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1 Kings 15:9

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What does 1 Kings 15:9 say?

The American Standard Version records this verse as: “And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Asa to reign over Judah.” Read the surrounding verses and the named sources below before drawing broader conclusions.

The verse

And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Asa to reign over Judah.
1 Kings 15:9 — American Standard Version

Context — 1 Kings 15

American Standard Version (1901) — public domain. Click any verse for its study page.
6Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
7And the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
8And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
9And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Asa to reign over Judah.
10And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother`s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
11And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, as did David his father.
12And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
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What do historical commentaries say?

John Gill's Exposition
John Gill (1697–1771) · Exposition of the Old and New Testament · 18th-century historical commentary
“And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah.] How this is to be accounted for (see Gill on “<111502>1 Kings 15:2”).”
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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Tyndale Open Study Notes · Modern study notes
“15:9 Asa reigned from 910 to 869 BC.”
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Keil & Delitzsch
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch · Commentary on the Old Testament · 19th-century historical commentary
“Reign of Asa (cf., 2 Chron 14-16). - As Asa ascended the throne in the twentieth year of the reign of Jeroboam, his father Abijam, who began to reign in the eighteenth year of Jeroboam ( Kg1 15:1), can only have reigned two years and a few months, and not three full years. Kg1 15:10 Asa reigned forty-one years. "The name of his mother was Maacah, the daughter of Absalom." This notice, which agrees verbatim with Kg1 15:2, cannot mean that Abijam had his own mother for a wife; though Thenius finds this meaning in the passage, and then proceeds to build up conjectures concerning emendations of the text. We must rather explain it, as Ephr. Syr., the Rabbins, and others have done, as signifying…”
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