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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comKeil and Delitzsch Commentary - 1 Kings 16:8 - 16:8
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The Reign of Elah. - As Baasha reigned from the third to the twenty-sixth year of Asa, i.e., not quite twenty-four years, but only twenty-three years and a few months, so his son Elah reigned from the twenty-sixth to the twenty-seventh year of Asa, i.e., not quite two years.
1Ki 16:9-11
Zimri, the commander of the half of his war-chariots, conspired against him, and not only slew him, when he was intoxicated (שִׁכֹּור שֹׁתֶה) at a drinking bout in the house of Arza, the prefect of his palace, but after ascending the throne exterminated the whole family of Baasha to the very last man. The prefect of the palace was no doubt a party to the conspiracy, and had probably arranged the drinking bout in his house for the purpose of carrying it out. “He did not leave him בְּקִיר מַשְׁתִּין (see at 1Ki 14:10), either his avengers (גֹּאֲלָיו, blood-relations, who might have avenged his death) or his friends.” These words simply serve to explain בְּקִיר מַשְׁתִּין, and show that this phrase is to be understood as relating to males only.
1Ki 16:12-14
“According to the word of the Lord;” see at 1Ki 16:1. כָּל־חַטּאֹות אֶל, with regard to all, i.e., on account of all the sins (compare 1Ki 16:7, where עַל is used). בְּהַבְלֵיהֶם, through their nothingnesses, i.e., their idols, by which the golden calves are meant.