1 Kings
Chapter Sixteen
1 ¶ Then the word
of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani, against Baasha, saying:
2 "Inasmuch as I lifted you out of the dust and made you ruler over My
people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made My
people Israel sin, to provoke Me to anger with their sins,
3 "surely I will take away the posterity of Baasha and the posterity of
his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat.
4 "The dogs shall eat whoever belongs to Baasha and dies in the city, and
the birds of the air shall eat whoever dies in the fields."
5 Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, what he did, and his might, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
6 So Baasha rested with his fathers and was buried in Tirzah. Then Elah his
son reigned in his place.
7 And also the word of the LORD came by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani against
Baasha and his house, because of 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 them.
8 In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha became
king over Israel, and reigned two years in Tirzah.
9 Now his servant Zimri, commander 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 struck him and killed him in the twenty-seventh year
of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place.
11 Then it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he was seated on
his throne, that he killed all the household of Baasha; he did not leave him
one male, neither of his relatives nor of his friends.
12 Thus Zimri destroyed all the household of Baasha, according to the word of
the LORD, which He spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,
13 for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, by which they had
sinned and by which they had made Israel sin, in provoking the LORD God of Israel
to anger with their idols.
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-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri had reigned
in Tirzah seven days. And the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which
belonged to the Philistines.
16 Now the people who were encamped heard it said, "Zimri has conspired
and also has killed the king." So all Israel made Omri, the commander of
the army, king over Israel that day in the camp.
17 Then Omri and all Israel with him went up from Gibbethon, and they besieged
Tirzah.
18 And it happened, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into
the citadel of the king's house and burned the king's house down upon himself
with fire, and died,
19 because of the sins which he had committed in doing evil in the sight of
the LORD, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he had committed
to make Israel sin.
20 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and the treason he committed, are they
not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
21 Then the people of Israel were 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 who followed Omri prevailed over the people who followed Tibni
the son of Ginath. So Tibni died and Omri reigned.
23 In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri became king over Israel,
and reigned twelve years. Six years he reigned in Tirzah.
24 And he bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver;
then he built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, Samaria,
after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill.
25 Omri did evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse than all who were before
him.
26 For he walked in all the ways of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin
by which he had made Israel sin, provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with
their idols.
27 Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and the might that he showed,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
28 So Omri rested with his fathers and was buried in Samaria. Then Ahab his
son reigned in his place.
29 ¶ In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri
became king over Israel; and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria
twenty-two years.
30 Now Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD, more than all
who were before him.
31 And it came to pass, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk
in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as wife Jezebel the daughter
of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians; and he went and served Baal and worshiped
him.
32 Then he set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal, which he had built
in Samaria.
33 And Ahab made a wooden image. Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel
to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
34 In his days Hiel of Bethel built Jericho. He laid its foundation with Abiram
his firstborn, and with his youngest son Segub he set up its gates, according
to the word of the LORD, which He had spoken through Joshua the son of Nun.
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