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2 Chronicles 16:6

2 Chronicles 16:6
Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha was building; and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah.

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Matthew Henry

2 Chronicles 16:1-6

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

Cambridge Bible

took all Judah In 1 Kin. summoned all Judah(so translate); none was exempted.

was a building R.V. had builded.

Geba and Mizpah The names signify, "the hill and the watch-tower." The two cities were on…