Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead. ] Which seems to be his only or chief view in slaying him, to get possession of his kingdom.
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He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the evil ways of his father, and the sin which he did and made Israel do.
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And Baasha, the son of Ahijah, of the family of Issachar, made a secret design against him, attacking him at Gibbethon, a town of the Philistines; for Nadab and the armies of Israel were making war on Gibbethon.
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In the third year of the rule of Asa, king of Judah, Baasha put him to death, and became king in his place.
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And straight away when he became king, he sent destruction on all the offspring of Jeroboam; there was not one living person of all the family of Jeroboam whom he did not put to death, so the word of the Lord, which he said by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite, came about;
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Because of the sins which Jeroboam did and made Israel do, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath.
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