1 Kings 15:16-17
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.]
1 Kings 15:31
recorded <03789> [A.M. 3050-3051. B.C. 954-953. are they not written.]
1 Kings 15:33
year ..................... twenty-four years <06242 0702 08141> [twenty and four years.]
