1 Kings 15 · Verse 16

1 Kings 15:16

And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
1 Kings 15:16, King James Version

1 Kings 15:16 in other translations

BSBNow there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel throughout their days.
WEBThere was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
ASVAnd there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
YLTAnd war hath been between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days,
DARBYAnd there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
BBENow there was war between Asa and Baasha, king of Israel, all their days.
WebsterAnd there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

What does 1 Kings 15:16 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Kings 15:16-17
16-17. there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days--Asa enjoyed a ten years' peace after Jeroboam's defeat by Abijam, and this interval was wisely and energetically spent in making internal reforms, as well as increasing the means of national defense (2Ch 14:1-7). In the fifteenth year of his reign, however, the king of Israel commenced hostilities against him, and, invading his kingdom, erected a strong fortress at Ramah, which was near Gibeah, and only six Roman miles from Jerusalem. Afraid lest his subjects might quit his kingdom and return to the worship of their fathers, he wished to cut off all intercourse between the two nations. Ramah stood on an eminence overhanging a narrow ravine which separated Israel from Judah, and therefore he took up a hostile position in that place.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 16 There was war - That is, there was continual enmity; see on 1Kgs 15:6 (note). But there was no open war till the thirty-sixth year of Asa, when Baasha, king of Israel, began to build Ramah, that he might prevent all communication between Israel and Judah; see 2Chr 15:19; 2Chr 16:1. But this does not agree with what is said here, 1Kgs 16:8, 1Kgs 16:9, that Elah, the son and successor of Baasha, was killed by Zimri, in the twenty-sixth year of the reign of Asa. Chronologers endeavor to reconcile this by saying that the years should be reckoned, not from the beginning of the reign of Asa, but from the separation of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. It is most certain that Baasha could not make war upon Asa in the thirty-sixth year of his reign, when it is evident from this chapter that he was dead in the twenty-sixth year of that king. We must either adopt the mode of solution given by chronologists, or grant that there is a mistake in some of the numbers; most likely in the parallel places in Chronicles, but which we have no direct means of correcting. But the reader may compare 2Chr 14:1, with 2Chr 15:10, 2Chr 15:19; 2Chr 16:1.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Kings 15:9-24

Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord. That is right indeed which is so in God's eyes. Asa's times were times of reformation. He removed that which was evil; there reformation begins, and a great deal he found to do. When Asa found idolatry in the court, he rooted it out thence. Reformation must begin at home. Asa honours and respects his mother; he loves her well, but he loves God better. Those that have…

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1 Kings 15:16 in the original Hebrew

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וּמִלְחָמָ֨הu.mil.cha.Mahand warH4421
הָיְתָ֜הha.ye.Tahit wasH1961
בֵּ֣יןbeinbetweenH996
אָסָ֗א'a.Sa'AsaH609
וּבֵ֛יןu.Veinand betweenH996
בַּעְשָׁ֥אba'.Sha'BaashaH1201
מֶֽלֶךְ\־Me.lekh-[the] king ofH4428
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478
כָּל\־kol-allH3605
יְמֵיהֶֽם\׃ye.mei.Hemdays theirH3117

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 1 Kings 15:16

  • 1 Kings 15:32

    And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

  • 2 Chronicles 16:1-6

    In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah, and built Ramah, to the intent that he might let none go out or come in to Asa king of Judah. Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of the Lord and of the king’s house, and sent to Ben–hadad king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying, There is a league between me and thee, as there was between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me. And Ben–hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel–maim, and all the store cities of Naphtali. …

  • 1 Kings 15:6-7

    And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life. Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

  • 1 Kings 14:30

    And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
6,7,32; 14:30; 2Ch 16:1-6

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Context

  • 1 Kings 15:15

    And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which himself had dedicated, into the house of the Lord, silver, and gold, and vessels.

  • 1 Kings 15:16

    And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

  • 1 Kings 15:17

    And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

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1 Kings 15:16 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y hubo guerra entre Asa y Baasa rey de Israel, todo el tiempo de ambos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et il y eut guerre entre Asa et Baësha, roi d’Israël, tous leurs jours.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und es war Krieg zwischen Asa und Baesa, dem König von Israel, alle ihre Tage.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Bellum autem erat inter Asa, et Baasa regem Israël cunctis diebus eorum.