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CHAPTER KINGS 16
Then the word of the L
ORD
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.
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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?
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So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and
Elah his son reigned in his stead.
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And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani
came the word of the L
ORD
against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil that he did
in the sight of the L
ORD
, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the
house of Jeroboam; and because he killed him.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the L
ORD
,
which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,
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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 L
ORD
God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
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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.
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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.
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And Omri
went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.
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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,
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For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the
sight of the L
ORD
, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel
to sin.
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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?
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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.
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But the people that followed Omri
prevailed against the people that followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri reigned.
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