Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
2 Chronicles 16:1
This passage runs parallel with Kings (see the marginal reference).
This passage runs parallel with Kings (see the marginal reference).
CHAPTER XVI _Baasha, king of Israel, begins to build Ramah, to prevent his_ _subjects from having any intercourse with the Jews_, 1. _Asa hires Ben-hadad, king of Syria, against him; and obliges_...
CHAPTER 16 ASA'S RELAPSE AND DEATH _ 1. War between Asa and Baasha (2 Chronicles 16:1)_ 2. Hanani's rebuke (2 Chronicles 16:7) 3. Hanani imprisoned (2 Chronicles 16:10)
Taken from 1 Kings 15:16 with unimportant variations. 2 CHRONICLES 16:7. With the words of 2 Chronicles 16:9, from henceforth thou shalt have wars, contrast...
IN THE, &C. This chapter is complementary to 1 Kings 15:17. six and thirtieth. The thirty-sixth year of the kingdom: i.e. from the disruption of the kingdom of Judah. This agrees with all the other da...
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....
IN THE SIX-AND-THIRTIETH YEAR OF THE REIGN— _In the twenty-sixth year;_ Houbigant: for Baasha died in the twenty-sixth year of Asa....
4. THE REIGN OF ASA (14-16) TEXT 2 Chronicles 14:1. So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land was quiet te...
_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 s...
SIX AND THIRTIETH] Since, according to 1 Kings 16:8, BAASHA did not live until the 36th year of ASA. some have supposed that the SIX AND THIRTIETH YEAR is reckoned from the revolt of the Ten Tribes....
REIGN OF ASA (CONCLUDED) This chapter reproduces with some verbal differences 1 Kings 15:17, but adds an account of a rebuke received by Asa from the seer Hanani....
2 CHRONICLES: GOD DESIRES LOYAL PEOPLE The *Kingdom called Judah 2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER S 10 TO 36 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 16 ASA AND BEN-HADAD – 2 CHRONICLES 16:1-6 V1 In the 36th
XVI. THE WAR WITH BAASHA — (2 Chronicles 16:1). Comp. 1 Kings 15:17. (1) IN THE SIX AND THIRTIETH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF ASA BAASHA KING OF ISRAEL CAME UP. — According to 1 Kings 15:33;...
בִּ שְׁנַ֨ת שְׁלֹשִׁ֤ים וָ שֵׁשׁ֙ לְ מַלְכ֣וּ
ASA: DIVINE RETRIBUTION 2 Chronicles 14:1; 2 Chronicles 15:1; 2 Chronicles 16:1 ABIJAH, dying, as far as we can gather from Chronicles, in the odor of sanctity, was succeeded by his so
This is a very sad chapter, telling as it does the story of the lapse of a man who, considering the conditions under which he lived, had for six and thirty years been so remarkably true to God. When B...
In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa (a) Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah, and built (b) Ramah, to the intent that he might let none go out or come in to Asa king of Judah. (a...
Six and thirtieth year of his kingdom. That is, of the kingdom of Juda, taking the date of it from the beginning of the reign of Roboam. Ch. --- It was the 16th of Asa. We read that Raasa died in the...
CONTENTS This chapter closeth the history of Asa. After a long reign, and long prosperity, in consequence of new troubles arising, Asa sends to the king of Syria for aid. Being reproved for it by the...
Here is a melancholy account of Asa after such an illustrious relation as we have had of him before. Is it possible that the man who had been so highly favored of the Lord; had entered into covenant w...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 THROUGH 16. In his wars with Jeroboam, Abijah stands entirely upon this ground, and he is blessed. Asa follows his steps; and, whether at peace, or while...
IN THE THIRTY AND SIXTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF ASA BAASHA KING OF ISRAEL CAME UP AGAINST JUDAH,.... How this is to be reconciled with the reign of Baasha, which was but twenty four years, and was begun...
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. Ver. 1. _I...
_In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa_ This date disagrees so much with what is said 1 Kings 15:33, that there seems to be no other way of reconciling the two passages, but allowing that...
1 Asa, by the aide of the Syrians, diuerteth Baasha from building of Ramah. 7 Being reproued thereof by Hanani, he putteth him in prison. 11 Among his other actes in his disease he seeketh not to Go...
In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa, or, more exactly, so many years after the division of the kingdom, in Asa's sixteenth year, BAASHA, KING OF ISRAEL, the successor of Nadab, who follo...
Asa's League with Damascus...
ASA GOES TO THE WORLD FOR HELP (vv.1-6) Baasha, king of Israel, had become alarmed at the thought of some from Israel defecting to Judah, Therefore he came and built Ramah as a buffer between the tw...
2 CHRONICLES CHAPTER 16 Asa maketh a league with the Syrians against the king of Israel, 2 CHRONICLES 16:1; for which the prophet reproving him, he putteth him into prison, 2 CHRONICLES 16:7. He is si...
2 Chronicles 16:1 thirty-sixth H7970 H8337 year H8141 reign H4438 Asa H609 Baasha H1201 king H4428 Israel H3478
TO ASA That is, none of his subjects. (2 Chronicles 16:5); (2 Chronicles 16:6); (2 Chronicles 15:9)....
CONTENTS: War between Asa and Baasha. Asa's rebuke and death. CHARACTERS: God, Asa, Hanani, Baasha, Ben-hadad. CONCLUSION: God is much displeased when He is distrusted and when the arm of flesh is r...
2 Chronicles 16:1. _In the six and thirtieth year._ Baasha began to reign the third year of Asa, and he reigned twenty four years. 1 Kings 15:33. And when obliged by Benhadad to abandon the fortificat...
_Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasuries of the house of the Lord._ THE FOLLY OF BRIBERY Trust in man, not in God-- I. Led to sacrilege in religious things. Gifts bestowed or pro...
2 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 2 CHRONICLES 16:1 IN THE THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF ASA (c. 876 or 875 B.C.), BAASHA KING OF ISRAEL WENT UP AGAINST JUDAH. The text raises a problem, since Baasha had alre
CRITICAL NOTES.] As a prevents Baasha from invading Judah (2 Chronicles 16:1); Asa reproved by Hanani (2 Chronicles 16:7); Asa’s sickness and end (2 Chronicles 16:11; _cf._ parallel in...
EXPOSITION The contents of this chapter fall easily into three parts: Asa's conflict with Baasha (2 Chronicles 16:1; parallel, 1 Kings 15:16-11); Hanani's rebuke of Asa, and Asa's ill reception of it...
In the thirty-sixth year of his reign, Baasha who was now the king of Israel started to fortify the city of Ramah, north of Jerusalem, in order that he might cut off all of the trade that is coming in...
1 Kings 12:27; 1 Kings 15:16; 2 Chronicles 11:13; 2 Chronicles 15:5;...
Of the reign — Or, of the kingdom of Asa, that is, of the kingdom of Judah, which was now Asa's kingdom; or from the time of the division of the two kingdoms. Rehoboam reigned seventeen years, Abijah...
How can this verse say Baasha king of Israel built Ramah in the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Asa? PROBLEM: Asa began his reign in about 911 B.C. The thirty-sixth year of his reign would have been...