King James Version
1 Kings 15:32 in the King James Version says “And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.” — study this verse from 1 Kings chapter 15 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.”
1 Kings 15:32 · KJV
Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.
Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
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“And there was war”
H4421a battle (i.e., the engagement); generally, war (i.e., war-fare)
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either...or
between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either...or
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“all their days”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
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