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Chapter 16
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Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani
against Baasha, 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 Jeroboam, 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 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. |
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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 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. |
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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 kinsfolk, nor of his friends. |
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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. |
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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 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 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 LORD, 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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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 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. |
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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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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 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. |
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And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal,
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 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. |
