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1 Kings 15:26 KJV
1 Kings · chapter 15 · verse 26
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.1 Kings 15:26 · King James Version
1 Kings 15:26 in context
24And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.
25And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years.
26And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
27And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.
28Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- walkedyâlakto walkH3212 →
- fatherʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- sightʻayinan eyeH5869 →
- evilraʻbad or evilH7451 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
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We are now to take a view of the miserable state of Israel, while the kingdom of Judah was happy under Asa's good government. It was threatened that they should be as a reed shaken in the water (Kg1 14:15), and so they were, when, during the single reign of Asa, the government of their kingdom was in six or seven…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 25-34