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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>1 Kings 16 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_kings/16.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_kings/16-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > 1 Kings 16</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_kings/15.htm" title="1 Kings 15">◄</a> 1 Kings 16 <a href="../1_kings/17.htm" title="1 Kings 17">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/1_kings/16.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/16-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/16-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Since I exalted you out of the dust and made you leader over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made my people Israel to sin, provoking me to anger with their sins, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/16-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Anyone belonging to Baasha who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone of his who dies in the field the birds of the heavens shall eat.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Now 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? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And Baasha slept with his fathers and was buried at Tirzah, and Elah his son reigned in his place. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Moreover, the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha and his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and also because he destroyed it.</p> <p class="heading">Elah Reigns in Israel</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha began to reign over Israel in Tirzah, and he reigned two years. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But his servant Zimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him. When he was at Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Zimri came in and struck him down and killed him, in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>When he began to reign, as soon as he had seated himself on his throne, he struck down all the house of Baasha. He did not leave him a single male of his relatives or his friends. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Thus Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and which they made Israel to sin, provoking the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> God of Israel to anger with their idols. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Now 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?</p> <p class="heading">Zimri Reigns in Israel</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the troops were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>and the troops who were encamped heard it said, “Zimri has conspired, and he has killed the king.” Therefore all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And when Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the citadel of the king’s house and burned the king’s house over him with fire and died, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>because of his sins that he committed, doing evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, walking in the way of Jeroboam, and for his sin which he committed, making Israel to sin. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and the conspiracy that he made, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?</p> <p class="heading">Omri Reigns in Israel</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But the people who followed Omri overcame the people who followed Tibni the son of Ginath. So Tibni died, and Omri became king. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/16-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri began to reign over Israel, and he reigned for twelve years; six years he reigned in Tirzah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/16-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms">a</a></sup></span> of silver, and he fortified the hill and called the name of the city that he built Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/16-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Omri did what was evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and did more evil than all who were before him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/16-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in the sins that he made Israel to sin, provoking the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, to anger by their idols. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/16-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Now the rest of the acts of Omri that he did, and the might that he showed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/16-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And Omri slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria, and Ahab his son reigned in his place.</p> <p class="heading">Ahab Reigns in Israel</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/16-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>In the thirty-eighth year 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/16-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, more than all who were before him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/16-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took for his wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal and worshiped him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/16-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>He erected an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he built in Samaria. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/16-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And Ahab made an Asherah. Ahab did more to provoke the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/16-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>In his days Hiel of Bethel built Jericho. He laid its foundation at the cost of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates at the cost of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">24</span> A <i class="catch-word-plural">talent</i> was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. Unauthorized reproduction of this publication is prohibited. 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