2 Chronicles 16:1

2 Chronicles 16:1-6 (1 Kings 15:17-22). Asa asks help of Ben-hadad

1. the six and thirtieth year According to 1 Kings 16:8 Baasha was succeeded by his son Elah in the six-and-twentieth year of Asa. The number thirty-sixis probably therefore wrong. It should be noticed however that the thirty-sixthyear of the separate kingdom of Judah corresponds with the sixteenthyear of Asa, so that possibly two different reckonings are here confused, and so we should read, In the six-and-thirtieth year, that is, in the sixteenth year of Asa. So in 2 Chronicles 15:19 we should read, in the five-and-thirtieth, that is, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

Ramah The modern er-Râm, situated on a commanding hill about two hours north of Jerusalem. Bädeker, p. 212.

thathe might let none go out R.V. that he might not suffer any to go out (as in 1 Kin.).