1 Kings 15:17

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

King Baasha of Israel went up against Judah and built Ramah to prevent anyone from going out or coming in to King Asa of Judah.

Cross References

1 Kings 12:26

Then Jeroboam said to himself, “Now the kingdom may well revert to the house of David.

1 Kings 12:27

If this people continues to go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, the heart of this people will turn again to their master, King Rehoboam of Judah; they will kill me and return to King Rehoboam of Judah.”

1 Kings 15:27

Baasha 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 no more.

Jeremiah 41:9

Now the cistern into which Ishmael had thrown all the bodies of the men whom he had struck down alongside Gedaliah was the one that King Asa had made for defense against King Baasha of Israel; Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled that cistern with those whom he had killed.

Joshua 18:25

Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

1 Samuel 15:34

Then Samuel went to Ramah, and Saul went up to his house in Gibeah of Saul.