1 Kings 15:1-17
mother <0517> [his mother's.]
Maacah <04601> [Maachah.]
[Michaiah the daughter of Uriel. Abishalom.]
[Absalom.]
sinful <02403> [all the sins.]
wholeheartedly ........ as <03824> [and his heart.]
David's <01732> [for David's.]
dynasty <05414 05216> [give him.]
dynasty <05216> [lamp. or, candle.]
by protecting <05975> [and to establish.]
David <01732> [David.]
involving <01697> [save only.]
war <04421> [there was war.]
Instead of Rehoboam fourteen MSS., the Arabic, and some copies of the Targum, read Abijam. The Syriac has "Abia, the son of Rehoboam;" and the Editio Princeps of the Vulgate has Abia. This is doubtless the true reading, as otherwise it would be an unnecessary repetition of ch. 14:30, and a repetition which interrupts the history of Abijah: (see 2 Ch 13:3, etc.)
rest <03499> [the rest.]
war <04421> [there was war.]
Abijah <038> [A.M. 3049. B.C. 955. Abijam.]
Asa <0609> [Asa.]
grandmother <0517> [A.M. 3049-3090. B.C. 955-914. mother's. that is, grandmother's.]
Asa <0609> [Asa.]
male cultic prostitutes <06945> [the sodomites.]
idols <01544> [all the idols.]
Maacah <04601> [Maachah.]
grandmother <0517> [his mother.]
cut down <03772> [destroyed. Heb. cut off.]
burned <08313> [and burnt.]
Valley <05158> [the brook.]
[Cedron.]
high places <01116> [the high places.]
devoted <08003> [was perfect.]
brought <0935> [he brought.]
holy <06944> [things. Heb. holy.]
Baasha <01201> [A.M. 3074. B.C. 930. Baasha.]
Ramah <07414> [Ramah.]
By building Ramah is here meant fortifying it, in order to prevent all intercourse with the kingdom of Judah, lest his subjects should cleave to the house of David: for Ramah was a city of Benjamin, situated on the confines of both kingdoms, probably on a hill, as the name imports, commanding a narrow defile between the mountains, through which lay the principal road to Jerusalem; so that a fortification being erected here, no communication could be held between the people of Israel and Judah, without Baasha's permission.
prevent <05414> [he might not suffer.]
