2 Chronicles 16:5
And it came to pass, when Baasha heard it, that he left off building of Ramah, and let his work cease.
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How to reconcile the date of this event with the history of the kings I am quite at a loss. Baasha died in the twenty-sixth year of Asa, Kg1 16:8. How then could this be done in his thirty-sixth year,…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
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and let his work cease In 1 Kin. and dwelt in Tirzah(Heb.), and returned to Tirzah(LXX.). Baasha (like Jeroboam; 1Ki 14:17) fixed his seat of government at Tirzah in the centre of the Northern Kingdom…