1 Kings 16

1Yahweh’s word came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,Cross-references: 1Ki 15:33 · 1Ki 16:7 · 2Chr 16:7 · 2Chr 19:2 · 2Chr 20:34

2“Because I exalted you out of the dust and made you prince over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins,Cross-references: Ex 32:21 · 1Sam 2:8 · 1Sam 2:24 · 1Sam 2:27 · 1Sam 15:17 · 1Sam 26:19 · +9 more

3behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house; and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.Cross-references: 1Ki 14:10 · 1Ki 15:29 · 1Ki 16:11 · 1Ki 21:21 · Isa 66:24 · Jer 22:19

4The dogs will eat Baasha’s descendants who die in the city; and he who dies of his in the field, the birds of the sky will eat.”Cross-references: 1Ki 14:11 · 1Ki 21:24

5Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?Cross-references: 1Ki 14:19 · 1Ki 15:31 · 2Chr 16:1

6Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah; and Elah his son reigned in his place.Cross-references: 1Ki 14:17 · 1Ki 14:20 · 1Ki 15:21 · 1Ki 15:25 · 1Ki 16:8 · 1Ki 16:13

7Moreover Yahweh’s word came by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha and against his house, both because of all the evil that he did in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he struck him.Cross-references: Ex 20:5 · 1Ki 14:14 · 1Ki 15:27 · 1Ki 16:1 · 2Ki 10:30 · Ps 115:4 · +6 more

8In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha began to reign over Israel in Tirzah for two years.

9His servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah;Cross-references: Gen 15:2 · Gen 24:2 · Gen 24:10 · Gen 39:4 · Gen 39:9 · 1Sam 25:36 · +18 more

10and Zimri went in and struck him and killed him in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place.Cross-references: 2Ki 9:31

11When he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, he attacked all the house of Baasha. He didn’t leave him a single one who urinates on a wall among his relatives or his friends.Cross-references: Judg 1:7 · 1Sam 25:22 · 1Sam 25:34 · 1Ki 14:10 · 1Ki 15:29 · 1Ki 16:3

12Thus Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha, according to Yahweh’s word which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,Cross-references: 1Ki 14:18 · 1Ki 16:1 · 1Ki 16:3 · 1Ki 16:7 · 2Ki 14:25 · 2Chr 10:15 · +1 more

13for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and with which they made Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.Cross-references: Deut 32:21 · 1Sam 12:21 · 1Ki 15:30 · 2Ki 17:15 · Isa 41:29 · Jer 10:3 · +6 more

14Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

15In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.Cross-references: Josh 19:44 · Josh 21:23 · 1Ki 15:27 · 1Ki 16:8 · 2Ki 9:31 · Job 20:5 · +1 more

16The people who were encamped heard that Zimri had conspired, and had also killed the king. Therefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp.Cross-references: 1Ki 16:30 · 2Ki 8:26 · 2Chr 22:2 · Mic 6:16

17Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.Cross-references: Judg 9:45 · Judg 9:50 · Judg 9:56 · 2Ki 6:24 · 2Ki 18:9 · 2Ki 25:1 · +1 more

18When Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the fortified part of the king’s house and burned the king’s house over him with fire, and died,Cross-references: Judg 9:54 · 1Sam 31:4 · 2Sam 17:23 · Job 2:9 · Matt 27:5

19for his sins which he sinned in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did to make Israel to sin.Cross-references: 1Ki 12:28 · 1Ki 14:16 · 1Ki 15:26 · 1Ki 15:30 · 1Ki 15:34 · 1Ki 16:7 · +3 more

20Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he committed, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?Cross-references: 1Ki 14:19 · 1Ki 15:31 · 1Ki 16:5 · 1Ki 16:14 · 1Ki 16:27 · 1Ki 22:39

21Then the people of Israel were divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king, and half followed Omri.Cross-references: 1Ki 15:25 · 1Ki 15:28 · 1Ki 16:8 · 1Ki 16:29 · Prov 28:2 · Isa 9:18 · +4 more

22But the people who followed Omri prevailed against the people who followed Tibni the son of Ginath; so Tibni died, and Omri reigned.

23In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri began to reign over Israel for twelve years. He reigned six years in Tirzah.Cross-references: 1Ki 15:21 · 1Ki 16:8 · 1Ki 16:29 · 2Chr 22:2

24He bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver; and he built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.Cross-references: 1Ki 13:32 · 1Ki 16:28 · 1Ki 16:32 · 1Ki 18:2 · 1Ki 20:1 · 1Ki 22:37 · +5 more

25Omri did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and dealt wickedly above all who were before him.Cross-references: 1Ki 14:9 · 1Ki 16:30 · 1Ki 16:33 · Mic 6:16

26For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sins with which he made Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.Cross-references: 1Ki 12:26 · 1Ki 13:33 · 1Ki 16:2 · 1Ki 16:7 · 1Ki 16:13 · 1Ki 16:19 · +9 more

27Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he showed, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?Cross-references: 1Ki 15:31 · 1Ki 16:5 · 1Ki 16:14 · 1Ki 16:20

28So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria; and Ahab his son reigned in his place.

29In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel. Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.

30Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight above all that were before him.Cross-references: 1Ki 14:9 · 1Ki 16:25 · 1Ki 16:31 · 1Ki 16:33 · 1Ki 21:25 · 2Ki 3:2

31As if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal and worshiped him.Cross-references: Gen 6:2 · Gen 30:15 · Num 16:9 · Deut 7:3 · Josh 23:12 · Judg 2:11 · +21 more

32He raised up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.Cross-references: 2Ki 10:21 · 2Ki 10:26

33Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did more yet to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.Cross-references: Ex 34:13 · 1Ki 14:9 · 1Ki 16:29 · 1Ki 21:19 · 1Ki 21:25 · 1Ki 22:6 · +5 more

34In his days Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho. He laid its foundation with the loss of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates with the loss of his youngest son Segub, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.Cross-references: Josh 6:26 · Josh 23:14 · Zech 1:5 · Matt 24:35