* A.M. 3051-3074.  B.C. 953-930.  there was war.
   That is, there was a constant spirit of hostility kept up
   between the two kingdoms, and no doubt frequent skirmishing
   between the bordering parties; but there was no open war till
   Baasha king of Israel began to build Ramah, which was,
   according to 2; Ch 15:19; 16:1, in the thirty-sixth year of
   Asa; but according to ch. 16:8, 9, his son was killed by Zimri
   in the twenty-sixth year of Asa, and consequently he could not
   make war upon him in the thirty-sixth year of his reign.
   Chronologers endeavour to reconcile this, by saying that the
   years should be reckoned, not from the beginning of Asa's
   reign, but from the separation of the kingdoms of Israel and
   Judah.  We must either adopt this mode of solution, or admit
   that there is a mistake in some of the numbers, probably in
   the parallel places in Chronicles, but which we have no direct
   means of correcting.

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