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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 kinsfolks ,
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 shewed ,
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 .