1 Kings 15:19

Translations

Modern

“Let there be a treaty between me and you as there was between my father and your father. See, I have sent you a gift of silver and gold. Now go and break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, so that he will withdraw from me.”

Traditional

There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.

Literal

…“a covenant be between me and between you, as there was between my father and between your father. Behold, I have sent to you a present of silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel, so that he will go up from me.”

Latin

Fœdus est inter me et te, et inter patrem meum et patrem tuum: ideo misi tibi munera, argentum et aurum: et peto ut venias, et irritum facias fœdus quod habes cum Baasa rege Israël, et recedat a me.

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English

“Let there be a treaty between me and you as there was between my father and your father. See, I have sent you a gift of silver and gold. Now go and break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, so that he will withdraw from me.”

Notes

1 Kings 15:18–19

Ben-hadad, the king of Aram, and his successors played a key role in Aramean-Israelite relations for many years. Asa asked Ben-hadad for help and offered valuable gifts from the temple treasury. Although the Arameans and Israel had been enemies before (1 Kings 11:23–25; 2 Samuel 8:3–12; 2 Chronicles 8:3–4), Ben-hadad and Baasha had formed a treaty. Asa knew he could buy the Aramean king's help for the right price (1 Kings 15:20). When God's prophet Hanani delivered the Lord's rebuke to Asa for seeking Ben-hadad's help, Asa reacted unusually and imprisoned him (2 Chronicles 16:7–10). Asa seemed to forget God's earlier help against Zerah's large army (2 Chronicles 14:7–8).

Theme notes and profiles

Arameans Asa

Events

Reign of Asa

Related verses

Romans 1:31
They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.
Ezekiel 17:13–16
He took a member of the royal family and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. Then he carried away the leading men of the land,
2 Chronicles 19:2
Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, the wrath of the LORD is upon you.
2 Chronicles 16:7
At that time Hanani the seer came to King Asa of Judah and told him, “Because you have relied on the king of Aram and not on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped from your hand.
2 Samuel 21:2
At this, David summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not Israelites, but a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had taken an oath concerning them, but in his zeal for Israel and Judah, Saul had sought to kill them.)
Isaiah 31:1
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.
2 Chronicles 16:3
“Let there be a treaty between me and you as there was between my father and your father. See, I have sent you silver and gold. Now go and break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, so that he will withdraw from me.”
Romans 3:8
Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, “Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved!

Parallels

2 Chronicles 16:1–6

People

Baasha: Third king of Israel who ruled for 24 years Israel: Patriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes

Glossary

Abel (Place) Alliance Baasha Ben-Hadad Kings, Books of First and Second Ramah Temple Tribe of Naphtali

Topics

Alliances: Asa and Benhadad Asa: King of Judah Baasha: King of Israel Ben-Hadad: King of Syria Bribery: Ben-Hadad Covenants: Designed For: Procuring Assistance in War Gold: Given As Presents Kings: Who Reigned Over Judah: Asa Prophecies Concerning Israel: Asa Makes a Treaty with Ben-Hadad, King of Syria, to Make War Against Israel Prophecies Concerning Israel: Asa's Good Reign Ramah: Called Rama: Attempted Fortification of, by King Baasha; Destruction of, by Asa Syria: Asa Sought Aid of, Against Israel Treaty: Between Nations: Judah and Syria

1 Kings 15:19

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