1 Kings 15:16
New International Version
There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel throughout their reigns.

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

English Standard 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.

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

New King James Version
Now 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.

NASB 1995
Now there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

NASB 1977
Now there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now 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.

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

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

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And there was battle between Asa and the house of Baasha, King of Israel, all their days.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And there was war between Asa and Baasa king of Israel all their days.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
There was war between Asa and King Baasha of Israel as long as they lived.

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.

International Standard Version
A state of continual military unrest existed between Asa and King Baasha of Israel throughout their lifetimes.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And there was war between Asa and Baasa king of Israel all their days.

Literal Standard Version
And there has been war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel [for] all their days,

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

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

NET Bible
Now Asa and King Baasha of Israel were continually at war with each other.

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

New Heart English Bible
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.

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

Additional Translations ...
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Context
War Between Asa and Baasha
16Now there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel throughout their days. 17Baasha king of Israel went to war against Judah and fortified Ramah to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the territory of Asa king of Judah.…

Cross References
1 Kings 15:32
And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel throughout their days.

2 Chronicles 16:1
In the thirty-sixth year of Asa's reign, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and fortified Ramah to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the territory of Asa king of Judah.

2 Chronicles 16:3
"Let there be a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. See, I have sent you silver and gold. Now go and break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, so that he will withdraw from me."

2 Chronicles 16:5
When Baasha learned of this, he stopped fortifying Ramah and abandoned his work.


Treasury of Scripture

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

1 Kings 15:6,7,32
And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life…

1 Kings 14:30
And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.

2 Chronicles 16:1
In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah, and built Ramah, to the intent that he might let none go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

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1 Kings 15
1. Abijam's wicked reign
7. Asa succeeds him
9. Asa's good reign
16. The war between Baasha and him causes him to make a league with Ben-Hadad
23. Jehoshaphat succeeds Asa
25. Nadab's wicked reign
27. Baasha conspiring against him, executes Ahijah's prophecy
31. Nadab's acts and death
33. Baasha's wicked reign














(16) There was war . . .--According to 1Kings 15:33, Baasha reigned from the third to the twenty-seventh year of Asa. The phrase, here repeated from 1Kings 14:30, 1Kings 15:7, appears simply to mean that the old hostile relations remained, combined with, perhaps, some border war; for it is expressly said in 2Chronicles 14:1, that Asa's first ten years were peaceful, and the open war with Israel did not break out till after the victory over Zerah, in his fifteenth year.

Verse 16. - And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days [This statement must be compared with 2 Chronicles 14:1, 6, from which we gather that during the first ten years of Asa's reign there cannot have been war, properly so called, between them. Indeed, it would seem from 2 Chronicles 15:19; 2 Chronicles 16:1, that it was not until the 36th year of Asa's reign that it first broke out. But these numbers have clearly not escaped corruption (see note there), as at the date last mentioned Baasha must have been dead (cf. ver. 33 below). It is probable that war is to be taken here, as elsewhere (1 Kings 14:30), in the sense of hostility, and in any case we have here another instance of the hyperbolical habit of the Eastern mind.]

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Now there was
הָיְתָ֜ה (hā·yə·ṯāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

war
וּמִלְחָמָ֨ה (ū·mil·ḥā·māh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 4421: A battle, war

between
בֵּ֣ין (bên)
Preposition
Strong's 996: An interval, space between

Asa
אָסָ֗א (’ā·sā)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 609: Asa -- perhaps 'healer', an Israelite name

and Baasha
בַּעְשָׁ֥א (ba‘·šā)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1201: Baasha -- a king of Israel

king
מֶֽלֶךְ־ (me·leḵ-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4428: A king

of Israel
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

throughout
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

their days.
יְמֵיהֶֽם׃ (yə·mê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 3117: A day


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