Thematic Bible: Extinction of baasha's house


Thematic Bible



I lifted you out of the dust and made you ruler over my people Israel. You have gone the way of Jeroboam. You made my people Israel do evil, moving me to wrath by their sins. Truly, I will take away the family of Baasha. I will make your family like the family of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat.

His servant Zimri, commander of half his war-carriages made plans to kill him. He was in Tirzah, drinking hard at the house of Arza, controller of the king's house in Tirzah. Zimri attacked and killed him. It was the twenty-seventh year that Asa was king of Judah. Immediately after he became king and took his place on the throne of the kingdom, he put to death all the family of Baasha. Not one male child survived. read more.
So Zimri destroyed the entire family of Baasha as Jehovah promised through the prophet Jehu. This happened because of the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, and because of all the sins they led Israel to commit. It aroused the anger of Jehovah the God of Israel.