twenty and four years. Began in the third year of Asa. Therefore he died in the twenty-sixth year of Asa (1Ki_16:8). Yet in the thirty-sixth year Baasha came and made war against Judah (2Ch_16:1). This would be nine or ten years after he was dead. But see note on 2Ch_16:1, where the word "reign" should be rendered "kingdom": i.e. the thirty-sixth year from the kingdom of Israel. See App-50.