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I Kings Chapter 16

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I KINGS

I Kings 16

1Then the word of the Lord came to Iehu the sonne of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
2 Chronicles 19:2, 2 Chronicles 20:34, 2 Chronicles 19:2, 2 Chronicles 20:34, 1 Kings 16:7
2Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee captaine ouer my people Israel, and thou hast walked in the way of Ieroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sinne, to prouoke me with their sinnes,
1 Kings 15:34, 1 Kings 14:7, 1 Kings 15:34, 1 Kings 14:7, 1 Samuel 2:8
3Beholde, I will take away the posteritie of Baasha, and the posteritie of his house, and will make thine house like the house of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat.
1 Kings 14:10, 1 Kings 14:10, 1 Kings 15:29, 1 Kings 15:30, Isaiah 66:24
4He that dyeth of Baashas stocke in the citie, him shall the dogs eate: and that man of him which dyeth in the fieldes, shall the foules of the ayre eate.
1 Kings 14:11, 1 Kings 14:11, 1 Kings 21:24, 1 Kings 21:24
5And the rest of the actes of Baasha and what he did, and his power, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1 Kings 15:31, 1 Kings 14:19, 1 Kings 15:31, 1 Kings 14:19, 2 Chronicles 16:1
6So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buryed in Tirzah, and Elah his sonne reigned in his steade.
1 Kings 14:17, 1 Kings 14:17, 1 Kings 15:21, 1 Kings 15:21, 1 Kings 16:13
7And also by the hande of Iehu the sonne of Hanani the Prophet, came the worde of the Lord to Baasha, and to his house, that he shoulde be like the house of Ieroboam, euen for all the wickednes that he did in the sight of the Lord, in prouoking him with the worke of his hands, and because he killed him.
Psalms 115:4, 1 Kings 14:14, Hosea 1:4, Isaiah 2:8, Psalms 115:4
8In the sixe and twentie yeere of Asa king of Iudah began Elah ye sonne of Baasha to reigne ouer Israel in Tirzah, and reigned two yeere.
9And his seruant Zimri, captaine of halfe his charets, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah drinking, til he was drunken in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah.
Daniel 5:1, Daniel 5:4, 1 Kings 18:3, Genesis 24:2, Genesis 39:4
10And Zimri came and smote him and killed him, in the seuen and twentie yeere of Asa king of Iudah, and reigned in his stead.
2 Kings 9:31, 2 Kings 9:31
11And when he was King, and sate on his throne, he slew al the house of Baasha, not leauing thereof one to pisse against a wall, neither of his kinsfolkes nor of his friendes.
1 Samuel 25:22, 1 Kings 16:3, 1 Kings 15:29, 1 Samuel 25:22, 1 Kings 16:3
12So did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the Lord which he spake against Baasha by the hande of Iehu the Prophet,
1 Kings 16:1, 1 Kings 16:1, 1 Kings 16:3, Proverbs 26:6, 2 Chronicles 10:15
13For all the sinnes of Baasha, and sinnes of Elah his sonne, which they sinned and made Israel to sinne, and prouoked the Lord God of Israel with their vanities.
Deuteronomy 32:21, Deuteronomy 32:21, 1 Kings 15:30, 1 Samuel 12:21, Isaiah 41:29
14And the rest of the actes of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
15In the seuen and twentie yeere of Asa King of Iudah did Zimri reigne seuen dayes in Tirzah, and the people was then in campe against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistims.
1 Kings 15:27, 1 Kings 15:27, Joshua 19:44, Joshua 19:44, 1 Kings 16:8
16And the people of the hoste heard saye, Zimri hath conspired, and hath also slayne the King. Wherefore all Israel made Omri the captaine of the hoste, king ouer Israel that same day, euen in the hoste.
1 Kings 16:30, 2 Kings 8:26, Micah 6:16, 2 Chronicles 22:2, 1 Kings 16:30
17Then Omri went vp from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.
