So Asa withdrew the silver and gold from the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he sent it with this message to Ben-hadad king of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus:
How to reconcile the date of this event with the history of the kings I am quite at a loss. Baasha died in the twenty-sixth year of Asa, Kg1 16:8. How then could this be done in his thirty-sixth year, when Baasha's family was quite cut off, and Omri was upon the throne?
Commenting on 2 Chronicles 16:1-6
2Ch 16:1-5 War with Baasha, and the weakness of Asa’s faith. The end of his reign. - 2Ch 16:1-6. Baasha’s invasion of Judah, and Asa’s prayer for help to the king of Syria. The statement, “In the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha the king of Israel came up against Judah,” is inaccurate, or rather cannot possibly be correct; for, according to 1Ki...
Commenting on 2 Chronicles 16:1-5