There was no more war to the thirty-fifth year of Asa’s reign.
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There was no more war to the thirty-fifth year of Asa’s reign.
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And there was no more war unto the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.
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And there was no more war unto the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.
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Passages linked to 2 Chronicles 15:19 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Kings 15:16-17 There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
- 1 Kings 15:31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
- 1 Kings 15:33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha the son of Ahijah began to reign over all Israel in Tirzah for twenty-four years.
- 2 Chronicles 16:1 In the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ch 15:19 And there was no [more] war unto…
2Ch 15:19 And there was no [more] war unto the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.
Ver. 19. Unto the five and thirtieth year,] sc., From the revolt of the ten tribes. See 2Ch 16:8. The Septuagint corruptly here render, Unto the thirtieth year.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain For though there were continual skirmishes between Asa and…
For though there were continual skirmishes between Asa and Baasha and their people all their days, 1Ki 15:16, yet it did not break forth into an open war till Asa’s thirty-fifth year, i.e. till that was ended. But how this thirty-fifth year is to be computed, See Poole "2Ch 16:1".
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And there was no more war unto the thirty…
And there was no more war unto the thirty fifth year of the reign of Asa. That is, from the Ethiopian war to that time; after that there was no war with any foreign enemy; there were animosities and discords, bickerings and hostilities of some sort continually between Asa and Baasha king of Israel, as long as he lived, see Kg1 15:16.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 19. The five and thirtieth year of the…
Verse 19. The five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa] Archbishop Usher thinks that this should be counted from the separation of the kingdom, and that this fell on the fifteenth year of Asa's reign. To settle in every respect these chronologies is a most difficult undertaking; and the difficulty does not belong to the sacred books alone, all other chronological tables of all the nations in the world, are in the same predicament. With those of our own history I have often been puzzled, even while I had access to all the archives of the nation. Probably we should read here the five and twentieth year. See the margin, and 1Kg 15:16.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 2Ch 15:19. There was no more war unto the…
2Ch 15:19. There was no more war unto the five and thirtieth year of Asa — No open, general war, though there were constant bickerings between Judah and Israel upon the frontiers, 1Ki 15:16. National piety procures national blessings.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The five and thirtieth year of the reign of…
The five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa - This cannot be reconciled with the chronqlogy of Kings 1Ki 16:8 : and the suggestion in the marg. implies the adoption of a mode of marking time unknown either to himself or any other Scriptural writer. It is supposed that the figures here and in 2Ch 16:1 are corrupt, and that in both verses “twentieth” should replace “thirtieth.” The attack of Baasha would then have been made in the last year of Asa’s reign; and ten years of peace would have followed Asa’s victory over Zerah.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Year. Usher dates from the separation of the two…
Year. Usher dates from the separation of the two kingdoms; and this year corresponds with the 15th of Asa, ver. 10. See 3 Kings xv. 16. (Calmet) (Torniel, the year of the world 3094.)
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 19. No more war unto the five and thirtieth…
19. No more war unto the five and thirtieth year of… Asa — This date, and also that of the next verse, (2Ch_16:1,) is undoubtedly erroneous, for in the twenty-sixth year of Asa Baasha was dead, and his son Elah began to reign. 1Ki_16:8. We think, with Rawlinson, that the simplest emendation is to substitute twentieth for thirtieth in both verses. Then we may suppose that previous to the war with Zerah Asa had ten years of peace, (2Ch_14:1,) and after that war he had peace again until the last year of Baasha’s reign, when the latter undertook the war against Judah mentioned in 2Ch_16:1.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 19. there was no more war] This statement can…
19. there was no more war] This statement can be reconciled with 1Ki_15:16; 1Ki_15:32 only by interpreting it broadly to mean that nothing serious occurred until the war with Baasha had been going on for several years.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (19) And there was no more war unto the…
(19) And there was no more war unto the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.—Literally, and war arose not until, etc. This statement appears to refer back to 2Ch_15:15 : “And the Lord gave them rest round about;” and so to assign the limit of that period of peace, which ensued after the defeat of Zeran.
In 1Ki_15:16 we find a different statement: “And war continued between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days,” a statement which is repeated in 1Ki_15:32 of the same chapter.
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The chronicler has evidently modified the older text, in order to assign a precise date to the outbreak of active hostilities between the two monarchs. (Both 1Ki_15:16 and the present 2Ch_15:19 begin with the same two Hebrew words, meaning “and war was,” but the chronicler inserts a not).
The verse of Kings need not imply more than that no amicable relations were ever established between the two sovereigns. They had inherited a state of war, although neither was in a condition to make an open attack upon the other for some years.
The five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.—This limit does not agree with the data of Kings (seo on 2Ch_16:1). Thenius suggests that the letter l, denoting 30, got into the text originally, through some transcriber, who inadvertently wrote the l with which the next Hebrew word begins twice over. Later on, some other copyist naturally corrected 2Ch_16:1, to agree with this. Assuming thus that the right readings here were originally the fifth and sixth years of the reign of Asa, Thenius concludes that in 2Ch_16:1 the letter v (i.e., 6) has been shortened into y (10); and that Baasha’s attempt preceded the invasion of Zerah. The false dates probably existed already in the source which the chronicler followed.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain There was no more war. The Hebrew text should…
There was no more war. The Hebrew text should be adhered to, which simply says, there was not war unto, etc The five and thirtieth year. There can be little doubt that the text originally said "twentieth," not "thirtieth". (see also 2Ch_16:1) The parallel, after the identical words Of the previous verse already noted, goes on emphatically to speak of the fact that "there was war between Asa and Baasha all their days;" and the same statement is repeated in the thirty-second verse of the same chapter. (1Ki_15:16, 1Ki_15:32) The following verse (33) says that Baasha"s twenty-four-year reign began in Asa"s third year. Putting the various and apparently somewhat varying statements together, they must be held to say, first, that a state of war was, indeed, chronic between Asa and Baasha (which way of putting need not disturb the correctness of 2Ch_14:5, 2Ch_14:6, and of the fifteenth verse of our chapter) but that in the six and twentieth year of Asa, which would be the last or last but one of Baasha"s life, latent war gave place to active hostilities, and Baasha (2Ch_16:1) came up to Judah to invade it, and to build Ramah a course of conduct which was the beginning of the end for him. (comp. 1Ki_16:8; our ver. 10; and 2Ch_16:1, 2Ch_16:9)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 15:19 no more war: Literally no war. Most translations,…
15:19 no more war: Literally no war. Most translations, including the NLT, add “more” to assist in conveying the probable meaning. But if “no war” is in fact the better reading, the thirty-fifth year might refer to the thirty-fifth year since the division of the northern and southern kingdoms. That would have been around the time when Zerah the Ethiopian invaded Judah and was defeated by Asa (14:9-15). But see the study note on 16:1. • The Chronicler inserts chronological notes into his account to divide Asa’s reign into periods that show the consequences of his decisions (see 14:1; 15:10; 16:1, 12, 13). The early battles with the north were seen as inconsequential for that period, though the Chronicler was fully aware of them (see 15:8). The first years of Asa’s reign were characterized by divine favor to an obedient king.
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