The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:6
The affair seems thus to have come to an unbloody termination. The parallel ( 1 Kings 15:22 )is so much the more graphic that it contains the two additions that Asa "made a proclamation throughout all Judah," and one that "exempted none" from joining in the duty of moving all the stones and all the timber from Ramah, and diverting' them to the use of building Geba and Mizpah. This greatly contributed to command the road from the north to Jerusalem. Geba . This was Geba of Benjamin, as... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:5
And let his work cease . The parallel has not this, but follows the exact previous sentence with this, "and dwelt in Tirzah." It is the happy suggestion of one commentator (Professor James G. Murphy, ' Handbook: Chronicles') that this sentence may betray that it had been Baasha's intention to reside in Ramah . read more