- Bible
- 1 Kings
- Chapter 15
- Verse 33
1 Kings 15:33
In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.
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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…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
in Tirzah, twenty and four years To complete the sense the R.V. inserts in italics after -Tirzah" the words - and reigned."
Tirzah seems to have become by this time a more common royal residence than…