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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

• SHILONITE, THE

  [smith] that is, the native or resident of Shiloh; a title ascribed only to Ahijah. (1 Kings 11:29; 12:15; 15:29; 2 Chronicles 9:29; 10:15)
  

• 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...
  

• 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 ...
  

• PHILISTINES

  [isbe] PHILISTINES - fi-lis'-tinz, fil'-is-tinz, fil'-is-tinz (pelishtim; Phulistieim, allophuloi): I. OLD TESTAMENT NOTICES 1. Race and Origin 2. Religion 3. Individual Philistines Mentioned 4. Title of Ruler and Circumcision 5. H...
  

• 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...
  

• Kings, The Books of

  [ebd] The two books of Kings formed originally but one book in the Hebrew Scriptures. The present division into two books was first made by the LXX., which now, with the Vulgate, numbers them as the third and fourth books of Kings...
  

• KINGS, BOOKS OF

  [isbe] KINGS, BOOKS OF - || I. TITLE II. SCOPE III. CHARACTER OF BOOKS AND POSITION IN THE HEBREW CANON 1. Purpose 2. Character of Data IV. HISTORICAL VALUE 1. Treatment of Historical Data 2. Chronology 3. Value of Assyrian Records...
  

• ISSACHAR

  [isbe] ISSACHAR - is'-a-kar (yissa(se)khar; Septuagint, Swete Issachar; Tischendorf, Issachar, so also in the New Testament, Tregelles, and Westcott and Hort, The New Testament in Greek): (1) The 9th son of Jacob, the 5th borne to ...
  

• 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...
  

• 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...
  

• 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...
  

• FORTIFICATION; FORT; FORTIFIED CITIES; FORTRESS

  [isbe] FORTIFICATION; FORT; FORTIFIED CITIES; FORTRESS - for-ti-fi-ka'-shun (including): I. IN RECENT EXCAVATIONS 1. Excavation of Tells 2. Sites 3. Primitive Character 4. Walls 5. Towers 6. Acropolis or Castle 7. Masonry 8. Gates ...
  

• ELAH (2)

  [isbe] ELAH (2) - e'-la. Son of Baasha, fourth king of Israel (1 Ki 16:6-14). He reigned two years, 888-887 BC. The statement that he came to the throne in the 26th year of Asa, reigned two years, and died in the 27th year of Asa, ...
  

• Chronology

  [ebd] is the arrangement of facts and events in the order of time. The writers of the Bible themselves do not adopt any standard era according to which they date events. Sometimes the years are reckoned, e.g., from the time of the...
  

• CHRONOLOGY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT

  [isbe] CHRONOLOGY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT - kro-nol'-o-ji: I. INTRODUCTORY 1. Difficulties of the Subject 2. Plan of Treatment 3. Bible to be Regarded as Highest Authority II. THE AGES BETWEEN THE TESTAMENTS III. PERSIAN PERIOD IV. BA...
  

• 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.
  

• 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...
  

• 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...
  

• AHIAH, OR AHIJAH

  [smith] (friend of Jehovah). Son of Ahitub, grandson of Phinehas and great-grandson of Eli, succeeded his father as high priest in the reign of Saul. (1 Samuel 14:3,18) Ahiah is probably the same person as Ahimelech the son of Ah...
  

• ACTS OF SOLOMON

  [isbe] ACTS OF SOLOMON - "The book of the acts of Solomon" (1 Ki 11:41), probably a history based on the state documents kept by the official recorder. See 1 Ki 14:19,29; 15:23,31; 16:5,14,20,27; 22:39,45, etc.
  

• King Pekah

  

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