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In the sixth and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa
Baasha, King of Israel came up against Judah...
The contradiction between the texts is more than clear. One
of the two texts must be wrong because according to the first
text Baasha died' in the twenty-sixth year of Asa's reign so that
in the thirty-sixth year of Asa's reign he has been dead for ten
years. Obviously Baasha cannot invade Judah ten years after
his death.
The compilers of Henry and Scott, commenting on the text
of Chronicles have said, "Asher, a great Christian scholar, has
said, "This twenty-sixth year is not the year of Asa's reign, but
In the sixth and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa
Baasha, King of Israel came up against Judah...
The contradiction between the texts is more than clear. One
of the two texts must be wrong because according to the first
text Baasha died' in the twenty-sixth year of Asa's reign so that
in the thirty-sixth year of Asa's reign he has been dead for ten
years. Obviously Baasha cannot invade Judah ten years after
his death.
The compilers of Henry and Scott, commenting on the text
of Chronicles have said, "Asher, a great Christian scholar, has
said, "This twenty-sixth year is not the year of Asa's reign, but