6. Baasha rested with his ancestors; he was buried in Tirzah, and his son Elah succeeded him as king.
7. (Through the prophet Jehu, son of Hanani, the word of the Lord came against Baasha and his house, because of all the evil Baasha did in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger by his deeds so that he became like the house of Jeroboam, and because of what he destroyed.)
8. In the twenty-sixth year of Asa, king of Judah, Elah, son of Baasha, became king of Israel in Tirzah for two years.
9. His servant Zimri, commander of half his chariots, plotted against him. As he was in Tirzah, drinking to excess in the house of Arza, master of his palace in Tirzah,
10. Zimri entered; he struck and killed him in the twenty-seventh year of Asa, king of Judah, and succeeded him as king.
11. Once he was king, seated on the throne, he killed the whole house of Baasha, not sparing a single male relative or friend of his.
12. Zimri destroyed the entire house of Baasha, according to the word the Lord spoke against Baasha through Jehu the prophet,
13. because of all the sins which Baasha and his son Elah committed and caused Israel to commit, provoking the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger by their idols.
14. The rest of the acts of Elah, with all that he did, are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
15. In the twenty-seventh year of Asa, king of Judah, Zimri became king for seven days in Tirzah.The army was encamped at Gibbethon of the Philistines
16. when they heard, “Zimri has formed a conspiracy and has killed the king.” So that day in the camp all Israel made Omri, commander of the army, king of Israel.
17. Omri and all Israel with him marched up from Gibbethon and besieged Tirzah.
18. When Zimri saw that the city was captured, he entered the citadel of the king’s house and burned it down over him. He died
19. because of the sins he had committed, doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight by walking in the way of Jeroboam and the sin he had caused Israel to commit.
20. The rest of the acts of Zimri, with the conspiracy he carried out, are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
21. At that time the people of Israel were divided in two, half following Tibni, son of Ginath, to make him king, and half for Omri.
22. The partisans of Omri prevailed over those of Tibni, son of Ginath. Tibni died and Omri became king.
23. In the thirty-first year of Asa, king of Judah, Omri became king of Israel for twelve years; the first six of them he reigned in Tirzah.