CLV(i)
1 And a word of Yahweh is unto Jehu son of Hanani, against Baasha, saying,
2 `Because that I have raised you up out of the dust, and appoint you leader over My people Israel, and you walk in the way of Jeroboam, and cause My people Israel to sin--to provoke Me to anger with their sins;"
3 lo, I am putting away the posterity of Baasha, even the posterity of his house, and have given up your house as the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat;"
4 him who dies of Baasha in a city do the dogs eat, and him who dies of his in a field do fowl of the heavens eat..
5 And the rest of the matters of Baasha, and that which he did, and his might, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?
6 And Baasha lies with his fathers, and is buried in Tirzah, and Elah his son reigns in his stead.
7 And also by the hand of Jehu son of Hanani the prophet a word of Yahweh has been concerning Baasha, and concerning his house, and concerning all the evil that he did in the eyes of Yahweh to provoke Him to anger with the work of his hands, to be like the house of Jeroboam, and concerning that for which he smote him.
8 In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah reigned has Elah son of Baasha over Israel in Tirzah, two years;"
9 and conspire against him does his servant Zimri (head of the half of the chariots) and he [is] in Tirzah drinking--a drunkard in the house of Arza, who [is] over the house in Tirzah.
10 And Zimri comes in and smites him, and puts him to death, in the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigns in his stead;"
11 and it comes to pass in his reigning, at his sitting on his throne, he has smitten the whole house of Baasha; he has not left to him any sitting on the wall, and of his redeemers, and of his friends.
12 And Zimri destroys the whole house of Baasha, according to the word of Yahweh, that He spoke concerning Baasha, by the hand of Jehu the prophet.
13 concerning all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, that they sinned, and that they caused Israel to sin to provoke Yahweh, Elohim of Israel, with their vanities.
14 And the rest of the matters of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?
15 In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah, reigned has Zimri seven days in Tirzah; and the people are encamping against Gibbethon, which [is] to the Philistines;"
16 and the people who are encamping hear, saying, `Zimri has conspired, and also has smitten the king;' and all Israel cause Omri head of the host to reign over Israel on that day in the camp.
17 And Omri goes up, and all Israel with him, from Gibbethon, and they lay siege to Tirzah.
18 And it comes to pass, at Zimri's seeing that the city has been captured, that he comes in unto a high place of the house of the king, and burns over him the house of the king with fire, and dies,
19 for his sins that he sinned, to do the evil thing in the eyes of Yahweh, to walk in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin that he did, to cause Israel to sin;"
20 and the rest of the matters of Zimri, and his conspiracy that he made, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?
21 Then are the sons of Israel parted into halves; half of the people has been after Tibni son of Ginath to cause him to reign, and the half after Omri;"
22 and stronger are the people that are after Omri than the people that are after Tibni son of Ginath, and Tibni dies, and Omri reigns.
23 In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah reigned has Omri over Israel twelve years; in Tirzah he has reigned six years,
24 and he buys the mount Samaria from Shemer, with two talents of silver, and builds [on] the mount, and calls the name of the city that he has built by the name of Shemer, lord of the hill--Samaria.
25 And Omri does the evil thing in the eyes of Yahweh, and does evil above all who [are] before him,
26 and walks in all the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat, and in his sin that he caused Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, Elohim of Israel, with their vanities.
27 And the rest of the matters of Omri that he did, and his might that he got, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?
28 And Omri lies with his fathers, and is buried in Samaria, and Ahab his son reigns in his stead.
29 And Ahab son of Omri has reigned over Israel in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah, and Ahab son of Omri reigns over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years,
30 and Ahab son of Omri does the evil thing in the eyes of Yahweh above all who [are] before him.
31 And it comes to pass--has it been light his walking in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat? --then he takes a wife, Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Zidonians, and goes and serves Baal, and bows himself to it,
32 and raises up an altar for Baal, in the house of the Baal, that he built in Samaria;"
33 and Ahab makes the shrine, and Ahab adds to do so as to provoke Yahweh, Elohim of Israel, above all the kings of Israel who have been before him.
34 In his days has Hiel the Beth-Elite built Jericho; in Abiram his first-born he laid its foundation, and in Segub his youngest he set up its doors, according to the word of Yahweh that He spoke by the hand of Joshua son of Nun.