1 Kings 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.]
1 Kings 15:33
year ..................... twenty-four years <06242 0702 08141> [twenty and four years.]
1 Kings 16:3
family ... make ... family .... family <01004 05414> [will make thy house.]
1 Kings 16:5
rest <03499> [A.M. 3051-3074. B.C. 953-930. the rest.]
1 Kings 16:8
twenty-sixth <06242> [A.M. 3075. B.C. 929. In the twenty.]
Baasha began to reign in the third year of Asa, and reigned 24 years; yet he died and was succeeded by Elah in the 26th year of Asa; and, in like manner, Elah, who began to reign in the 26th year of Asa, and was killed in the 27th, is said to have reigned two years. Thus it is evident that a part of a year is calculated as a whole year. In the Chinese annals, the whole year in which a king dies is ascribed to his reign, the years of the succeeding king being reckoned only from the beginning of the following year.
1 Kings 16:11
killed <05221> [he slew.]
male <07604 08366> [he left him.]
relatives .... friends <01350 07453> [neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends. or, both his kinsmen and his friends.]
1 Kings 21:22
make ... dynasty <05414 01004> [make thine.]
Israel sin <02398 03478> [made Israel to sin.]
1 Kings 15:19
treaty ....................... treaty <01285> [There is a league.]
treaty ..................... Break ... treaty <01285 06565> [break thy league.]
retreat <05927> [depart. Heb. go up.]
1 Kings 15:22
ordered <08085> [made a proclamation.]
exemptions <05355> [exempted. Heb. free. Geba.]
[Gaba.]
Mizpah <04709> [Mizpah.]
[Mizpeh.]
1 Kings 16:7
predicting <03027> [the hand.]
family ............................ dynasty <01004> [and against his house.]
angered <03707> [in provoking.]
actions <04639> [with the work.]
<05221> [because he killed him.]
This the Vulgate understands of Jehu the prophet; some think Baasha is intended; others Nadab the son of Jeroboam; and others Jeroboam, whom Baasha destroyed in his posterity by cruelly murdering them all.
1 Kings 16:13
Lord <03068> [in provoking.]
worthless idols <01892> [vanities.]
