¹The LORD ’s word came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha , saying ,

²“Because I exalted you out of the dust and made you prince over my people Israel , and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made my people Israel to sin , to provoke me to anger with their sins ,

³behold , I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house ; and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat .

⁴The dogs will eat Baasha ’s descendants who die in the city ; and he who dies of his in the field , the birds of the sky will eat.”

⁵Now the rest of the acts of Baasha , and what he did , and his might , aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel ?

⁶Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah ; and Elah his son reigned in his place .

⁷Moreover the LORD ’s word came by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha and against his house , both because of all the evil that he did in the LORD ’s sight , to provoke him to anger with the work of his hands , in being like the house of Jeroboam , and because he struck him .

⁸In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah , Elah the son of Baasha began to reign over Israel in Tirzah for two years .

⁹His 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 ;

¹⁰and Zimri went in and struck him and killed him in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah , and reigned in his place .

¹¹When he began to reign , as soon as he sat on his throne , he attacked all the house of Baasha . He didn’t leave him a single one who urinates on a wall amongst his relatives or his friends .[#16:11 or, male]

¹²Thus Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha , according to the LORD ’s word which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet ,

¹³for 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 the LORD , the God of Israel , to anger with their vanities .

¹⁴Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did , aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel ?

¹⁵In 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 .

¹⁶The people who were encamped heard that Zimri had conspired , and had also killed the king . Therefore all Israel made Omri , the captain of the army , king over Israel that day in the camp .

¹⁷Omri went up from Gibbethon , and all Israel with him , and they besieged Tirzah .

¹⁸When Zimri saw that the city was taken , he went into the fortified part of the king ’s house and burnt the king ’s house over him with fire, and died ,

¹⁹for his sins which he sinned in doing that which was evil in the LORD ’s sight , in walking in the way of Jeroboam , and in his sin which he did to make Israel to sin .

²⁰Now the rest of the acts of Zimri , and his treason that he committed , aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel ?

²¹Then 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 .

²²But the people who followed Omri prevailed against the people who followed Tibni the son of Ginath ; so Tibni died , and Omri reigned .

²³In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah , Omri began to reign over Israel for twelve years . He reigned six years in Tirzah .

²⁴He 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 , Samaria , after the name of Shemer , the owner of the hill .[#16:24 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds.]

²⁵Omri did that which was evil in the LORD ’s sight , and dealt wickedly above all who were before him .

²⁶For 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 the LORD , the God of Israel , to anger with their vanities .

²⁷Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did , and his might that he showed , aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel ?

²⁸So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria ; and Ahab his son reigned in his place .

²⁹In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah , Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel . Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years .

³⁰Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in the LORD ’s sight above all that were before him .

³¹As if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat , he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians , and went and served Baal and worshipped him .

³²He raised up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal , which he had built in Samaria .

³³Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did more yet to provoke the LORD , the God of Israel , to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him .

³⁴In his days Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho . He laid its foundation with the loss of Abiram his firstborn , and set up its gates with the loss of his youngest son Segub , according to the LORD ’s word , which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun .