Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha was building; and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah.

They carried

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They carried

1 Kings 15:22
King Asa ordered all the men of Judah (no exemptions were granted) to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah. King Asa used the materials to build up Geba (in Benjamin) and Mizpah.

Geba

Joshua 18:24
Kephar Ammoni, Ophni, and Geba -- a total of twelve cities and their towns.
1 Chronicles 6:60
Within the territory of the tribe of Benjamin they were allotted Geba and its pasturelands, Alemeth and its pasturelands, and Anathoth and its pasturelands. Their clans were allotted thirteen cities in all.
Isaiah 10:29
They went through the pass, spent the night at Geba. Ramah trembled, Gibeah of Saul ran away.
Zechariah 14:10
All the land will change and become like the Arabah from Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem; and Jerusalem will be raised up and will stay in its own place from the Benjamin Gate to the site of the First Gate and on to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses.

General references

1 Kings 15:16
Now Asa and King Baasha of Israel were continually at war with each other.

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