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* Jehovah spoke to the prophet Jehu son of Hanani and gave him this message to give to Baasha : * »I lifted you out of the dust and made you ruler over my people Israel . You have gone the way of Jeroboam . You made my people Israel do evil , moving me to wrath by their sins . * »Truly , I will take away the family of Baasha . I will make your family like the family of Jeroboam , the son of Nebat . * »Dogs will eat anyone of the family of Baasha who dies in town . The birds of the air will eat anyone who dies in the open country .« * The rest of the acts of Baasha , what he did , and his power , are recorded in the book of the History of the Kings of Israel . * Baasha rested with his fathers . He was buried at Tirzah ; and Elah his son became king in his place . * The word of Jehovah came to the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani . This was a warning against Baasha and his family because of all the evil he did in the eyes of Jehovah . He made Jehovah angry by the work of his hands , because he was like the family of Jeroboam , and because he killed him . * In the twenty-sixth year that Asa was king of Judah , Elah , the son of Baasha , became king of Israel in Tirzah . He was king for two years . * His servant Zimri , commander of half his war-carriages made plans to kill him . He was in Tirzah , drinking hard at the house of Arza , controller of the king 's house in Tirzah . * Zimri attacked and killed him . It was the twenty-seventh year that Asa was king of Judah . * Immediately after he became king and took his place on the throne of the kingdom , he put to death all the family of Baasha . Not one male child survived . * So Zimri destroyed the entire family of Baasha as Jehovah promised through the prophet Jehu . * This happened because of the sins of Baasha , and the sins of Elah his son , and because of all the sins they led Israel to commit . It aroused the anger of Jehovah the God of Israel . * The rest of the acts of Elah are recorded in the book of the History of the Kings of Israel . * In the twenty-seventh year of Asa , king of Judah , Zimri was king for seven days in Tirzah . The people were attacking Gibbethon in the land of the Philistines . * The Israelites in the camp heard it said : »Zimri plotted against the king and killed him .« So all Israel made Omri , the captain of the army , king that day there in the camp . * Then Omri went up from Gibbethon , with all the army of Israel , and they attacked Tirzah , Israel ’s capital . * Zimri saw that the city had fallen . So he went into the palace 's inner fortress and set the palace on fire . He died in the flames . * This happened because of his sins against Jehovah . Like his predecessor Jeroboam , he displeased Jehovah by his own sins and by leading Israel into sin . * Everything else that Zimri did , including the account of his conspiracy , is recorded in The History of the Kings of Israel . * Then the army of Israel was divided into two factions . Half of the army followed Tibni , son of Ginath , and wanted to make him king . The other half followed Omri . * But the half that followed Omri was stronger than the half that followed Tibni , Ginath 's son . Tibni died and Omri became king . * Omri began to rule Israel in Asa 's thirty-first year as king of Judah . He ruled for twelve years , six of them in Tirzah . * Omri bought a hill from Shemer for one hundred and fifty pounds of silver . He fortified the hill and built the city of Samaria on it . He named the city after its former owner , Shemer . * Omri did what Jehovah considered evil . He did more evil things than all the kings before him . * He lived exactly like Jeroboam , Nebat 's son . He sinned and led Israel to sin with worthless idols . The Israelites made Jehovah the God of Israel furious . * Everything else about Omri is written in the official records of the kings of Israel . * Omri rested with his fathers , and was buried in Samaria . Ahab his son became king in his place . * In the thirty-eighth year that Asa was king of Judah , Ahab , the son of Omri , became king over Israel . Ahab was king in Samaria for twenty-two years . * Ahab , the son of Omri , did evil in the eyes of Jehovah , even worse than all who went before him ! * It was as if he copied the evil ways of Jeroboam , the son of Nebat . He took as his wife Jezebel , daughter of Ethbaal , king of Zidon , and became a servant and worshipper of Baal . * He built an altar for Baal in the house of Baal that he built in Samaria . * Ahab made an image of Asherah . He did more than all the kings of Israel before him to make Jehovah , the God of Israel , angry . * In his days Hiel rebuilt Jericho . He laid its foundation at the price of Abiram , his oldest son , and he put its doors in place at the price of his youngest son Segub . This was according to the word of Jehovah spoken through Joshua , the son of Nun .

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