1 Kings 16
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Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hana'ni against Ba'asha,
saying,
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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 Jerobo'am, and hast made my people Israel to
sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;
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behold, I will take away the posterity of
Ba'asha, and the posterity of his house; and will make thy house
like the house of Jerobo'am the son of Nebat.
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Him that dieth of Ba'asha in the city
shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth of his in the fields shall
the fowls of the air eat.
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Now the rest of the acts of Ba'asha,
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 Ba'asha 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 Hana'ni came the word of the LORD against Ba'asha, 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
Jerobo'am; and because he killed him.
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The Reigns of Elah and
Zimri |
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In the twenty and sixth year of Asa
king of Judah began Elah the son of Ba'asha 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 Ba'asha: he left him not one that pisseth against a wall,
neither of his kinsfolk, nor of his friends.
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Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of
Ba'asha, according to the word of the LORD,
which he spake against Ba'asha by Jehu the prophet,
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for all the sins of Ba'asha, 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.
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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?
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In the twenty and seventh year of Asa
king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. And the people were encamped against Gib'bethon, 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 Gib'bethon, 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 LORD, in walking in
the way of Jerobo'am, 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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The Reign of
Omri |
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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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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.
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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.
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But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of
the LORD, and did worse than all that were before him.
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For he walked in all the way of Jerobo'am
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.
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Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he
did, and his might that he showed, are they not written in
the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?
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So Omri slept with his fathers, and was
buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.
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The Reign of
Ahab |
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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.
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And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the
sight of the LORD above all that were before him.
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And it came to pass, as if it had been a
light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jerobo'am the son of
Nebat, that he took to wife Jez'ebel the daughter of Ethba'al king
of the Zido'ni-ans, and went and served Ba'al, and worshipped
him.
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And he reared up an altar for Ba'al in
the house of Ba'al, which he had built in Samaria.
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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.
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In his days did Hi'el the Beth'-elite
build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abi'ram 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. Josh. 6.26
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