1 Kings 15:17

15:17

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.]