1 Kings 16:3-11
1599 Geneva Bible
3 Behold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the posterity of his house, and will make [a]thine house like the (A)house of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat.
4 (B)He that dieth of Baasha’s stock in the city, him shall the dogs eat: and that man of him which dieth in the fields, shall the fowls of the air eat.
5 And the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his [b]power, are they not written in the book of the (C)Chronicles of the kings of Israel?
6 So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah, and Elah his son reigned in his stead.
7 And also [c]by the hand of Jehu the son of Hanani the Prophet, came the word of the Lord to Baasha, and to his house, that he should be like the house of Jeroboam, even for all the wickedness that he did in the sight of the Lord, in provoking him with the work of his hands, and because he killed [d]him.
8 ¶ In the six and twenty years of Asa king of Judah, began Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, and reigned two years.
9 And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah [e]drinking, till he was drunken in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah.
10 And Zimri came and smote him, and killed him in the seven and twenty years of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead.
11 ¶ And when he was king, and sat on his throne, he slew all the house of Baasha, not leaving thereof one to piss against a wall, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends.
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- 1 Kings 16:3 Meaning, the house of Baasha.
- 1 Kings 16:5 Or, valiantness.
- 1 Kings 16:7 That is, the Prophet did his message.
- 1 Kings 16:7 Meaning, Nadab Jeroboam’s son.
- 1 Kings 16:9 The Chaldea text hath thus, Drinking till he was drunken in the Temple of Arza the idol by his house in Tirzah.
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