SEV Biblia, Chapter 15:22
Entonces el rey Asa convocó a todo Judá, sin exceptuar ninguno; y quitaron de Ramá la piedra y la madera con que Baasa edificaba, y edificó el rey Asa con ello a Geba de Benjamín, y a Mizpa.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Kings 15:22
Verse 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."
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 22. Then King Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah , etc.] Summoned men of all sorts, ranks, and degrees: (none was exempted;) the Jews say, not so much as a newly married man, whom the law excused from war the first year, nor the disciples of the wise men: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded ; or fortified the place; these; the men of Judah, whom Asa summoned, carried off: and King Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah ; which were both in the tribe of Benjamin, and which he fortified, ( Joshua 18:24,26) ( Jeremiah 41:10).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 9-24 - Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord. That is right indee which is so in God's eyes. Asa's times were times of reformation. He removed that which was evil; there reformation begins, and a great dea he found to do. When Asa found idolatry in the court, he rooted it ou thence. Reformation must begin at home. Asa honours and respects his mother; he loves her well, but he loves God better. Those that have power are happy when thus they have hearts to use it well. We must no only cease to do evil, but learn to do well; not only cast away the idols of our iniquity, but dedicate ourselves and our all to God' honour and glory. Asa was cordially devoted to the service of God, his sins not arising from presumption. But his league with Benhadad aros from unbelief. Even true believers find it hard, in times of urgen danger, to trust in the Lord with all their heart. Unbelief makes wa for carnal policy, and thus for one sin after another. Unbelief ha often led Christians to call in the help of the Lord's enemies in their contests with their brethren; and some who once shone brightly, have thus been covered with a dark cloud towards the end of their days.
Original Hebrew
והמלך 4428 אסא 609 השׁמיע 8085 את 853 כל 3605 יהודה 3063 אין 369 נקי 5355 וישׂאו 5375 את 853 אבני 68 הרמה 7414 ואת 853 עציה 6086 אשׁר 834 בנה 1129 בעשׁא 1201 ויבן 1129 בם המלך 4428 אסא 609 את 853 גבע 1387 בנימן 1144 ואת 853 המצפה׃ 4709
