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Event

Reign of Baasha

952 BCfor 24Y

Relationships

Participants Baasha
Locations Samaria
Preceded by Reign of Asa

Key verses

1 Kings 16:2
“Because I exalted you out of the dust, and made you prince over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;
1 Kings 15:34
He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.
1 Kings 16:1
Yahweh’s word came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
1 Kings 16:3
behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house; and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
1 Kings 16:4
The dogs will eat Baasha’s descendants who die in the city; and he who dies of his in the field the birds of the sky will eat.”
1 Kings 16:5
Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?