In the third year of Judah’s King Asa, Baasha son of Ahijah became king over all Israel, and he reigned in Tirzah for twenty-four years.
1 Kings 16:1 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Now the word of the Lord came to Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha: Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition AND THE word of the Lord came to Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha, saying, American Standard Version (1901) And the word of Jehovah came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying, Common English Bible The LORD’s word came to Jehu, Hanani’s son, against Baasha: Catholic Public Domain Version Then the word of the Lord came to Jehu, the son of Hanani, against Baasha, saying: Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Then the word of the Lord came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasa, saying: |
In the third year of Judah’s King Asa, Baasha son of Ahijah became king over all Israel, and he reigned in Tirzah for twenty-four years.
But through the prophet Jehu son of Hanani the word of the Lord also had come against Baasha and against his house because of all the evil he had done in the Lord’s sight. His actions angered the Lord, and Baasha’s house became like the house of Jeroboam, because he had struck it down.
Still, the Lord warned Israel and Judah through every prophet and every seer, saying, ‘Turn from your evil ways and keep my commands and statutes according to the whole law I commanded your ancestors and sent to you through my servants the prophets.’
Then Jehu son of the seer Hanani went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, ‘Do you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Because of this, the Lord’s wrath is on you.
The rest of the events of Jehoshaphat’s reign from beginning to end are written in the Events of Jehu son of Hanani, which is recorded in the Book of Israel’s Kings.
You show faithful love to thousands but lay the fathers’ iniquity on their sons’ laps after them, great and mighty God whose name is the Lord of Armies,