1 Kings 15:16-22
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.]
Asa ............................. He <0609> [Asa.]
Ben Hadad <01130> [Ben-hadad.]
Damascus <01834> [Damascus.]
treaty ....................... treaty <01285> [There is a league.]
treaty ..................... Break ... treaty <01285 06565> [break thy league.]
retreat <05927> [depart. Heb. go up.]
Ijon <05859> [Ijon.]
Probably the same as Hazar-enan, a frontier town to Damascus, (Eze 48:1;) and perhaps the Inna of Coele-Syria, long. 68 degrees and a half, lat. 33 degrees, according to Ptolemy.
Dan <01835> [Dan.]
Abel Beth Maacah <062> [Abel-beth-maachah.]
Kinnereth <03672> [Cinneroth.]
Baasha <01201> [when Baasha.]
Tirzah <08656> [Tirzah.]
ordered <08085> [made a proclamation.]
exemptions <05355> [exempted. Heb. free. Geba.]
[Gaba.]
Mizpah <04709> [Mizpah.]
[Mizpeh.]
