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six and thirty] It is clear that this well may, and needs must, be understood likewise of that Kingdome wherein Asa was now King. For Baasha began to reigne in the third year of Asa, 1 King. XV. 28. And reigning twenty four years, ver. 33. he must needs die in the twenty seventh of Asa, or twenty six complete: And so we finde it, 1 King. XVI. 8 And therefore this thirty sixth wherein Baasha waged warre with Asa, must needs be meant of the Kingdome of Judah, that is, since the first division of the two Kingdomes. And so reckoning the seventeen years of Rehoboams reigne, and three of Abijah, we finde this thirty sixth to be the sixteenth of Asa, the next year after that full Reformation mentioned, 2 Chron.
XV. 10. And to be the thirteenth year of the reigne of Baasha. See a like passage, 2 Chron. XXII. 2.
Ramah] Ramah of Benjamin, bordering upon Judah, Josh. XVIII. 25. See the Annotations on Hos. V. 8.
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Hanani] The father of the Prophet Jehu, chap. XIX. 2. 1 King. XVI. 1.
of Syria escaped] Which God might, and would, otherwise have delivered into his hand; as he did the Ethiopians, if Asa had not prevented the occasion and opportunity thereof by his foolish sending to and for Benhadad to aide him, and break his League with Baasha; and so shewing thereby that he relied not upon the Lord, but upon Benhadad; for which he is justly reproved, and punished.
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a very great burning] Greeks and Romanes of old used to burne their dead bodies; specially of their Great ones, with a great deale of cost, burning huge piles, and curious fabricks of timber, together with abundance of odoriferous spices, at their Funerals; gathering their ashes into an Urne; and so layed up in their Monuments. And among the Jewes we read something like, viz. of Burning at the Exequies of their Kings; so here, and Jer. XXXIV. 5. of such of them at least, as lived beloved, and died desired: which was to others denied, 2 Chron. XXI. 19. Jer. XXII. 19. and XXXVI. 30. But we read not That this Burning was of their Bodies, but of sweet Odours only at and in their Sepulchers.