2 Chronicles 14:1

2 Chronicles 14:1-5 (cp. 1 Kings 15:8-12). The Religious Policy of Asa

1. ten years These tenyears of rest are naturally to be assigned to the beginning of Asa's reign; later on there was a rest of twentyyears (cp. 2 Chronicles 15:10 with 2 Chronicles 15:19). The number tenhere makes a discrepancy with 1 Kin., for Baasha became king of Israel in the thirdyear of Asa (1 Kings 15:28; 1 Kings 15:33), and "there was war between Asa and Baasha all their days" (ib.1 Kings 15:32). If, however, we allow some latitude to the language both of 1 Kin. and of Chron., the discrepancy becomes unimportant.