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1 Kings 15:33 KJV
1 Kings · chapter 15 · verse 33
In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.1 Kings 15:33 · King James Version
1 Kings 15:33 in context
31Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
32And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
33In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.
34And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- BaashaBaʻshâʼBasha, a king of IsraelH1201 →
- AhijahʼĂchîyâhAchijah, the name of nine IsraelitesH281 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- thirdshâlôwshthreeH7969 →
- JudahYᵉhûwdâhJehudah , the name of five IsraelitesH3063 →
- reignmâlakto reignH4427 →
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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