2 Kings 18:9, 2 Kings 18:12, Judges 9:50, Luke 19:43, Luke 19:44
18And when Zimri saw, that the citie was taken, he went into the palace of the Kings house, and burnt himselfe, and the Kings house with fire, and so dyed,
2 Samuel 17:23, 2 Samuel 17:23, 1 Samuel 31:4, 1 Samuel 31:5, 1 Samuel 31:4
19For his sinnes which hee sinned, in doing that which is euil in the sight of the Lord, in walking in the way of Ieroboam, and in his sinnes which he did, causing Israel to sinne.
1 Kings 15:26, 1 Kings 15:26, 1 Kings 15:34, 1 Kings 12:28, 1 Kings 14:16
20And the rest of the actes of Zimri, and his treason that hee wrought, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kinges of Israel?
1 Kings 16:5, 1 Kings 16:14, 1 Kings 16:27, 1 Kings 16:5, 1 Kings 16:14
21Then were the people of Israel deuided into two partes: for halfe the people followed Tibni the sonne of Ginath to make him King, and the other halfe followed Omri.
Matthew 12:25, 1 Kings 16:8, 1 Kings 15:28, 1 Kings 15:25, Isaiah 19:2
22But the people that folowed Omri, preuayled against the people that followed Tibni the sonne of Ginath: so Tibni dyed, and Omri reigned.
23In the one and thirtie yeere of Asa King of Iudah bega Omri to reigne ouer Israel, and reigned twelue yeere. Sixe yeere reigned he in Tirzah.
1 Kings 16:8, 1 Kings 15:21, 2 Chronicles 22:2, 1 Kings 16:29, 1 Kings 16:8
24And he bought the mountaine Samaria of one Shemer for two talents of siluer, and buylt in the mountaine, and called the name of the citie, which he buylt, after the name of Shemer lord of the mountaine, Samaria.
1 Kings 13:32, 1 Kings 13:32, 2 Kings 17:24, 1 Kings 16:32, Acts 8:5
25But Omri did euil in the eyes of the Lord, and did worse then all that were before him.
Micah 6:16, Micah 6:16, 1 Kings 16:33, 1 Kings 14:9, 1 Kings 16:30
26For he walked in all the way of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, and in his sinnes wherewith he made Israel to sinne in prouoking the Lord God of Israel with their vanities.
1 Kings 16:19, 1 Kings 16:19, 1 Kings 16:13, 1 Kings 16:13, Romans 1:21
27And the rest of the actes of Omri, that hee did, and his strength that he shewed, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
1 Kings 16:5, 1 Kings 16:20, 1 Kings 15:31, 1 Kings 16:14, 1 Kings 16:5
28And Omri slept with his fathers, and was buryed in Samaria: and Ahab his sonne reigned in his stead.
29Nowe Ahab the sonne of Omri began to reigne ouer Israel, in the eyght and thirtie yeere of Asa king of Iudah: and Ahab the sonne of Omri reigned ouer Israel in Samaria two and twenty yere.
30And Ahab the sonne of Omri did worse in ye sight of the Lord then al that were before him.
1 Kings 16:25, 1 Kings 16:25, 1 Kings 14:9, 1 Kings 21:25, 1 Kings 14:9
31For was it a light thing for him to walke in the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat, except hee tooke Iezebel also the daughter of Ethbaal King of the Zidonians to wife, and went and serued Baal, and worshipped him?
2 Kings 17:16, 2 Kings 17:16, 2 Kings 10:18, 2 Kings 10:18, Judges 18:7
32Also he reared vp an altar to Baal in the house of Baal, which he had buylt in Samaria.
2 Kings 10:21, 2 Kings 10:21, 2 Kings 10:26, 2 Kings 10:27, 2 Kings 10:26
33And Ahab made a groue, and Ahab proceeded, and did prouoke the Lord God of Israel more then all the kings of Israel that were before him.
2 Kings 13:6, 2 Kings 13:6, 1 Kings 21:25, 1 Kings 21:25, Exodus 34:13
34In his dayes did Hiel the Bethelite buylde Iericho: he layed the foundation thereof in Abiram his eldest sonne, and set vp the gates thereof in his yongest sonne Segub, according to the worde of the Lord which he spake by Ioshua the sonne of Nun.
Joshua 6:26, Joshua 6:26, Joshua 23:14, Joshua 23:15, Matthew 24:35

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