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Now the rest of Baasha’s accomplishments, including everything that he undertook, as well as his strengths, are recorded in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel, are they not? Eventually, Baasha died, as had his ancestors, and he was buried in Tirzah. His son Elah was installed as king in his place.

In addition, a message from the Lord came through Hanani’s son Jehu the prophet against Baasha and his household, not only because of all of the things that Baasha[a] did that the Lord considered to be evil, including provoking the Lord[b] to anger by what he did and by being like the household of Jeroboam, but also because Baasha[c] had destroyed Jeroboam’s household.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 16:7 Lit. he
  2. 1 Kings 16:7 Lit. him
  3. 1 Kings 16:7 Lit. he
  4. 1 Kings 16:7 Lit. destroyed it