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1 Kgs 15:17

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A.M. 3074. B.C. 930. Baasha.

1Kgs 15:27; 2Chr 16:1-6

Ramah.

By building Ramah is here meant fortifying it, in order to prevent all intercourse with the kingdom of Judah, lest his subjects should cleave to the house of David: for Ramah was a city of Benjamin, situated on the confines of both kingdoms, probably on a hill, as the name imports, commanding a narrow defile between the mountains, through which lay the principal road to Jerusalem; so that a fortification being erected here, no communication could be held between the people of Israel and Judah, without Baasha's permission.

1Kgs 15:21; Josh 18:25; 1Sam 15:34; Jer 31:15

he might not suffer.

1Kgs 12:27; 2Chr 11:13-17