Thus saith YY , Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the Throne of David, and ruling any more in Yhudah.
For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
YY will not spare him, but then the anger of YY and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and YY shall blot out his name from under heaven.
Therefore it shall be, when YY thy Elohim hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which YY thy Elohim giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.
Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.
And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his Throne, that he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not one that pisseth against a wall, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends.