1 Kings 16:2-12

2 "Inasmuch * as I ¹exalted you from the dust and made you leader over My people Israel, and ²you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made My people Israel sin, provoking Me to anger with their sins,

3 behold, ³I will consume ⁴Baasha and his house, and ⁵I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

4 "⁶Anyone of Baasha who dies in the city the dogs will eat, and anyone of his who dies in the field the birds of the heavens will eat."

5 ⁷Now 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?

The Israelite Kings

6 And Baasha slept with his fathers and was buried in ⁸Tirzah, and Elah his son became king in his place.

7 Moreover, the word of the LORD through ⁹the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani also came against Baasha and his household, both because of all the evil which he did in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger with ¹⁰the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because * ¹¹he struck it.

8 In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha became king over Israel at Tirzah, and reigned two years.

9 His servant ¹²Zimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was at Tirzah drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, ¹³who was over the household at Tirzah.

10 Then Zimri went in and struck him and put him to death in the twenty-seventh * year of Asa king of Judah, and became king in his place.

11 It came about when he became king, as soon as he sat on his throne, that ¹⁴he killed all the household of Baasha; he did not leave a single male *, neither of his relatives nor of his friends.

12 Thus Zimri destroyed all the household of Baasha, ¹⁵according to the word of the LORD, which He spoke against Baasha through ¹⁶Jehu the prophet,

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1 Kings 16:2-12 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 16

This chapter contains a prophecy of the ruin of the family of Baasha, and an account of his death, 1Ki 16:1-7, and of his son's reigning in his stead two years, who was slain by Zimri one of his captains, 1Ki 16:8-14, and who reigned but seven days, 1Ki 16:15-20, and the people being divided between Tibni and Omri, the party for the latter prevailed, and he was made king, and reigned twelve years, 1Ki 16:21-28, and was succeeded by his son Ahab, a very wicked prince, 1Ki 16:29-33, and the chapter is concluded with the rebuilding of Jericho, 1Ki 16:34.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 16

1. 1 Samuel 2:8; 1 Kings 14:7
2. 1 Kings 15:34
3. 1 Kings 14:10; 1 Kings 21:21
4. 1 Kings 16:11
5. 1 Kings 15:29
6. 1 Kings 14:11; 1 Kings 21:24
7. 1 Kings 14:19; 1 Kings 15:31
8. 1 Kings 14:17; 1 Kings 15:21
9. 1 Kings 16:1
10. Psalms 115:4; Isaiah 2:8
11. 1 Kings 14:14; 1 Kings 15:27, 29
12. 2 Kings 9:30-33
13. Genesis 24:2; Genesis 39:4; 1 Kings 18:3
14. 1 Kings 15:29; 1 Kings 16:3
15. 1 Kings 16:3
16. 2 Chronicles 19:2; 2 Chronicles 20:34

Footnotes 4

[a]. Or "him"
[b]. Lit "smote"
[c]. Lit "him who urinates against the wall"
[d]. Lit "redeemers"