_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._ In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha ... came up. Baasha had died several years before... [ Continue Reading ]
_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-HA'DAD KING OF SYRIA, THAT DWELT AT DAMASCUS, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND BEN-HA'DAD HEARKENED UNTO KING ASA, AND SENT THE CAPTAINS OF HIS ARMIES AGAINST THE CITIES OF ISRAEL; AND THEY SMOTE IJON, AND DAN, AND ABELMAIM, AND ALL THE STORE CITIES OF NAPHTALI._ Ben-hadad ... sent the captains of his armies ... and they smote ... Abel-maim - `the meadow of waters,' supp... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN BAASHA HEARD IT, THAT HE LEFT OFF BUILDING OF RAMAH, AND LET HIS WORK CEASE._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND AT THAT TIME HANANI THE SEER CAME TO ASA KING OF JUDAH, AND SAID UNTO HIM, BECAUSE THOU HAST RELIED ON THE KING OF SYRIA, AND NOT RELIED ON THE LORD THY GOD, THEREFORE IS THE HOST OF THE KING OF SYRIA ESCAPED OUT OF THINE HAND._ Hanani the seer came to Asa ... and said. His object was to show... [ Continue Reading ]
_WERE NOT THE ETHIOPIANS AND THE LUBIMS A HUGE HOST, WITH VERY MANY CHARIOTS AND HORSEMEN? YET, BECAUSE THOU DIDST RELY ON THE LORD, HE DELIVERED THEM INTO THINE HAND._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN ASA WAS WROTH WITH THE SEER, AND PUT HIM IN A PRISON HOUSE; FOR HE WAS IN A RAGE WITH HIM BECAUSE OF THIS THING. AND ASA OPPRESSED SOME OF THE PEOPLE THE SAME TIME._ Asa oppressed some of the people the same time. What was the form or degree of this oppression is not recorded. The cause of hi... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND, BEHOLD, THE ACTS OF ASA, FIRST AND LAST, LO, THEY ARE WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE KINGS OF JUDAH AND ISRAEL._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ASA IN THE THIRTY AND NINTH YEAR OF HIS REIGN WAS DISEASED IN HIS FEET, UNTIL HIS DISEASE WAS EXCEEDING GREAT: YET IN HIS DISEASE HE SOUGHT NOT TO THE LORD, BUT TO THE PHYSICIANS._ Diseased in his feet - probably the gout. HIS DISEASE WAS EXCEEDING GREAT - better, 'moved upwards' in his body... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ASA SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS, AND DIED IN THE ONE AND FORTIETH YEAR OF HIS REIGN._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY BURIED HIM IN HIS OWN SEPULCHRES, WHICH HE HAD MADE FOR HIMSELF IN THE CITY OF DAVID, AND LAID HIM IN THE BED WHICH WAS FILLED WITH SWEET ODOURS AND DIVERS KINDS OF SPICES PREPARED BY THE APOTHECARIES' ART: AND THEY MADE A VERY GREAT BURNING FOR HIM._ They buried him in his own sepulchres... [ Continue Reading ]