1Kings:16

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* Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani , against Baasha , saying : * "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 , * 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 . * 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 ." * 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 ? * So Baasha rested with his fathers and was buried in Tirzah . Then Elah his son reigned in his place . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * Thus Zimri destroyed all the household of Baasha , according to the word of the LORD , which He spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet , * 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 . * 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 had reigned in Tirzah seven days . And the people were encamped against Gibbethon , which belonged to the Philistines . * 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 . * Then Omri and all Israel with him went up from Gibbethon , and they besieged Tirzah . * 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 , * 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 . * 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 ? * 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 over 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 became king over Israel , and reigned twelve years . Six years he reigned in Tirzah . * 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 . * Omri did evil in the eyes of the LORD , and did worse than all who were before him . * 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 . * 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 ? * So Omri rested with his fathers and was buried in Samaria . Then Ahab his son reigned in his place . * 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 . * Now Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD , more than all who were before him . * 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 . * Then he set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal , which he had built in Samaria . * 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 . * 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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