1 Kings 15:16

Christian Standard Bible ®

There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel throughout their reigns.

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Now there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And there was warre betweene Asa, & Baasa king of Israel all their dayes.

New King James Version
Now there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

Literal Translation
And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

Easy-to-Read Version
The whole time that King Asa was king of Judah, he fought a war against King Baasha of Israel.

Revised Standard Version
And there was war between Asa and Ba'asha king of Israel all their days.

World English Bible
There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

King James Version (1611)
And there was war betweene Asa and Baasha King of Israel all their dayes.

King James Version
And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And there was warre betwene Asa & Baesa the kynge of Israel, as longe as they lyued.

THE MESSAGE
But through much of his reign there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel. Baasha king of Israel started it by building a fort at Ramah and closing the border between Israel and Judah so no one could enter or leave Judah.

American Standard Version
And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

Bible in Basic English
Now there was war between Asa and Baasha, king of Israel, all their days.

Update Bible Version
And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

Webster's Bible Translation
And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

New English Translation
Now Asa and King Baasha of Israel were continually at war with each other.

Contemporary English Version
Asa was always at war with King Baasha of Israel.

Complete Jewish Bible
There was war between Asa and Ba‘sha king of Isra'el as long as they both lived.

Darby Translation
And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And there was warre betweene Asa and Baasha King of Israel all their dayes.

George Lamsa Translation
And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

Amplified Bible
Now there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

Hebrew Names Version
There was war between Asa and Ba`sha king of Yisra'el all their days.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And there was war between Asa and Baasa king of Israel all their days.

New Living Translation
There was constant war between King Asa of Judah and King Baasha of Israel.

New Life Bible
There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

New Revised Standard
There was war between Asa and King Baasha of Israel all their days.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And there was war between Asa and Baasa king of Israel all their days.

English Revised Version
And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

Berean Standard Bible
Now there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel throughout their days.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And there was, war, between Asa and Baasha king of Israel, all their days.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And there was war between Asa, and Baasa, king of Israel, all their days.

Lexham English Bible
There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all of their days.

English Standard Version
And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

New American Standard Bible
Now there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

New Century Version
There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all the time they were kings.

Good News Translation
King Asa of Judah and King Baasha of Israel were constantly at war with each other as long as they were in power.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe batel was bitwixe Asa and Baasa, kyng of Israel, in alle the daies of hem.

Young's Literal Translation
And war hath been between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days,

Contextual Overview

⁹ In the twentieth year of Israel's King Jeroboam, Asa became king of Judah ¹⁰ and reigned 41 years in Jerusalem. His grandmother's name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom. ¹¹ Asa did what was right in the Lord 's eyes, as his ancestor David had done. ¹² He banished the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all of the idols that his fathers had made. ¹³ He also removed his grandmother Maacah from being queen mother because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. Asa chopped down her obscene image and burned it in the Kidron Valley. ¹⁴ The high places were not taken away; but Asa's heart was completely devoted to the Lord his entire life. ¹⁵ He brought his father's consecrated gifts and his own consecrated gifts into the Lord 's temple: silver, gold, and utensils. ¹⁶ There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel throughout their reigns. ¹⁷ Israel's King Baasha went to war against Judah. He built Ramah in order to deny anyone access to Judah's King Asa. ¹⁸ So Asa withdrew all the silver and gold that remained in the treasuries of the Lord 's temple and the treasuries of the royal palace and put it into the hands of his servants. Then King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad son of Tabrimmon son of Hezion king of Aram who lived in Damascus, saying,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Kings 15:6, 1 Kings 15:7, 1 Kings 15:32, 1 Kings 14:30, 2 Chronicles 16:1-6

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 3:1 - long war 1 Kings 15:27 - Baasha the son 2 Chronicles 15:19 - five and thirtieth

Cross-References

Genesis 15:5
He took him outside and said, "Look at the sky and count the stars, if you are able to count them." Then He said to him, "Your offspring will be that numerous."

Genesis 15:8
But he said, "Lord God , how can I know that I will possess it?"

Genesis 15:9
He said to him, "Bring Me a three-year-old cow, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."

Genesis 15:11
Birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.

Exodus 12:40
The time that the Israelites lived in Egypt was 430 years.

1 Kings 21:26
He committed the most detestable acts by going after idols as the Amorites had, whom the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.

Daniel 8:23
Near the end of their kingdoms, when the rebels have reached the full measure of their sin, an insolent king, skilled in intrigue, will come to the throne.

1 Thessalonians 2:16
hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. As a result, they are always completing the number of their sins, and wrath has overtaken them at last.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days:] That is as long as they lived together; for Baasha died many years before Asa, and this must be reckoned from the time the war began between them. Baasha did not begin his reign until the third year of Asa, 1 Kings 15:25 and in the first ten years of Asa's reign the land was quiet and free from war, 2 Chronicles 14:1 of which there must be seven in the reign of Baasha, who is here made mention of out of course, for Nadab reigned before him, 1 Kings 15:25, the reason of which Abarbinel thinks is, that the historian, having given an account of the good deeds of Asa, relates his failings before he proceeds to the other part of his history.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Baasha became king of Israel in the third year of Asa 1 Kings 15:33. The petty warfare which ordinarily prevailed on the borders of the two kingdoms continued “all the days” of Asa and Baasha. During the first ten years of Asa’s reign he was little molested 2 Chronicles 14:1, 2 Chronicles 14:6.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 15:16. There was war — That is, there was continual enmity; see on 1 Kings 15:6. But there was no open war till the thirty-sixth year of Asa, when Baasha, king of Israel, began to build Ramah, that he might prevent all communication between Israel and Judah; see 2 Chronicles 15:19; 2 Chronicles 16:1. But this does not agree with what is said here, 1 Kings 16:8-9, that Elah, the son and successor of Baasha, was killed by Zimri, in the twenty-sixth year of the reign of Asa. Chronologers endeavour to reconcile this by saying that the years should be reckoned, not from the beginning of the reign of Asa, but from the separation of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. It is most certain that Baasha could not make war upon Asa in the thirty-sixth year of his reign, when it is evident from this chapter that he was dead in the twenty-sixth year of that king. We must either adopt the mode of solution given by chronologists, or grant that there is a mistake in some of the numbers; most likely in the parallel places in Chronicles, but which we have no direct means of correcting. But the reader may compare 2 Chronicles 14:1, with 2 Chronicles 15:10; 2 Chronicles 15:19; 2 Chronicles 16:1.