1. The Lord sent Jehu son of Hanani to say to Baasha:
2. Nobody knew who you were until I, the Lord, chose you to be the leader of my people Israel. And now you're acting exactly like Jeroboam by causing the Israelites to sin. What you've done has made me so angry
3. that I will destroy you and your family, just as I did the family of Jeroboam.
4. Dogs will eat the bodies of your relatives who die in town, and vultures will eat the bodies of those who die in the country.
5-7. Baasha made the Lord very angry, and that's why the Lord gave Jehu this message for Baasha and his family. Baasha constantly disobeyed the Lord by following Jeroboam's sinful example—but even worse, he killed everyone in Jeroboam's family!Everything else Baasha did while he was king, including his brave deeds, is written in The History of the Kings of Israel. Baasha died and was buried in Tirzah, and his son Elah became king.
8. Elah son of Baasha became king of Israel after Asa had been king of Judah for twenty-five years, and he ruled from Tirzah for two years.
9. Zimri commanded half of Elah's chariots, and he made plans to kill Elah.One day, Elah was in Tirzah, getting drunk at the home of Arza, his prime minister,
10. when Zimri went there and killed Elah. So Zimri became king in the twenty-seventh year of Asa's rule in Judah.
11. As soon as Zimri became king, he killed everyone in Baasha's family. Not one man or boy in his family was left alive—even his close friends were killed.
12. Baasha's family was completely wiped out, just as the Lord's prophet Jehu had warned.