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¹ Then the word of the Lord came to Iehu the sonne of Hanani against Baasha, saying,

² Thus spoke Jehu to Baasha in the Name of the Lord.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;

³ Behold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the posterity of his house; and will makeMeaning, the house of Baasha.thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

⁴ He that dyeth of Baashas stocke in the citie, him shal the dogs eate: and that man of him which dyeth in the fieldes, shall the foules of the ayre eate.

⁵ And the rest of the actes of Baasha & what he did, & his power, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?

⁶ So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buryed in Tirzah, and Elah his sonne reigned in his steade.

⁷ And alsoThat is, the prophet did his message.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 killedMeaning, Nadab Jeroboam's son.him.

⁸ In the sixe and twentie yeere of Asa king of Iudah began Elah ye sonne of Baasha to reigne ouer Israel in Tirzah, and reigned two yeere.

⁹ And his servant Zimri, captain of half [his] chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah,The Chaldee text has this, «Drinking till he was drunk in the temple of Arza the idol by his house in Tirzah».drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of [his] house in Tirzah.

¹⁰ And Zimri came and smote him & killed him, in the seuen and twentie yeere of Asa king of Iudah, and reigned in his stead.

¹¹ And when he was King, and sate on his throne, he slew al the house of Baasha, not leauing thereof one to pisse against a wall, neither of his kinsfolkes nor of his friendes.

¹² Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu theBoth Hanani his father and he were prophets.prophet,

¹³ For all the sinnes of Baasha, and sinnes of Elah his sonne, which they sinned & made Israel to sinne, and prouoked the Lorde God of Israel with their vanities.

¹⁴ And the rest of the actes of Elah, & all that he did, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

¹⁵ In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. And the people [were] encampedThe siege had continued from the time of Nadab Jeroboam's son.against Gibbethon, which [belonged] to the Philistines.

¹⁶ And the people of the hoste heard saye, Zimri hath conspired, and hath also slayne the King. Wherefore all Israel made Omri the captaine of the hoste, king ouer Israel that same day, euen in the hoste.

¹⁷ And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besiegedWhere Zimri holed up.Tirzah.

¹⁸ And when Zimri saw, that the citie was taken, he went into the palace of the Kings house, and burnt himselfe, and the Kings house with fire, and so dyed,

¹⁹ For his sinnes which hee sinned, in doing that which is euil in the sight of the Lord, in walking in the way of Ieroboam, and in his sinnes which he did, causing Israel to sinne.

²⁰ And the rest of the actes of Zimri, and his treason that hee wrought, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kinges of Israel?

²¹ Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts:That is, the people who were not at the siege of Gibbethon: for there they had chosen Omri.half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri.

²² But the people that folowed Omri, preuayled against the people that followed Tibni the sonne of Ginath: so Tibni dyed, & Omri reigned.

²³ In the one and thirtie yeere of Asa King of Iudah bega Omri to reigne ouer Israel, & reigned twelue yeere. Sixe yeere reigned he in Tirzah.

²⁴ And he bought the mountaine Samaria of one Shemer for two talents of siluer, & buylt in the mountaine, & called the name of the citie, which he buylt, after the name of Shemer lord of the mountaine, Samaria.

²⁵ But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and didFor such is the nature of idolatry, that the superstition of it daily increases, and the older it is, the more abominable it is before God and his Church.worse than all that [were] before him.

²⁶ For he walked in all the way of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, & in his sinnes wherewith he made Israel to sinne in prouoking the Lord God of Israel with their vanities.

²⁷ And the rest of the actes of Omri, that hee did, and his strength that he shewed, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

²⁸ So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried inHe was the first king that was buried in Samaria, after that the kings house was burnt in Tirzah.Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.

²⁹ Nowe Ahab the sonne of Omri began to reigne ouer Israel, in the eyght & thirtie yeere of Asa king of Iudah: and Ahab the sonne of Omri reigned ouer Israel in Samaria two & twety yere.

³⁰ And Ahab the sonne of Omri did worse in ye sight of the Lord then al that were before him.

³¹ 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 tookBy whose influence he fell into wicked and strange idolatry and cruel persecution.to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.

³² Also he reared vp an altar to Baal in the house of Baal, which he had buylt in Samaria.

³³ And Ahab made a groue, & Ahab proceeded, & did prouoke the Lord God of Israel more then all the kings of Israel that were before him.

³⁴ In his days did Hiel the Bethelite buildSee (Jos_6:26).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.