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Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee prince over my peopleIsrael; and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and hast made my peopleIsrael 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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And also by the hand of the prophetJehu 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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And his servantZimri,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 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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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 LORDGod of Israel to anger with their vanities.
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In the twentyandseventhyear of Asaking of Judah did Zimrireignsevendays in Tirzah. And the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.
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And the people that were encampedheardsay, 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 it came to pass, when Zimrisaw that the city was taken, that he went into the palace of the king'shouse, and burnt the king'shouse over him with fire, and died,
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For his sins which he sinned in doingevil 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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And he bought the hillSamaria 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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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 LORDGod 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 chroniclesof the kings of Israel?
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And in the thirtyandeighthyear of Asaking of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omrireigned over Israel in Samariatwenty and twoyears.
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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 wifeJezebel the daughter of Ethbaalking of the Zidonians, and went and servedBaal, and worshipped him.
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In his days did Hiel the BethelitebuildJericho: 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 spakebyJoshua the son of Nun.