1st Kings Chapter 15 verse 16 Holy Bible
And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
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Now there was war between Asa and Baasha, king of Israel, all their days.
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And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
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And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
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And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
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There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
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And war hath been between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 16. - And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days [This statement must be compared with 2 Chronicles 14:1, 6, from which we gather that during the first ten years of Asa's reign there cannot have been war, properly so called, between them. Indeed, it would seem from 2 Chronicles 15:19; 2 Chronicles 16:1, that it was not until the 36th year of Asa's reign that it first broke out. But these numbers have clearly not escaped corruption (see note there), as at the date last mentioned Baasha must have been dead (cf. ver. 33 below). It is probable that war is to be taken here, as elsewhere (1 Kings 14:30), in the sense of hostility, and in any case we have here another instance of the hyperbolical habit of the Eastern mind.]
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(16) There was war . . .--According to 1Kings 15:33, Baasha reigned from the third to the twenty-seventh year of Asa. The phrase, here repeated from 1Kings 14:30, 1Kings 15:7, appears simply to mean that the old hostile relations remained, combined with, perhaps, some border war; for it is expressly said in 2Chronicles 14:1, that Asa's first ten years were peaceful, and the open war with Israel did not break out till after the victory over Zerah, in his fifteenth year.
