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Keil & Delitzsch on 1 Kings 15:25
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Commentary on the Old Testament
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch · 19th-century historical commentary
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The Reign of Nadab lasted not quite two years, as he ascended the throne in the second year of Asa, and was slain in his third year. Kg1 15:26-31 He walked in the ways of his father (Jeroboam) and in his sin, i.e., in the calf-worship introduced by Jeroboam ( Kg1 12:28). When Nadab in the second year of his reign besieged Gibbethon, which the Philistines and occupied, Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house, I the family or tribe, of Issachar, conspired against him and slew him, and after he became king exterminated the whole house of Jeroboam, without leaving a single soul, whereby the prediction of the prophet Ahijah ( Kg1 14:10.) was fulfilled. Gibbethon, which was allotted to the Danites ( Jos 19:44), has not yet been discovered. It probably stood close to the Philistian border, and was taken by the Philistines, from whom the Israelites attempted to wrest it by siege under both Nadab and Baasha ( Kg1 16:16), though apparently without success. לא השׁאיר כּל־נשׁמה as in Jos 11:14 (see the Comm. on Deu 20:16). Kg1 15:32 Kg1 15:32 is simply a repetition of Kg1 15:16; and the remark concerning Baasha's attitude towards Asa of Judah immediately after his entrance upon the government precedes the account of his reign, for the purpose of indicating at the very outset, that the overthrow of the dynasty of Jeroboam and the rise of a new dynasty did not alter the hostile relation between the kingdom of Israel and the kingdom of Judah. 3 Kings (1 Kings) 15:33
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