3. So I will destroy Baasha and his family. I will make his family like the family of Jer o boam (Nebat’s son).
4. Dogs will eat anyone from Baasha’s ⌊family⌋ who dies in the city. Birds will eat anyone from his ⌊family⌋ who dies in the country.”
5. Isn’t everything else about Baasha—what he did and his heroic acts—written in the official records of the kings of Israel?
6. Baasha lay down in death with his ancestors and was buried in Tirzah. His son Elah succeeded him as king.
7. In addition, the Lord spoke his word to the prophet Jehu, Hanani’s son, against Baasha and his family because of all the things Baasha did which the Lord considered evil. Baasha’s actions, which made the Lord furious, were like ⌊the sin of⌋ Jer o boam’s family. The Lord was also furious because Baasha destroyed Jer o boam’s family.
8. Elah, son of Baasha, began to rule Israel in Asa’s twenty-sixth year as Judah’s king. He ruled in Tirzah for two years.