Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, by R.A. Torrey, [ca. 1880], at sacred-texts.com
3 Kings (1 Kings) Chapter 15
Overview
Kg1 15:1, Abijam's wicked reign; Kg1 15:7, Asa succeeds him; Kg1 15:9, Asa's good reign; Kg1 15:16, The war between Baasha and him causes him to make a league with Bed-hadad; Kg1 15:23, Jehoshaphat succeeds Asa; Kg1 15:25, Nadab's wicked reign; Kg1 15:27, Baasha conspiring against him, executes Ahijah's prophecy; Kg1 15:31, Nadab's acts and death; Kg1 15:33, Baasha's wicked reign.
his mother's: Kg1 15:13; Ch2 11:20-22
Maachah: Ch2 13:2, Michaiah the daughter of Uriel
Abishalom: Ch2 11:21, Absalom
all the sins: Kg1 14:21, Kg1 14:22
and his heart: Kg1 3:14, Kg1 11:4, Kg1 11:33; Kg2 20:3; Ch2 25:2, Ch2 31:20, Ch2 31:21; Psa 119:80
for David's: Kg1 11:12, Kg1 11:32; Gen 12:2, Gen 19:29, Gen 26:5; Deu 4:37; Sa2 7:12-16; Isa 37:35; Jer 33:20-26; Rom 11:28
give him: Kg1 11:36; Ch2 21:7; Psa 132:17; Luk 1:69-79, Luk 2:32; Joh 8:12; Rev 22:16
lamp: or, candle, Psa 18:28
and to establish: Psa 87:5; Isa 9:7, Isa 14:32, Isa 62:7; Jer 33:2; Mic 4:1, Mic 4:2; Mat 16:18
David: Kg1 15:3, Kg1 14:8; Kg2 22:2; Ch2 34:2; Psa 119:6; Luk 1:6; Act 13:22, Act 13:36
save only: Sa2 11:4, Sa2 11:15-17, Sa2 12:9, Sa2 12:10; Psa 51:1 *title
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 Kg1 14:30, and a repetition which interrupts the history of Abijah. (See note on Ch2 13:3, etc.) Kg1 14:30
the rest: Kg1 14:29; Ch2 13:2, Ch2 13:21, Ch2 13:22
there was war: 2Chr. 13:3-20
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Abijam: Kg1 14:1, Kg1 14:31; Ch2 14:1
Asa: Ch1 3:9; Mat 1:7, Mat 1:8
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mother's: that is, grandmother's. Kg1 15:2, Kg1 15:13; Ch2 11:20, Ch2 11:21, Ch2 13:2
Asa: Kg1 15:3; Ch2 14:2, Ch2 14:11, Ch2 15:17, Ch2 16:7-10
the sodomites: Kg1 14:24, Kg1 22:46; Rom 1:26, Rom 1:27; Jde 1:7
all the idols: Kg1 15:3, Kg1 11:7, Kg1 11:8, Kg1 14:23; Ch2 14:2-5; Eze 20:18, Eze 20:19; Zac 1:2-6; Pe1 1:18
Maachah: Kg1 15:2, Kg1 15:10; Ch2 15:15, Ch2 15:16-19
his mother: Deu 13:6-11, Deu 33:9; Zac 13:3; Mat 10:37, Mat 12:46-50; Co2 5:16; Gal 2:5, Gal 2:6, Gal 2:14
destroyed: Heb. cut off, Lev 26:30; Deu 7:5; Kg2 18:4, Kg2 23:12-15; Ch2 34:4
and burnt: Exo 32:20; Deu 9:21; Jos 6:24
the brook: Sa2 15:23; Kg2 23:6; Joh 18:1, Cedron
the high places: Kg1 22:43; Kg2 12:3, Kg2 14:4, Kg2 15:4; Ch2 14:3, Ch2 14:5
was perfect: Kg1 15:3, Kg1 8:61, Kg1 11:4; Ch2 15:17, Ch2 15:18, Ch2 16:9, Ch2 25:2
he brought: Kg1 7:51; Ch1 26:26-28; Ch2 14:13, Ch2 15:18
things: Heb. holy
Kg1 15:6, Kg1 15:7, Kg1 15:32, Kg1 14:30; Ch2 16:1-6
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Baasha: Kg1 15:27; Ch2 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. Kg1 15:21; Jos 18:25; Sa1 15:34; Jer 31:15
he might not suffer: Kg1 12:27; Ch2 11:13-17
Asa: Kg1 15:15, Kg1 14:26; Kg2 12:18, Kg2 18:15, Kg2 18:16; Ch2 15:18, Ch2 16:2-6
Benhadad: Kg1 20:1-5, Kg1 20:33, Kg1 20:34; Kg2 8:7-15
Damascus: Kg1 11:23, Kg1 11:24; Gen 14:15, Gen 15:2; Jer 49:27; Amo 1:4
There is a league: Ch2 19:2; Isa 31:1
break thy league: Sa2 21:2; Ch2 16:3; Eze 17:13-16; Rom 1:31, Rom 3:8
depart: Heb. go up
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. Kg2 15:29
Dan: Kg1 12:29; Gen 14:14; Jdg 18:29, Abel-beth-maachah, Sa2 20:14, Sa2 20:15
when Baasha: Ch2 16:5
Tirzah: Kg1 14:17, Kg1 16:15-18; Sol 6:4
made a proclamation: Ch2 16:6
exempted: Heb. free
Geba: Jos 18:24, Gaba, Jos 21:17
Mizpah: Jos 18:26; Sa1 7:5, Mizpeh, Jer 40:6, Jer 40:10
rest of all: Kg1 15:7, Kg1 15:8, Kg1 14:29-31
in the time: Ch2 16:12-14; Psa 90:10
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was buried: Of his splendid and costly funeral we read in Ch2 16:14.
Jehoshaphat: Kg1 22:41-43; Ch2 17:1-9; Mat 1:8, Josaphat
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began to reign: Heb. reigned
he did evil: Kg1 16:7, Kg1 16:25, Kg1 16:30
walked: Kg1 12:28-33, Kg1 13:33, Kg1 13:34
in his sin: Kg1 15:30, Kg1 15:34, Kg1 14:16, Kg1 16:19, Kg1 16:26, Kg1 21:22, Kg1 22:52; Gen 20:9; Exo 32:21; Sa1 2:24; Kg2 3:3, Kg2 21:11, Kg2 23:15; Jer 32:35; Rom 14:15; Co1 8:10-13
Baasha the son: Kg1 15:16, Kg1 15:17, Kg1 14:14
conspired: Kg1 16:9; Kg2 12:20
Gibbethon: Kg1 16:15, Kg1 16:17; Jos 19:44, Jos 21:23
he left not: Kg1 14:9-16; Kg2 9:7-10, Kg2 9:36, Kg2 9:37, Kg2 10:10, Kg2 10:11, Kg2 10:31, Kg2 19:25
the sins: Kg1 15:26, Kg1 14:9-16
by his provocation: Kg1 14:22
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are they not written: Kg1 14:19, Kg1 16:5, Kg1 16:14, Kg1 16:20, Kg1 16:27
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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 Ch2 15:19; Ch2 16:1, in the thirty-sixth year of Asa; but according to Kg1 16:8, Kg1 16:9, 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. Kg1 15:16
twenty and four years: Kg1 16:8
he did evil: Kg1 15:26
walked: Kg1 15:26, Kg1 12:28, Kg1 12:29, Kg1 13:33, Kg1 13:34, Kg1 14:16; Isa 1:4