1Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu, the son of Hanani, against Baasha, saying, 2Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust and made thee prince over my people Israel, and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam and hast made my people Israel sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins; 3behold, I will burn up the posterity of Baasha and the posterity of his house and will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat. 4He that dies of Baasha in the city, the dogs shall eat; and he that dies of his in the fields, the fowls of the air shall eat. 5Now 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? 6So Baasha slept with his fathers and was buried in Tirzah, and Elah, his son, reigned in his stead. 7And likewise by the hand of the prophet Jehu, the son of Hanani, had come [the] word of the LORD upon Baasha and upon his house and upon all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, so that he was made like the house of Jeroboam and because of having smitten him. 8In the year twenty-six of Asa, king of Judah, Elah, the son of Baasha, began to reign over Israel in Tirzah, [and he reigned] two years. 9And his servant Zimri, captain of half [his] chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, steward of [his] house in Tirzah. 10And Zimri went in and smote him and killed him, in the year twenty-seven of Asa, king of Judah, and reigned in his stead. 11And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, [that] he smote all the house of Baasha; he left him not one that pisses against a wall, neither of his kinsfolk, nor of his friends. 12Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu, the prophet, 13for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah, his son, by which they sinned and by which they made Israel sin, provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities. 14Now the rest of the acts of Elah and all that he did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 15In the year twenty-seven of Asa, king of Judah, Zimri began to reign in Tirzah, [and he reigned] seven days. And the people [were] encamped against Gibbethon, which [belonged] to the Philistines. 16And the people [that were] in the camp heard it said, Zimri has conspired and has killed the king. Therefore, all Israel made Omri, the captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp. 17And Omri went up from Gibbethon and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah. 18And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the palace of the king's house and burnt the king's house over him with fire, and died, 19for his sins which he committed in doing evil in the sight of the LORD, in walking in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin which he did, making Israel sin. 20Now the rest of the acts of Zimri and his treason that he wrought, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 21Then the people of Israel were divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni, the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri. 22But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people that followed Tibni, the son of Ginath; so Tibni died, and Omri reigned. 23In the year thirty-one of Asa, king of Judah, Omri began to reign over Israel, and he reigned twelve years; he reigned six years in Tirzah. 24And he bought the mountain of Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver and built on the mount and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, lord of the hill, Samaria. 25And Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD and did worse than all that [were] before him. 26For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and in his sin with which he made Israel sin, provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities. 27Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did and his might that he showed, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 28So Omri slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria; and Ahab, his son, reigned in his stead. 29And in the year thirty-eight of Asa, king of Judah, Ahab, the son of Omri, began to reign over Israel. And Ahab the son of Omri, reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years. 30And Ahab, the son of Omri, did evil in the sight of the LORD above all that [were] before him, 31for it was as a light thing unto him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and he took to wife Jezebel, the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal and worshipped him. 32And he raised up an altar to Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria. 33Ahab also made groves, and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him. 34In his time Hiel, the Bethelite, rebuilt Jericho. He laid the foundation thereof in Abiram, his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest [son] Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he had spoken by Joshua the son of Nun.: