1. The word of Yahweh came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
2. “Because I exalted you from the dust and I made you a leader over my people Israel, but you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and you caused my people Israel to sin, to provoke me with their sins,
3. I am now about to consume Baasha and his house. I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
4. Those who die for Baasha in the city, the dogs will eat; those who die for him in the field, the birds of the heavens will eat.”
5. The remainder of the acts of Baasha, what he did, and his powerful deeds, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?
6. Baasha slept with his ancestors and was buried in Tirzah, and Elah his son became king in his place.
7. Moreover, the word of Yahweh came to Baasha and to his house by the hand of Jehu the son of Hanani the prophet, because of all the evil that he did in the eyes of Yahweh by provoking him with the work of his hands, by being like the house of Jeroboam; and he destroyed him.
8. In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha became king over Israel for two years.
9. His servant Zimri the commander of half of the chariots conspired against him. Now he had been in Tirzah drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza who was over the palace in Tirzah.
10. Zimri came and struck him down and killed him in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah and became king in his place.
11. It happened that as soon as he became king, at the moment he sat on his throne, he killed all of the house of Baasha. He left no males among his kindred or any of his friends.
12. So Zimri destroyed all of the house of Baasha according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke against Baasha by the hand of Jehu the prophet