Scofield Reference Bible Notes
1 Kings 15

1Ki 15:1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.

Abijam

Called Abijah, 2 Chronicles 13:1, etc.

1Ki 15:3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.

perfect [See also 1Ki 15:14.]

See Scofield 1Ki 8:61, ref.

1Ki 15:6 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.

war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam

See 2Ch 13:2-20.

1Ki 15:7 Now 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.

Now the rest of the acts of Abijam

2Ch 13:2, 3, 22.

1Ki 15:8 And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.

Abijam slept with his fathers

2Ch 14:1.

1Ki 15:11 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.

Asa did that which was right

2Ch 14:2.

1Ki 15:12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

he took away the sodomites

1Ki 14:24; 22:46.

1Ki 15:13 And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.

in a grove

See Deu 16:21.

1Ki 15:14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.

high places

Cf. 2Ch 14:3. It appears that local sacrifices to Jehovah (though not according to the divine order) were offered in the times of the kings upon "high places" (cf. 1Sa 9:12). Apparently Asa's mother had defiled one of these with an idol (1Ki 15:13). Asa destroyed the idol and the idolatrous (but not the Jehovistic) "high places." But see "high places," Scofield 1 Kings 3:2, note.

1Ki 15:17 And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

Baasha king of Israel

2Ch 16:1.

Ramah

Jos 18:25.

to go out or come in

1Ki 12:27.

1Ki 15:18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Benhadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,

dwelt at Damascus

1Ki 11:23, 24.

1Ki 15:20 So Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelbethmaachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

Ijon

2Ki 15:29.

Dan

Jdg 18:29.

Abelbethmaachah

2Sa 20:14.

1Ki 15:24 And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.

Jehoshaphat

Called Josaphat, Matthew 1:8.

reigned in his stead

2Ch 17:1.

1Ki 15:27 And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.

Gibbethon

Jos 19:44; 21:23; 1Ki 16:15.

1Ki 15:29 And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:

according unto the saying of the LORD

1Ki 14:10, 14.