am 3074, bc 930
Baasha: 1 Kings 15:27; 2 Chronicles 16:1-6
Ramah: By building Ramah is here meant fortifying it, in order to prevent all intercourse with the kingdom of Judah, lest his subjects should cleave to the house of David. For Ramah was a city of Benjamin, situated on the confines of both kingdoms, probably on a hill, as the name imports, commanding a narrow defile between the mountains, through which lay the principal road to Jerusalem; so that a fortification being erected here, no communication could be held between the people of Israel and Judah, without Baasha's permission. 1 Kings 15:21; Joshua 18:25; 1 Samuel 15:34; Jeremiah 31:15
he might not suffer: 1 Kings 12:27; 2 Chronicles 11:13-17