Chapter 15

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1Kgs 14:31; 2Chr 13:1, 2Chr 13:2-22


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his mother's 1Kgs 15:13; 2Chr 11:20-22

Maachah 2Chr 13:2, Michaiah the daughter of Uriel

Abishalom 2Chr 11:21, Absalom


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all the sins 1Kgs 14:21-22

and his heart 1Kgs 3:14, 1Kgs 11:4, 1Kgs 11:33; 2Kgs 20:3; 2Chr 25:2, 2Chr 31:20-21; Ps 119:80


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for David's 1Kgs 11:12, 1Kgs 11:32; Gen 12:2, Gen 19:29, Gen 26:5; Deut 4:37; 2Sam 7:12-16; Isa 37:35; Jer 33:20-26; Rom 11:28

give him 1Kgs 11:36; 2Chr 21:7; Ps 132:17; Luke 1:69-79, Luke 2:32; John 8:12; Rev 22:16

lamp or, candle, Ps 18:28

and to establish Ps 87:5; Isa 9:7, Isa 14:32, Isa 62:7; Jer 33:2; Mic 4:1-2; Matt 16:18


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David 1Kgs 15:3, 1Kgs 14:8; 2Kgs 22:2; 2Chr 34:2; Ps 119:6; Luke 1:6; Acts 13:22, Acts 13:36

save only 2Sam 11:4, 2Sam 11:15-17, 2Sam 12:9-10; Ps 51:1 *title


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there was war Instead of Rehoboam fourteen manuscripts, 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 1Kgs 14:30, and a repetition which interrupts the history of Abijah. (See note on 2Chr 13:3, etc.) 1Kgs 14:30


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the rest 1Kgs 14:29; 2Chr 13:2, 2Chr 13:21-22

there was war 2Chr 13:3-20


8
am 3049, bc 955

Abijam 1Kgs 14:1, 1Kgs 14:31; 2Chr 14:1

Asa 1Chr 3:9; Matt 1:7-8


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am 3049-3090, bc 955-914

mother's that is, grandmother's. 1Kgs 15:2, 1Kgs 15:13; 2Chr 11:20-21, 2Chr 13:2


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Asa 1Kgs 15:3; 2Chr 14:2, 2Chr 14:11, 2Chr 15:17, 2Chr 16:7-10


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the sodomites 1Kgs 14:24, 1Kgs 22:46; Rom 1:26-27; Jude 1:7

all the idols 1Kgs 15:3, 1Kgs 11:7-8, 1Kgs 14:23; 2Chr 14:2-5; Ezek 20:18-19; Zech 1:2-6; 1Pet 1:18


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Maachah 1Kgs 15:2, 1Kgs 15:10; 2Chr 15:15, 2Chr 15:16-19

his mother Deut 13:6-11, Deut 33:9; Zech 13:3; Matt 10:37, Matt 12:46-50; 2Cor 5:16; Gal 2:5-6, Gal 2:14

destroyed Heb. cut off, Lev 26:30; Deut 7:5; 2Kgs 18:4, 2Kgs 23:12-15; 2Chr 34:4

and burnt Exod 32:20; Deut 9:21; Josh 6:24

the brook 2Sam 15:23; 2Kgs 23:6; John 18:1, Cedron


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the high places 1Kgs 22:43; 2Kgs 12:3, 2Kgs 14:4, 2Kgs 15:4; 2Chr 14:3, 2Chr 14:5

was perfect 1Kgs 15:3, 1Kgs 8:61, 1Kgs 11:4; 2Chr 15:17-18, 2Chr 16:9, 2Chr 25:2


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he brought 1Kgs 7:51; 1Chr 26:26-28; 2Chr 14:13, 2Chr 15:18

things Heb. holy


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1Kgs 15:6-7, 1Kgs 15:32, 1Kgs 14:30; 2Chr 16:1-6


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am 3074, bc 930

Baasha 1Kgs 15:27; 2Chr 16:1-6

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. 1Kgs 15:21; Josh 18:25; 1Sam 15:34; Jer 31:15

he might not suffer 1Kgs 12:27; 2Chr 11:13-17


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Asa 1Kgs 15:15, 1Kgs 14:26; 2Kgs 12:18, 2Kgs 18:15-16; 2Chr 15:18, 2Chr 16:2-6

