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And likewise by the hand of the prophet Jehu, the son of Hanani, had come
the word of the LORD upon Baasha and upon his house and upon all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, so that he would be made like the house of Jeroboam and because of having smitten him.
8
In the year twenty-six of Asa, king of Judah, Elah, the son of Baasha, began to reign over Israel in Tirzah,
and he reigned two years.
9
And his slave 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.
10
And Zimri went in and smote him and killed him, in the year twenty-seven of Asa, king of Judah, and reigned in his stead.
11
And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne,
that he smote all the house of Baasha; he left him not one that pisses against a wall, neither of his kinsfolk, {Heb. redeemers}, nor of his friends.
12
Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke 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 sin, 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?
15
In the year twenty-seven of Asa, king of Judah, Zimri began to reign in Tirzah,
and he reigned seven days. And the people
were encamped against Gibbethon, which
belonged to the Philistines.
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And the people
that were in the camp heard it said, Zimri has conspired and has killed the king. Therefore, 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.