The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 15:19
There is a league [Rawlinson would render, "Let there be a league… as there was," but the A.V. is equally good. Asa claims that a league does exist, and, in fact, has never been broken] between me and thee, and between my father and thy father [Syria would seem to have been the first of the possessions of Solomon to regain its independence ( 1 Kings 11:24 ). Its friendship would naturally be sought by Judah, as a counterpoise, perhaps, to the alliance between Israel and Egypt (Ewald)]:... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Kings 15:18
Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left [ LXX . τὸ σὑρεθὲν , which Rawlinson thinks points to a corruption of our text. He says, "The Jewish treasuries should now have been tolerably full," because read more