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Then the
word of the Lord came to Jehu the son of Hanani
against Baasha, saying,
02 Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust,
and made thee prince over my people Israel; and
thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and hast
made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to
anger with their sins;
03 Behold, I will take away the posterity of
Baasha, and the posterity of his house; and will
make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son
of Nebat.
04 Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the
dogs eat; and him that dieth of his in the fields
shall the fowls of the air eat.
05 Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what
he did, and his might, are they not written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel?
06 So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was
buried in Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in his
stead.
07 And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the
son of Hanani came the word of the Lord against
Baasha, and against his house, even for all the
evil that he did in the sight of the Lord, in
provoking him to anger with the work of his
hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and
because he killed him.
08 In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of
Judah began Elah the son of Baasha to reign over
Israel in Tirzah, two years.
09 And his servant Zimri, captain of half his
chariots, conspired against him, as he was in
Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of
Arza steward of his house in Tirzah.
10 And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed
him, in the twenty and seventh year of Asa king
of Judah, and reigned in his stead.
11 And it came to pass, when he began to reign,
as soon as he sat on his throne, that he slew all
the house of Baasha: he left him not one that
pisseth against a wall, neither of his kinsfolks,
nor of his friends.
12 Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of
Baasha, according to the word of the Lord, which
he spake against Baasha by Jehu the prophet.
13 For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of
Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which
they made Israel to sin, in provoking the Lord
God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
14 Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that
he did, are they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel?
15 In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of
Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. And
the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which
belonged to the Philistines.
16 And the people that were encamped heard say,
Zimri hath conspired, and hath also slain the
king: wherefore all Israel made Omri, the captain
of the host, king over Israel that day in the
camp.
17 And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all
Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.
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18 And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the
city was taken, that he went into the palace of
the king's house, and burnt the king's house over
him with fire, and died.
19 For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in
the sight of the Lord, in walking in the way of
Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make
Israel to sin.
20 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his
treason that he wrought, are they not written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel?
21 Then were the people of Israel divided into
two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the
son of Ginath, to make him king; and half
followed Omri.
22 But the people that followed Omri prevailed
against the people that followed Tibni the son of
Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri reigned.
23 In the thirty and first year of Asa king of
Judah began Omri to reign over Israel, twelve
years: six years reigned he in Tirzah.
24 And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for
two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and
called the name of the city which he built, after
the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria.
25 But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the Lord,
and did worse than all that were before him.
26 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the
son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made
Israel to sin, to provoke the Lord God of Israel
to anger with their vanities.
27 Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did,
and his might that he shewed, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel?
28 So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried
in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his
stead.
29 And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king
of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over
Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over
Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.
30 And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight
of the Lord above all that were before him.
31 And it came to pass, as if it had been a light
thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the
son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the
daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and
went and served Baal, and worshipped him.
32 And he reared up an altar for Baal in the
house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.
33 And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to
provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all
the kings of Israel that were before him.
34 In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build
Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram
his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in
his youngest son Segub, according to the word of
the Lord, which he spake by Joshua the son of
Nun.
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