## Rashi on I Kings Chapter 15

###### Rashi on I Kings 15:1:1
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**וּבִשְׁנַת שְׁמוֹנֶה עֶשְׂרֵה לַמֶּלֶךְ יָרָבְעָם.** שָׁנָה אַחַת אַחַר מוֹת רְחַבְעָם, וּבִשְׁנַת עֶשְׂרִים לְיָרָבְעָם מָלַךְ אָסָא, שָׁנָה הַשְּׁלִישִׁית שֶׁל נָדָב (אֲבִיָּם) נִמְנֵית לַמֶּלֶךְ אָסָא שָׁנָה, וְלוֹ נַמֵּי נִמְנֵית.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**In the eighteenth year [of the reign] of King Yerovom.** One year after Rechovom’s death, in the twentieth year of Yerovom, Asa reigned. The third year of Nodov (Aviyam) is counted for King Asa as a year, and for him it is also counted.


###### Rashi on I Kings 15:12:1
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**וַיַּעֲבֵר הַקְּדֵשִׁים.** תִּרְגֵּם יוֹנָתָן: וּפַלֵּי נָפְקַת בְּרָא.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And he rid [the land] of prostitutes.** [Targum] Yonoson rendered, “and he abolished the prostitutes.”


###### Rashi on I Kings 15:13:1
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**וַיְסִרֶה מִגְּבִירָה.** מִהְיוֹת גְּבִירָה.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**He removed from her position of authority.** From being queen.


###### Rashi on I Kings 15:13:2
[Rashi on I Kings 15:13:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/15:13:2)

**אֲשֶׁר עָשְׂתָה מִפְלֶצֶת.** אָמְרוּ רַבּוֹתֵינוּ מַפְלִיא לֵיצָנוּתָא, כְּמִין זַכְרוּת עָשְׂתָה לָּהּ, וְהִיא הָיְתָה נִבְעֶלֶת לוֹ בְּכָל יוֹם.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**For she had made a fearful image.** Our Rabbis stated [that מפלצת is a combination of] מפליא ליצונתא [=extreme lasciviousness]. She made for it a phallic symbol,¹ and she would copulate with it every day.²

footnotes:
¹ Alternatively, an image that casts fear and dread unto its worshipers.—Radak
² Maseches Avodah Zarah 44a.


###### Rashi on I Kings 15:14:1
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**וְהַבָּמוֹת לֹא סָרוּ.** בָּמוֹת הַיָּחִיד, שֶׁהֻרְגְּלוּ לִקָּרֵב עֲלֵיהֶן לַשָּׁמַיִם מִשֶּׁחָרְבָה שִׁילֹה עַד שֶׁנִּבְנָה הַבַּיִת שֶׁהָיוּ הַבָּמוֹת מֻתָּרוֹת, לֹא סָרוּ עַתָּה, וְאַף עַל פִּי שֶׁנֶּאֶסְרוּ מִשֶּׁנִּבְנָה הַבַּיִת, וְהָיוּ עֲנוּשִׁים עָלֶיהָ כָּרֵת.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**[However] the [private] altars he did not remove.** The private altars upon which they had become accustomed to sacrifice to Heaven since Shiloh had been destroyed until the Beis [Hamikdosh] was built, when private altars were permissible, were not removed now, even though they were forbidden once the Beis [Hamikdosh] was built, and they were punished by premature death because of it.


###### Rashi on I Kings 15:22:1
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**אֵין נָקִי.** אֲפִלּוּ חָתָן מֵחֶדְרוֹ, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר בּוֹ: נָקִי יִהְיֶה לְבֵיתוֹ שָׁנָה אֶחָת.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**There will be no exceptions.** Even a bridegroom from his chamber,³ concerning whom it is stated, “he shall be free for his home one year.”⁴

footnotes:
³ Not even Torah scholars were exempt and Asa was punished for this. See Maseches Sotah 10a.
⁴ Devarim 24:5.


###### Rashi on I Kings 15:25:1
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**שְׁנָתַיִם.** הַשְּׁנִיָּה וְהַשְּׁלִישִׁית לְאָסָא.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Two years.** The second and the third [year] of Asa.


###### Rashi on I Kings 15:33:1
[Rashi on I Kings 15:33:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/15:33:1)

**בִּשְׁנַת שָׁלשׁ לְאָסָא מֶלֶךְ יְהוּדָה מָלַךְ בַּעְשָׁא.** שָׁנָה הַשְּׁלִישִׁית לְאָסָא, נִמְנֵית לְנָדָב וּלְבַּעְשָׁא.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**It was during the third year of Asa king of Yeudah, Bashah son of Achiyoh became king.** The third year of Asa is counted for Nodov and Bashah.⁵

footnotes:
⁵ The in year in which Basha killed Nodov was during the third year of Asa’s [above v. 28] reign, and it is counted for both kings.