Benhadad 1Kgs 20:1-5, 1Kgs 20:33-34; 2Kgs 8:7-15

Damascus 1Kgs 11:23-24; Gen 14:15, Gen 15:2; Jer 49:27; Amos 1:4


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There is a league 2Chr 19:2; Isa 31:1

break thy league 2Sam 21:2; 2Chr 16:3; Ezek 17:13-16; Rom 1:31, Rom 3:8

depart Heb. go up


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Ijon Probably the same as Hazar-enan, a frontier town to Damascus (Ezek 48:1); and perhaps the Inna of Coele-Syria, long. 68 degrees and a half, lat. 33 degrees, according to Ptolemy. 2Kgs 15:29

Dan 1Kgs 12:29; Gen 14:14; Judg 18:29, Abel-beth-maachah, 2Sam 20:14-15

Cinneroth Josh 11:2, Josh 12:3


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when Baasha 2Chr 16:5

Tirzah 1Kgs 14:17, 1Kgs 16:15-18; Song 6:4


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made a proclamation 2Chr 16:6

exempted Heb. free

Geba Josh 18:24, Gaba, Josh 21:17

Mizpah Josh 18:26; 1Sam 7:5, Mizpeh, Jer 40:6, Jer 40:10


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rest of all 1Kgs 15:7-8, 1Kgs 14:29-31

in the time 2Chr 16:12-14; Ps 90:10


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am 3090, bc 914

was buried Of his splendid and costly funeral we read in 2Chr 16:14.

Jehoshaphat 1Kgs 22:41-43; 2Chr 17:1-9; Matt 1:8, Josaphat


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am 3050-3051, bc 954-953

Nadab 1Kgs 14:12, 1Kgs 14:20

began to reign Heb. reigned


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he did evil 1Kgs 16:7, 1Kgs 16:25, 1Kgs 16:30

walked 1Kgs 12:28-33, 1Kgs 13:33-34

in his sin 1Kgs 15:30, 1Kgs 15:34, 1Kgs 14:16, 1Kgs 16:19, 1Kgs 16:26, 1Kgs 21:22, 1Kgs 22:52; Gen 20:9; Exod 32:21; 1Sam 2:24; 2Kgs 3:3, 2Kgs 21:11, 2Kgs 23:15; Jer 32:35; Rom 14:15; 1Cor 8:10-13


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Baasha the son 1Kgs 15:16-17, 1Kgs 14:14

conspired 1Kgs 16:9; 2Kgs 12:20

Gibbethon 1Kgs 16:15, 1Kgs 16:17; Josh 19:44, Josh 21:23


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Deut 32:35


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he left not 1Kgs 14:9-16; 2Kgs 9:7-10, 2Kgs 9:36-37, 2Kgs 10:10-11, 2Kgs 10:31, 2Kgs 19:25


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the sins 1Kgs 15:26, 1Kgs 14:9-16

by his provocation 1Kgs 14:22


31
am 3050-3051, bc 954-953

are they not written 1Kgs 14:19, 1Kgs 16:5, 1Kgs 16:14, 1Kgs 16:20, 1Kgs 16:27


32
am 3051-3074, bc 953-930

there was war That is, there was a constant spirit of hostility kept up between the two kingdoms, and no doubt frequent skirmishing between the bordering parties; but there was no open war till Baasha king of Israel began to build Ramah, which was, according to 2Chr 15:19; 2Chr 16:1, in the thirty-sixth year of Asa; but according to 1Kgs 16:8-9, his son was killed by Zimri in the twenty-sixth year of Asa, and consequently he could not make war upon him in the thirty-sixth year of his reign. Chronologers endeavour to reconcile this, by saying that the years should be reckoned, not from the beginning of Asa's reign, but from the separation of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. We must either adopt this mode of solution, or admit that there is a mistake in some of the numbers, probably in the parallel places in Chronicles, but which we have no direct means of correcting. 1Kgs 15:16


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twenty and four years 1Kgs 16:8


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he did evil 1Kgs 15:26

walked 1Kgs 15:26, 1Kgs 12:28-29, 1Kgs 13:33-34, 1Kgs 14:16; Isa 1:4


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