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1 Kings 16:7-12 World Messianic Bible British Edition (WMBBE)

7. Moreover the Lord’s word came by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha and against his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the Lord’s sight, to provoke him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he struck him.

8. In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha began to reign over Israel in Tirzah for two years.

9. His servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah;

10. and Zimri went in and struck him, and killed him, in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place.

11. When he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, he attacked all the house of Baasha. He didn’t leave him a single one who urinates on a wall amongst his relatives or his friends.

12. Thus Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha, according to the Lord’s word, which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,

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