1 Kings 15:27

of the house of Issachar Jeroboam's family was of the tribe of Ephraim (1 Kings 11:26), and it may have been some tribal jealousy which led a man of Issachar to exterminate the whole family of Jeroboam, and to found a new dynasty. From the message of the prophet Jehu to Baasha (1 Kings 14:1-2) it would appear as if Baasha's attempt had been sanctioned by some divine message. But none the more did Baasha improve upon the conduct of the two kings of the previous house.

at Gibbethon, whichbelongeth [R.V. belonged] to the Philistines Scrivener's edition of 1611 reads belongeth. This was a town allotted originally to the tribe of Dan (Joshua 19:44), and was given as a Levitical city to the Kohathites (Joshua 21:23), but it had been by this time taken by the Philistines, and Nadab was endeavouring to drive them out. The verb belongethis only indicated by the preposition which is prefixed to the word Philistines, and we need not understand more by it than occupation such as conquerors take.

all Israel laid siege R.V. were laying siege. The work was still in progress, and was not completed even in Baasha's reign. Cf. 1 Kings 16:15.