1 Kings 16:1-10 ▼

1 And the word of YHWH came to Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,

2 “Because that I raised you up out of the dust and made you ruler over My people Israel—and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have caused My people Israel to 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 son of Nebat.

4 Whoever dies of Baasha in the city the dogs shall eat, and whoever dies of him in the fields the birds of the heavens shall eat.”

5 And the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Words of the Days of the Kings of Israel?

6 And Baasha rested with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah. And Elah his son reigned in his place.

7 And also by the hand of Jehu son of Hanani the prophet the word of YHWH came against Baasha and his house, and concerning all the evil that he did in the eyes of YHWH in provoking Him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and upon that he had struck him down.

8 In the twentieth year and sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah son of Baasha became king over Israel in Tirzah, two years.

9 And his servant Zimri conspired against him (commander of half of the chariots) and he was in Tirzah drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the 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 he reigned in his place.