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* And the word of LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha , saying , * Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust , and made thee prince over my people Israel , and thou have walked in the way of Jeroboam , and have made my people Israel to sin , to provoke me to anger with their sins , acv @1Kings:16:3 @, behold , I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house , and I will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat . * He of Baasha who dies in the city shall the dogs eat , and he of his who dies in the field shall the birds of the heavens eat . * 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 ? * And Baasha slept with his fathers , and was buried in Tirzah , and Elah his son reigned in his stead . * And moreover the word of LORD came against Baasha by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani , and against his house , both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of LORD , to provoke him to anger with the work of his hands in be * In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah , Elah the son of Baasha began to reign over Israel in Tirzah , [and reigned ] two years . * And his servant Zimri , captain of half his chariots , conspired against him . Now he was in Tirzah , drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza , who was over the household in Tirzah . * And Zimri went in and smote him , and killed him in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah , and reigned in his stead . * And it came to pass , when he began to reign , as soon as he sat on his throne , that he smote all the house of Baasha . He left him not a single man-child , neither of his kinfolks , nor of his friends . * Thus Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha according to the word of LORD , which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet , * for all the sins of Baasha , and the sins of Elah his son , which they sinned , and with which they made Israel to sin , to provoke LORD , the God of Israel , to anger with their vanities . * 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 ? * In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah . Now the people were encamped against Gibbethon , which belonged to the Philistines . * And the people who were encamped heard say , Zimri has conspired , and has also smitten the king . Therefore all Israel made Omri , the captain of the army , king over Israel that day in the camp . * And Omri went up from Gibbethon , and all Israel with him , and they besieged Tirzah . * And it came to pass , when Zimri saw that the city was taken , that he went into the castle of the king 's house , and burnt the king 's house over him with fire , * and died for his sins which he sinned in doing that which was evil in the sight of LORD , in walking in the way of Jeroboam , and in his sin which he did to make Israel to sin . * 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 ? * 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 . * But the people who followed Omri prevailed against the people who followed Tibni the son of Ginath . So Tibni died , and Omri reigned . * In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah , Omri began to reign over Israel , [and reigned ] twelve years . He reigned six years in Tirzah . * And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver . And he built on the hill , and called the name of the city which he built after the name of Shemer , the owner of the hill , Samaria . * And Omri did that which was evil in the sight of LORD , and dealt wickedly above all who were before him . * For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat , and in his sins with which he made Israel to sin , to provoke LORD , the God of Israel , to anger with their vanities . * 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 ? * So Omri slept with his fathers , and was buried in Samaria , and Ahab his son reigned in his stead . * And in the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah , Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel . And Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years . * And Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in the sight of LORD above all who were before him . * 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 Sidonians , and went and served Baal , and worshipped him * And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal , which he had built in Samaria . * And Ahab made the Asherah . And Ahab did yet more to provoke LORD , the God of Israel , to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him . * In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho . He laid the foundation of it with the loss of Abiram his first-born , and set up the gates of it with the loss of his youngest son Segub , according to the word of LORD , which he spok

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