And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.
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Baasha ... of the house of Issachar - It is curious to find Issachar furnishing a king. Tola, its one very undistinguished Judge Jdg 10:1, on obtaining office had at once settled himself in the…
Adam Clarke
Smote him at Gabbethon - This was a city in the tribe of Dan, and generally in the possession of the Philistines.
We are now to take a view of the miserable state of Israel, while the kingdom of Judah was happy under Asa's good government. It was threatened that they should be as a reed shaken in the water (Kg1…
Cambridge Bible
of the house of Issachar Jeroboam's family was of the tribe of Ephraim (1Ki 11:26), and it may have been some tribal jealousy which led a man of Issachar to exterminate the whole family of Jeroboam,…
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