I Kings 16 · מלכים א

Then the word of the Lord came to Yehu the son of Ḥanani against Ba῾asha, saying,

Since I have exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee prince over my people Yisra᾽el; and thou hast walked in the way of Yorov῾am and hast made my people Yisra᾽el to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;

behold, I will utterly sweep away Ba῾asha, and his house; and will make thy house like the house of Yorov῾am the son of Nevat.

Him that dies of Ba῾asha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dies of his in the field the birds of the air shall eat.

Now the rest of the acts of Ba῾asha, and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yisra᾽el?

So Ba῾asha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirża: and Ela his son reigned in his stead.

And also by the hand of the prophet Yehu the son of Ḥanani came the word of the Lord against Ba῾asha, and against his house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the Lord, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Yorov῾am; and because he smote him.

In the twenty sixth year of Asa king of Yehuda began Ela the son of Ba῾asha to reign over Yisra᾽el in Tirża; he reigned for two years.

And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirża, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arża who was over his house in Tirża.

And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty seventh year of Asa king of Yehuda, and reigned in his stead.

And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he slew all the house of Ba῾asha: he left him not one male person, neither of his kinsfolk, nor of his friends.

Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Ba῾asha, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke against Ba῾asha by Yehu the prophet,

for all the sins of Ba῾asha, and the sins of Ela his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Yisra᾽el to sin, so provoking the Lord God of Yisra᾽el to anger with their vanities.

Now the rest of the acts of Ela, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yisra᾽el?

In the twenty seventh year of Asa king of Yehuda did Zimri reign seven days in Tirża. And the people were encamped against Gibbeton, which belonged to the Pelishtim.

And the people that were encamped heard say, Zimri has conspired, and has also slain the king: then all Yisra᾽el made ῾Omri, the captain of the host, king over Yisra᾽el that day in the camp.

And ῾Omri went up from Gibbeton, and all Yisra᾽el with him, and they besieged Tirża.

And 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,

for his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of the Lord, in walking in the way of Yorov῾am, and in his sin which he did, to make Yisra᾽el to sin.

Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his plot which he plotted, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yisra᾽el?

Then were the people of Yisra᾽el divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tivni the son of Ginat, to make him king; and half followed ῾Omri.

But the people that followed ῾Omri prevailed against the people that followed Tivni the son of Ginat: so Tivni died, and ῾Omri reigned.

In the thirty first year of Asa king of Yehuda did ῾Omri begin to reign over Yisra᾽el; he reigned twelve years: (six years he reigned in Tirża.)

And he bought the hill Shomeron of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Shomeron.

But ῾Omri did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and did worse than all that were before him.

For he walked in all the way of Yorov῾am the son of Nevat, and in his sin by which he made Yisra᾽el to sin, to provoke the Lord God of Yisra᾽el to anger with their vanities.

Now 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 Yisra᾽el?

So ῾Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Shomeron: and Aĥ᾽av his son reigned in his stead.

And in the thirty eighth year of Asa king of Yehuda began Aĥ᾽av the son of ῾Omri to reign over Yisra᾽el: and Aĥ᾽av the son of ῾Omri reigned over Yisra᾽el in Shomeron twenty two years.

And Aĥ᾽av the son of ῾Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord more than all that were before him.

And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Yorov῾am the son of Nevat, that he took to wife Izevel, the daughter of Etba῾al king of the Żidonians, and went and served the Ba῾al, and prostrated himself to him.

And he reared up an altar for the Ba῾al in the house of the Ba῾al, which he had built in Shomeron.

And Aĥ᾽av made an Ashera; and Aĥ᾽av did more to provoke the Lord God of Yisra᾽el to anger than all the kings of Yisra᾽el that were before him.

In his days did Ḥi᾽el the Bet-eli build Yeriĥo: he laid its foundation with Aviram his firstborn, and set up its gates with his youngest son Seguv, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke by Yehoshua the son of Nun.