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1 Kings 15:32

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Kings 15:32 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 15:32 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/1-kings/15/32.

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There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
World English Bible · Public Domain
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And war was between Asa and between Baasha, the king of Israel, all of their days.

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
    There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel throughout their days.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel throughout their days.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And there was warre betweene Asa and Baasha King of Israel, all their dayes.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And there was war between Asa and Baasa the king of Israel all their days.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And war hath been between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And there has been war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel [for] all their days.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And war was between Asa and between Baasha, the king of Israel, all of their days.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Asa and Baasha, king of Israel, were always at war with each other.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And there was war between Asa and Baasha, king of Israel, all their days.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And there was war between Asa and Baasa king of Israel all their days.

Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).

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distinct lemmas
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Shared distinctive vocabulary

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

Grammatical profile

  • 1 verb
  • 7 nouns
  • 2 prepositions

Verb forms

  • הָיְתָ֜ה Qal · Perfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • בֵּ֣ין between H996 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 13 words from the Hebrew and 16 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

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.

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Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to 1 Kings 15:32 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • 1 Kings 15:16 There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 1 Kings 15:32 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּמִלְחָמָ֨ה הָיְתָ֜ה בֵּ֣ין אָסָ֗א וּבֵ֛ין בַּעְשָׁ֥א מֶֽלֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל כָּל יְמֵיהֶֽם

There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Kings 15:32 Septuagint · lemma form
And there was a war between Asa and Baasa king of Israel in all their days.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓

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)
    וּקְרָבָא הֲוַת בֵּין אָסָא וּבֵין בַּעְשָׁא מַלְכָּא דְיִשְׂרָאֵל כָּל יוֹמֵיהוֹן:

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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 15:32 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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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

1Ki_15:32 to 1Ki_16:7. Baasha king of Israel. God’s messages to him by the prophet Jehu (Not in Chronicles)

32. And there was war] The LXX. (Vat.) omits this verse entirely.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

1Ki 15:32 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

Ver. 32. And there was war.] See 1Ki 15:16.

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.

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

15:32-34 Baasha established his capital at Tirzah, the royal retreat of earlier kings (14:17).

Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 32. There was war] See on 1Kg 15:16.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

An exact repetition of 1Ki 15:16. From the book before him 1Ki 15:31 the writer extracts a passage which happens to correspond exactly with one which he has already extracted from the “Book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.” He does not object to repeating himself (compare 1Ki 14:21, 1Ki 14:31; 1Ki 14:30; 1Ki 15:6; 2Ki 17:6; 2Ki 18:11).

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

32. War between Asa and Baasha — See note on 1Ki_15:16.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. Verbatim as ver. 16, where see note. Several commentators suggest that this latter statement was copied from the chronicles of Israel, and that of ver. 16 from those of Judah. It is held by others, however, that for Baasha we should here read Nadab, and in favour of this view is the fact that the reign of Nadab is still under consideration, the history of Baasha only beginning with the following verse.

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

Lesson kit

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1 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 10 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. What does “Baasha” (Baʻshâʼ) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. 1 Kings 15:16 shares the word «Baasha» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. “between” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  4. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  5. The verb «הָיְתָ֜ה» is Qal Perfect. How does its form color the action?
  6. Reading how The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges and Trapp's Complete Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

  • These translations choose different wording for 1 word in this verse.
  • “between” occurs 2× in this single verse.
  • 9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 10 words in this verse.

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