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1 Kings 15:22
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20 So Ben-Hadad heeded King Asa, and asent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel. He attacked bIjon, cDan, dAbel Beth Maachah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.  
21 Now it happened, when Baasha heard it, that he stopped building Ramah, and remained in aTirzah.  
22 aThen King Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted. And they took away the stones and timber of Ramah, which Baasha had used for building; and with them King Asa built bGeba of Benjamin, and cMizpah.  
23 The rest of all the acts of Asa, all his might, all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? But ain the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.  
24 So Asa rested with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the City of David his father. aThen bJehoshaphat his son reigned in his place.  
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Adam Clarke
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1 Kings 15:22

None was exempted - Every man was obliged to go and help to dismantle the fortress at Ramah which Baasha had built. This was a general levee en masse of the people: every one was obliged to lend a helping hand, as the state was then supposed to be in danger, and all exemptions necessarily ceased. This is a maxim of civil policy, Ubi adversus hostem muniendi sent limites, omnis immunitas cessat : "Where the boundaries are to be fortified against an enemy, then all exemptions cease.




Other Adam Clarke entries containing 1 Kings 15:22:

2 Chronicles 16:3
2 Chronicles 16:6
Jeremiah 41:9

 

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