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"Inasmuch* as I exalted you from the dust and made you leaderover My peopleIsrael, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made My peopleIsraelsin, provoking Me to anger with their sins,
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Moreover, the word of the LORDthrough the prophetJehu the son of HananialsocameagainstBaasha and his household, both because of all the evilwhich he did in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because* he struck it.
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His servantZimri, commander of half his chariots, conspiredagainst him. Now he was at Tirzahdrinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household at Tirzah.
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It came about when he becameking, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he killedall the household of Baasha; he did not leave a single male*, neither of his relatives nor of his friends.
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for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and which they made Israelsin, provoking the LORDGod of Israel to anger with their idols.
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In the twenty-seventh*year of Asaking of Judah, Zimrireignedsevendays at Tirzah. Now the people were campedagainstGibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.
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The people who were campedheard it said, "Zimri has conspired and has alsostruckdown the king." Therefore allIsraelmadeOmri, the commander of the army, kingoverIsrael that day in the camp.
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because of his sinswhich he sinned, doingevil in the sight of the LORD, walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sinwhich he did, making Israelsin.
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Now the rest of the acts of Zimri and his conspiracywhich he carried out, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles* of the Kings of Israel?
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Then the people of Israel were divided into twoparts: half of the peoplefollowed*Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; the other halffollowedOmri.
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He bought the hillSamaria from Shemer for two talents of silver; and he built on the hill, and named* the citywhich he builtSamaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.
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Now the rest of the acts of Omriwhich he did and his mightwhich he showed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles* of the Kings of Israel?
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Now Ahab the son of OmribecamekingoverIsrael in the thirty-eighth*year of Asaking of Judah, and Ahab the son of OmrireignedoverIsrael in Samariatwenty-two*years.
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It came about, as though it had been a trivialthing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he married*Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaalking of the Sidonians, and went to serveBaal and worshiped him.
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In his daysHiel the BethelitebuiltJericho; he laid its foundations with the loss of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates with the loss of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which He spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.