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1 Kings 15:28

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Kings 15:28 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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1 Kings 15:28 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/1-kings/15/28.

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Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha kill him, and reigned in his place.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha kill him, and reigned in his place.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Baasha killed him in year three of Asa, the king of Judah. And he reigned in his place.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha kill him, and reigned in his place.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    In the third year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Baasha killed Nadab and reigned in his place.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    In the third year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Baasha killed Nadab and reigned in his place.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Euen in the third yeere of Asa King of Iudah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his steade.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    So Baasa slew him in the third year of Asa king of Juda, and reigned in his place.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    yea, Baasha putteth him to death in the third year of Asa king of Judah, and reigneth in his stead.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    indeed, Baasha puts him to death in the third year of Asa king of Judah, and reigns in his stead.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha killed Nadab and became king in his place.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Baasha killed him in year three of Asa, the king of Judah. And he reigned in his place.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And Baasha slew him in the third year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha killed him and reigned in his place.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Baasha killed Nadab and took over as king in the third year of the reign of King Asa of Judah.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    In the third year of the rule of Asa, king of Judah, Baasha put him to death, and became king in his place.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasa slay him, and reigned in his stead.

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Shared distinctive vocabulary

בַעְשָׁ֔א Baasha H1201 occurs in 26 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 2 verbs
  • 5 nouns
  • 1 adjective
  • 1 preposition

Verb forms

  • וַיְמִתֵ֣הוּ Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect
  • וַיִּמְלֹ֖ךְ Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 21 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

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Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 9 Hebrew tokens and 15 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

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Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to 1 Kings 15:28 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 32:35 Vengeance is mine, and recompense, At the time when their foot shall slide: For the day of their calamity is at hand, The things that are to come on them shall make haste.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 1 Kings 15:28 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיְמִתֵ֣הוּ בַעְשָׁ֔א בִּשְׁנַ֣ת שָׁלֹ֔שׁ לְאָסָ֖א מֶ֣לֶךְ יְהוּדָ֑ה וַיִּמְלֹ֖ךְ תַּחְתָּֽיו

Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha kill him, and reigned in his place.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Kings 15:28 Septuagint · lemma form

καί θανατόω αὐτός βαασα ἐν ἔτος τρίτος ὁ ασα υἱός αβιου βασιλεύς ιουδα καί βασιλεύω

And Baasa killed him in the third year of Asa son of Asa king of Juda; and reigned in his stead.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

  1. Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
    וְקַטְלֵיהּ בַּעְשָׁא בִּשְׁנַת תְּלַת לְאָסָא מַלְכָּא דְשִׁבְטָא דְבֵית יְהוּדָה וּמְלַךְ תְּחוֹתוֹהִי:

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    Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on 1 Kings 15:28 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

1Ki 15:28 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead.

Ver. 28. Did Baasha slay him.] Casting out his body to the dogs to be devoured, as Ahijah had forethreatened.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Joseph Benson's Commentary

1Ki 15:28. Even in the third year of Asa did Baasha slay him — It was threatened, (1Ki 14:15,) that Israel should be as a reed shaken in the water. And so they were, when, during the single reign of Asa, their government was in seven or eight different hands. Jeroboam was upon the throne at the beginning of his reign, and Ahab at the end of it; between whom were Nadab, Baasha, Elah, Zimri, Tibni, and Omri, undermining and destroying one another. This they got by deserting the house both of God and of David.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

In the third year of Asa: how this agrees with 2Ch 16:1, see in the notes there.

Did Baasha slay him; which he did, not to fulfil God’s threatening, but only to advance himself; and therefore this is called murder, 1Ki 16:7.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

Even in the third year of Asa We have here (as in 1Ki_16:8, 1Ki_16:23) a conspicuous instance of the Hebrew habit of counting parts of years as entire years. It is obvious that if Nadab succeeded to the throne in the second (ver. 25) and died in the third year of Asa, he cannot have reigned two full years king of Judah did Baasha slay him As the assassination took place during the siege, it is extremely probable that Baasha, like Omri, was the captain of the host, and reigned in his stead. Probably Nadab had showed himself quite unequal to the task of governing, of which reading the army was in that age a principal function. (1Sa_8:20) It is just possible that in the occupation of Gibbethon by Philistines we have a proof of his feebleness and incapacity. Anyhow, when the strong hand of Jeroboam is removed, the fruits of the rebellion at once begin to appear. The contempt and defiance which Jeroboam had showed towards constituted authority are now manifested towards his successor. Baasha only takes a leaf out of Jeroboam"s book. (1Ki_11:26)

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Even, &c. - It was threatened, chap. xiv, 15, that Israel should be as a reed shaken in the water. And so they were, when, during the single reign of Asa, their government was in seven or eight different hands. Jeroboam was upon the throne at the beginning of his reign, and Ahab at the end of it: between whom were Nadab, Baashah, Elah, Zimri, Tibni, and Omri, undermining and destroying one another. This they got by deserting the house both of God and of David.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

Lesson kit

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1 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 9 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Baʻshâʼ (“Baasha”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word Baʻshâʼ carries the sense “Baasha.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. How does 1 Kings 15:16, which shares the word «Baasha», read alongside this verse?
  3. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  4. «וַיְמִתֵ֣הוּ» is a Hiphil Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  5. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Joseph Benson's Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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