went up against Judah and built Ramah This act of Baasha's shews us that Israel must by this time have recovered some of the power and territory which had been taken from them in Jeroboam's reign (2 Chronicles 13:19). Ramah, though lying in the hill country of Ephraim, was among the places allotted to the tribe of Benjamin (Joshua 18:25), so that it must have been very near to Jerusalem, and to make a fortress of it, as Baasha was now doing, was like making a blockade of Jerusalem, a condition which is described in the words which immediately follow.

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