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behold, (A)I am going to sweep away (B)Baasha and his house, and (C)I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat. (D)Anyone of Baasha who dies in the city the dogs will eat, and anyone of his who dies in the field the birds of the sky will eat.”

(E)Now the rest of the acts of Baasha and what he did and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

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11 Now it happened when he became king, as soon as he sat on his throne, that (A)he struck down all the household of Baasha; he did not leave [a]a single male—not even any of his kinsman redeemers or his friends.

12 Thus Zimri destroyed all the household of Baasha, (B)according to the word of Yahweh, which He spoke against Baasha by the hand of (C)Jehu the prophet,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 16:11 Lit him who urinates against the wall, cf. 1 Sam 25:22, 34; 1 Kin 14:10; 21:21; 2 Kin 9:8