⁹ But his officer Zimri, the commander of half his chariots, conspired against him while Elah was in Tirzah getting drunk at the house of Arza, the palace administrator of Tirzah. ¹⁰ Zimri came in and struck him down and killed him in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and he became king in his place.

¹¹ When Zimri became king, as soon as he was seated on the throne, he struck down the entire house of Ba’asha. He did not leave for him anyone who urinates against the wall,^[a] neither relatives nor friends. ¹² So Zimri exterminated the entire house of Ba’asha according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke to Ba’asha through the prophet Jehu. ¹³ He did this because of all the sins which Ba’asha and his son Elah committed and which they caused Israel to commit. They provoked the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger with their useless idols. ¹⁴ As for the rest of Elah’s acts and everything he did, are they not written in the annals of the kings of Israel?