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16 Then Yahweh told Hanani’s son Yehu to tell Baasha, 2 “I took a nobody and promoted you to leader over my people Israel, yet you followed Yarobam’s behaviour and provoked me to anger by causing my people Israel to sin, 3 so now I’ll get rid of you and your family—I’ll do the same to you that I did to Yarobam and his family. 4 The bodies of those in your family who die in the city will be eaten by dogs, and those who die in the countryside will be eaten by vultures.
5 Everything else that Baasha did is written in the book of the events of the kings of Israel. 6 When Baasha died he was buried in Tirtsah, and his son Elah replaced him as king.
7 Yahweh sent that message via Hanani the prophet’s son Yehu. It was for Baasha and his family—speaking against the evil that they’d done that had provoked Yahweh to get angry with their behaviour which was as bad as Yarobam’s family had been. Yahweh was also angry with Baasha because he had killed all of Yarobam’s family.
16:8 Elah’s reign over Israel
8 Baasha’s son Elah began to reign in the twenty-sixth year of King Asa’s reign over Yehudah, and he ruled from Tirtsah for two years. 9 However, his servant Zimri who was the commander of half of the chariots conspired against him. Once when Elah was in Tirtsah getting himself drunk at the house of Arza (who was in charge of the palace), 10 Zimri went in and attacked and killed him, and took over his place as king. (That was in the twenty-seventh year of King Asa’s reign over Yehudah.)
11 As soon as Zimri took over and sat on his throne, he had all of Baasha’s family executed—he didn’t leave a single male or relative or friend. 12 In that way, Zimri eliminated all of Baasha’s descendants just as Yahweh had said via the prophet Yehu 13 concerning all of Baasha’s sins and the sins of his son Elah, and because they caused Israel to sin by provoking Israel’s God Yahweh to get angry with their idols. 14 Everything else that Elah did is written in the book of the events of the kings of Israel.
16:15 Zimri’s reign over Israel
15 Zimri reigned from Tirtsah for seven days in the twenty-seventh year of King Asa’s reign over Yehudah. At the time, the Israeli army were besieging the Philistine city of Gibbeton, 16 and when the army camped around the city heard that Zimri had reblled and assasinated the king, that day all the people in the camp installed the army commander Omri as king to reign over Israel. 17 So Omri took all his warriors from Gibbeton and besieged Tirtsah. 18 As soon as Zimri realised that the city was surrounded, he went into the saferoom in the palace and set fire to the building and died in the flames 19 because he’d done what Yahweh had said was evil—following Yarobam’s behaviour including causing Israel to sin. 20 Everything else that Zimri did, including his rebellion, is written in the book of the events of the kings of Israel.
16:21 Omri’s reign over Israel
21 At that time, the people of Israel were divided concerning their leadership—half of them supported Ginnat’s son Tivni as king, and the other half supported Omri, 22 but those supporting Omri prevailed, so Tivni was executed and Omri remained in power. 23 Omri became king in the thirty-first years of King Asa’s reign over Yehudah, and reigned over Israel for twelve years—six of them from Tirtsah. 24 He bought a hill from a man named Shemer for seventy kilograms of silver, then built his capital city on it. He named it Shomron (Samaria) in honour of Shemer who’d owned the hill.
25 Omri did what Yahweh had said was evil—in fact he did more evil things than all those kings who preceded him. 26 He followed (Nabat’s son) Yarobam’s behaviour including causing Israel to sin by provoking Israel’s God Yahweh to get angry with their idols. 27 Everything else that Omri did, including his military victories, is written in the book of the events of the kings of Israel. 28 Then Omri died and was buried in Shomron, and his son Ahav (Ahab) replaced him as king.
