27And 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.
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And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with her suburbs, Gibbethon with her suburbs,
And Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath,
Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.
In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. And the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.
And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25-34)We are now to take a view of the miserable state of Israel, while the kingdom of Judah was happy under Asa’s good government. It was threatened that they should be as a reed shaken in the water (1 Kgs. 14:15), and so they were, when, during the single reign of Asa, the government of their kingdom was in six or seven different hands, as we find in this and the following chapter. Jeroboam was upon t…
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