_BEN-HADAD, KING OF SYRIA, AT THE INSTIGATION OF ASA, MAKES WAR UPON BAASHA. HANANI IS PUT INTO PRISON. ASA DIES IN THE FORTY-FIRST YEAR OF HIS REIGN, HAVING CONFIDED IN THE PHYSICIANS, NOT IN GOD._ _Before Christ 940._... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE SIX-AND-THIRTIETH YEAR OF THE REIGN— _In the twenty-sixth year;_ Houbigant: for Baasha died in the twenty-sixth year of Asa.... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE IS A LEAGUE BETWEEN ME AND THEE— _Let there be a league, I pray thee, between me and thee._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HE WAS IN A RAGE WITH HIM, &C.— _Though this thing displeased his people, and at that time Asa slew some of the people._ Houbigant. REFLECTIONS.—1st, The event here recorded we had 1 Kings 15. The six-and-thirtieth year of Asa is reckoned from the division of the kingdoms, which is no more than... [ Continue Reading ]