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1 Then the word of the LORD
came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
2 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;
3 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.
4 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.
5 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?
6 So Baasha slept with his fathers, and
was buried in Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in his stead.
7 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.
8 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.
9 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.
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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