1. Then the word of the Lord came to Jehu, the son of Hanani, against Baasha, saying,
2. Forasmuch 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;
3. behold, 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.
4. He 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.
5. 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?
6. So Baasha slept with his fathers and was buried in Tirzah, and Elah, his son, reigned in his stead.
7. And 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 would be made like the house of Jeroboam and because of having smitten him.
8. In 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.
9. And his slave 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.