissariat officers, 1 Kin. 4:17. 3. King of Judah. Succeeds Asa, 1 Kin. 15:24; 22:41; 1 Chr. 3:10; 2 Chr. 17:1; Matt. 1:...
  

• Shilonite

  [ebd] Ahijah the prophet, whose home was in Shiloh, is so designated (1 Kings 11:29; 15:29). The plural form occurs (1 Chr. 9:5), denoting the descendants of Shelah, Judah's youngest son.
  [nave] SHILONITE 1. A man of Shiloh, 1 Kin. 11:29; 12:15; 15:29; 2 Chr. 9:29; 10:15. 2. Used, apparently, to denote a descendant of Shelah, 1 Chr. 9:5. See: Shelanites.
  

• Abel-Beth-Maachah

  [ebd] meadow of the house of Maachah, a city in the north of Palestine, in the neighbourhood of Dan and Ijon, in the tribe of Naphtali. It was a place of considerable strength and importance. It is called a "mother in Israel", i.e...
  [nave] ABEL-BETH-MAACHAH, called also Abel-maim. A city in the N. of Palestine. Sheba slain in, 2 Sam. 20:14-22. Taken by Ben Hadad, 1 Kin. 15:20; 2 Chr. 16:4; by Tiglath, 2 Kin. 15:29.
  

• King Pekah

  

• Asa Building, Fighting, and Looting

  

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