16 Now the word of Yahweh came to ^(A)Jehu the son of ^(B)Hanani against Baasha, saying, ² “Inasmuch as I ^(C)exalted you from the dust and made you ruler over My people Israel, and ^(D)you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made My people Israel sin, provoking Me to anger with their sins, ³ behold, ^(E)I am going to sweep away ^(F)Baasha and his house, and ^(G)I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat. ^4 (H)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.”

^5 (I)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? ⁶ And Baasha slept with his fathers and was buried in ^(J)Tirzah, and Elah his son became king in his place. ⁷ Moreover, the word of Yahweh through the hand of ^(K)the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani also came about against Baasha and his household, both because of all the evil which he did in the sight of Yahweh, provoking Him to anger with ^(L)the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because ^(M)he struck ^[a]it.