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Soothly the residue of the words of Baasha, and whatever things he did, and his battles, whether these be not written in the book of [the] words of [the] days of the kings of Israel?

And so Baasha slept with his fathers, and he was buried in Tirzah; and Elah, his son, reigned for him.

Forsooth when the word of the Lord was made in the hand of Jehu, the son of Hanani, against Baasha, and against his house, and against all the evil which he did before the Lord, to stir him to ire in the works of his hands, that he should be as the house of Jeroboam, for this cause he killed him[a]. (And the word of the Lord was made to Jehu, the son of Hanani, against Baasha, and against his house, and against all the evil which he did before the Lord, to stir him to anger with the works of his hands, because he sinned like the house of Jeroboam, and also because he killed them.)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 16:7 The words that follow, ‘that is, Jehu, the prophet, the son of Hanani, (the prophet,)’ are not in Hebrew; it is a gloss.