2 Chronicles 16:1

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:1-6

How to reconcile the date of this event with the history of the kings I am quite at a loss. Baasha died in the twenty-sixth year of Asa, 1 Kgs. 16:8. How then could this be done in his thirty-sixth year, when Baasha's family was quite cut off, and Omri was upon the throne? It is generally said to be meant of the thirty-sixth year of the kingdom of Asa, namely, that of Judah, beginning from the first of Rehoboam, and so it coincides with the sixteenth of Asa's reign; but then (2 Chron. 15:19... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:1-6

In the thirty and sixth year of the reign of Asa Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah ,.... How this is to be reconciled with the reign of Baasha, which was but twenty four years, and was begun in the third of Asa, and therefore must have been dead nearly ten years before this year of Asa's reign; see Gill on 1 Kings 15:17 where, and in the following verses, are the same things related as here, to the end of the sixth verse; the explanation of which the reader is referred to. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 16:1

The six and thirtieth year - After the division of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah; according to Usher. This opinion is followed in our margin; see the note on 1 Kings 15:16 , where this subject is farther considered. Concerning Baasha's building of Ramah, see the note on 1 Kings 15:17 . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:1

For the six and thirtieth year, read six and twentieth. Ramah belonged to Benjamin ( Joshua 18:21 , Joshua 18:25 , Joshua 18:28 ), and lay between Bethel and Jerusalem, about five or six Roman miles from each; but Keil and Bertheau, by some error, call it thirty miles from Jerusalem, having very likely in their eye Ramah of Samuel, in Ephraim. The word signifies "lofty," and the present history speaks the importance of its position, and would infer also that Israel had regained... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:1-6

Preferable things. This cannot be counted among the estimable acts of Asa; we could wish that he had adopted other means for repelling the attack of Baasha—means more worthy of himself as a servant of Jehovah. The abstraction of the gold and silver from the treasury of the house of the Lord may speak to us of the preferableness of— I. ACQUISITION THAT WE CANNOT LOSE . The custodians of the temple no doubt rejoiced when Asa "brought into the house of God the things that his... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:1-6

A king's (Asa's) mistake. I. WHEN IT HAPPENED . "In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa" ( 2 Chronicles 16:1 ). 1 . An obvious error. Baasha ascended the throne of Israel in Asa's third year ( 1 Kings 15:33 ), and died in his twenty-sixth ( 1 Kings 16:8 ). Yet it follows not that this blunder was in the original text. Most likely it crept in through transcription. The existence of such mistakes is not fatal to the claim of Scripture to be regarded as inspired. ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:1-14

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:1-14

The disappointing relapse of what had seemed tried worth, knowledge, and proved goodness. Mournful to the last degree is the impression made on us by what we are given to learn last of the career of King Asa. It is a reversal—not the reversal from bad to good, but of what seemed good and seemed sure, to bad. The humiliating lesson and fresh illustration of human caprice and weakness must be in like spirit and with proportionate humility noted and learned by ourselves. It is, indeed, a... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 16:1

This passage runs parallel with Kings (see the marginal reference). read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 16:1

2 Chronicles 16:1. In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa This date disagrees so much with what is said 1 Kings 15:33, that there seems to be no other way of reconciling the two passages, but allowing that a trivial mistake has been made by the transcribers here, and that instead of the thirty-sixth, we ought to read here the twenty-sixth. This reading is approved by Houbigant, and is evidently adopted by Josephus, lib. 8, cap. 6. Baasha began his reign in the third year of... read more

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