16:29 Ahav’s reign over Israel
29 Omri’s son Ahav became king of Israel in the thirty-eighth year of King Ahab’s reign over Yehudah, and he reigned Israel from Shomrom for twenty-two years. 30 Ahav did what Yahweh had said was evil—in fact he did more evil things than all those kings who preceded him. 31 As if following Yarobam’s behaviour wasn’t bad enough, he married Izevel (Jezebel), the daughter of the Sidonian King Etbaal, then went and served Baal and bowed down to him. 32 He built a temple for Baal in Shomrom and placed an altar in it. 33 Ahav also made an Asherah pole and went on to provoke Israel’s God Yahweh to get angry, more than any of the previous kings of Israel had done. 34 During his reign, Hiel from Bethel rebuilt Yeriko city. As they laid the foundations, his eldest son Aviram died, and when they hung the city gates, his youngest son Seguv died, just as Yahweh had told (Nun’s son) Yehoshua (Joshua).[ref]
16:19 Variant note: חטאת/ו: (x-qere) ’חַטֹּאתָי/ו֙’: lemma_2403 b n_1.1.0 morph_HNcfpc/Sp3ms id_11mi6 חַטֹּאתָי/ו֙
16:26 Variant note: ו/ב/חטאתי/ו: (x-qere) ’וּ/בְ/חַטָּאת֔/וֹ’: lemma_c/b/2403 b n_1.1 morph_HC/R/Ncfsc/Sp3ms id_11yiC וּ/בְ/חַטָּאת֔/וֹ
16:26 Note: We read punctuation in L differently from BHS.
16:34 Variant note: ו/ב/שגיב: (x-qere) ’וּ/בִ/שְׂג֤וּב’: lemma_c/b/7687 morph_HC/R/Np id_11nHu וּ/בִ/שְׂג֤וּב
If you ask someone today what biblical prophets did, they will likely tell you that they divinely foretold of future events. While this was often the case, most prophets in the Bible focused as much on “forthtelling” God’s messages as they did on “foretelling” the future. That is, their primary role was to simply “forthtell” divinely acquired messages to leaders and groups of people, and at times that included foretelling of coming judgment, blessing, rescue, etc. Also, though plenty of prophets (sometimes called “seers” in Scripture) often spoke in confrontational or eccentric language that put them at odds with kings and religious leaders, the biblical writers also applied the term prophet to people who communicated God’s messages in ways that many readers today might not think of as prophecy, such as worship leaders appointed by David to “prophesy with lyres, harps, and cymbals” (1 Chronicles 25:1). Similarly, the books of Joshua, Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel, and 1 & 2 Kings are typically categorized as history by Christians, but in the Hebrew canon they belong to the category of Former Prophets. The Lord raised up prophets throughout all of biblical history, from the giving of the law under Moses to the revelation of the last days by the apostle John, and the kings of Israel and Judah often recognized and supported specific people as official prophets of the royal court and consulted them to find out God’s perspective about official matters. Following is a list of nearly everyone designated as prophet or seer in the Old Testament and the primary area of their ministry.
• Deborah (1216 B.C.) [Judges 4:4] => Baal-tamar?
• Samuel (1070 B.C.) [1 Samuel 3:20; 1 Chronicles 29:29; 2 Chronicles 35:18] => Ramah
• Gad (1018 B.C.) [2 Samuel 24:11; 1 Chronicles 21:9; 29:29; 2 Chronicles 29:25] => Masada?
• Nathan (1000 B.C.) [2 Samuel 12:1; 1 Chronicles 29:29; 2 Chronicles 29:25] => Jerusalem
• Asaph (1000 B.C.) [2 Chronicles 29:30] => Jerusalem
• Ahijah (935 B.C.) [1 Kings 11:29; 2 Chronicles 9:29] => Jerusalem
• Shemaiah (930 B.C.) [2 Chronicles 12:2-15] => Jerusalem
• Iddo (913 B.C.) [2 Chronicles 9:29; 12:15; 13:22] => Jerusalem
• Jehu son of Hanani (890 B.C.) [1 Kings 16:1-7; 2 Chronicles 19:2] => Samaria?
• Azariah (890 B.C.) [2 Chronicles 15:1-8] => Jerusalem
• Elijah (860 B.C.) [1 Kings 18:36] => Samaria
• Micaiah (853 B.C.) [1 Kings 22:8-23; 2 Chronicles 18:7-22] => Samaria
• Jahaziel (853 B.C.) [2 Chronicles 20:14] => Jerusalem
• Eliezer (853 B.C.) [2 Chronicles 20:37] => Mareshah
• Elisha (850 B.C.) [1 Kings 19:16; 2 Kings 2:15] => Samaria
• Joel (835 B.C.) [Joel 1:1] => Jerusalem
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