1 Kings 15:32

New Living Translation

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
There was war between Asa and King Baasha of Israel throughout their reigns.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Contemporary English Version
King Asa of Judah and King Baasha of Israel were always at war.

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.

Easy-to-Read Version
All during the time that Baasha ruled over Israel, he was fighting wars against King Asa of Judah.

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

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.

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

Literal Translation
And there was war between Asa and Baasha the 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.

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

Bible in Basic English
And 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.

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

King James Version (1611)
And there was warre betweene Asa and Baasha king of Israel al their dayes.

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

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

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

Young's Literal Translation
And war hath been 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.

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

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

New Life Bible
And 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.

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, the king of Israel, all their days.

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

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

Contextual Overview

²⁵ Nadab son of Jeroboam began to rule over Israel in the second year of King Asa's reign in Judah. He reigned in Israel two years. ²⁶ But he did what was evil in the Lord 's sight and followed the example of his father, continuing the sins that Jeroboam had led Israel to commit. ²⁷ Then Baasha son of Ahijah, from the tribe of Issachar, plotted against Nadab and assassinated him while he and the Israelite army were laying siege to the Philistine town of Gibbethon. ²⁸ Baasha killed Nadab in the third year of King Asa's reign in Judah, and he became the next king of Israel. ²⁹ He immediately slaughtered all the descendants of King Jeroboam, so that not one of the royal family was left, just as the Lord had promised concerning Jeroboam by the prophet Ahijah from Shiloh. ³⁰ This was done because Jeroboam had provoked the anger of the Lord , the God of Israel, by the sins he had committed and the sins he had led Israel to commit. ³¹ The rest of the events in Nadab's reign and everything he did are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Israel. ³² There was constant war between King Asa of Judah and King Baasha of Israel. ³³ Baasha son of Ahijah began to rule over all Israel in the third year of King Asa's reign in Judah. Baasha reigned in Tirzah twenty-four years. ³⁴ But he did what was evil in the Lord 's sight and followed the example of Jeroboam, continuing the sins that Jeroboam had led Israel to commit.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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there was war: That is, there was a constant spirit of hostility kept up between the two kingdoms, and no doubt frequent skirmishing between the bordering parties; but there was no open war till Baasha king of Israel began to build Ramah, which was, according to 2 Chronicles 15:19, 2 Chronicles 16:1, in the thirty-sixth year of Asa; but according to 1 Kings 16:8, 1 Kings 16:9, his son was killed by Zimri in the twenty-sixth year of Asa, and consequently he could not make war upon him in the thirty-sixth year of his reign. Chronologers endeavour to reconcile this, by saying that the years should be reckoned, not from the beginning of Asa's reign, but from the separation of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. We must either adopt this mode of solution, or admit that there is a mistake in some of the numbers, probably in the parallel places in Chronicles, but which we have no direct means of correcting. 1 Kings 15:16

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 3:1 - long war 2 Chronicles 16:9 - henceforth

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. For being a wicked man, and an idolater, Asa had no respect for him, though he had slain the family of Jeroboam; nor had Baasha any regard to Judah, nor to the worship of God at Jerusalem, so that there was no good understanding between them, but frequent acts of hostility, see 1 Kings 15:16.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

An exact repetition of 1 Kings 15:16. From the book before him 1 Kings 15:31 the writer extracts a passage which happens to correspond exactly with one which he has already extracted from the “Book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.” He does not object to repeating himself (compare 1 Kings 14:21, 1Ki 14:31; 1 Kings 14:30; 1 Kings 15:6; 2 Kings 17:6; 2 Kings 18:11).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 15:32. There was war — See on 1 Kings 15:16.