1 Kings 15:17 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁷ Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might permit no one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and built up Ramah, that he might allow no one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Israel’s King Baasha attacked Judah and fortified Ramah to prevent Judah’s King Asa from moving into that area.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ And Baasha, the king of Israel, ascended against Judah. And he built up Ramah, so that no one would be able to exit or enter from the side of Asa, the king of Judah.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ And Baasa king of Israel went up against Juda, and built Rama, that no man might go out or come in, of the side of Asa king of Juda.

1 Kings 15:17 Cross References

1 Kings 12:26

And Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will turn back to the house of David;

1 Kings 12:27

if this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn again to their lord, to Rehoboam king of Judah, and they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”

1 Kings 15:27

Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon.

Jeremiah 31:15

Thus says the Lord: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are not.”

Jeremiah 41:9

Now the cistern into which Ishmael cast all the bodies of the men whom he had slain was the large cistern which King Asa had made for defense against Baasha king of Israel; Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.

Joshua 18:25

Gibeon, Ramah, Be-eroth,

1 Samuel 15:34

Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house in Gibe-ah of Saul.