28 In the third year of Judah’s King Asa,(A) Baasha killed Nadab(B) and reigned in his place.

29 When Baasha became king, he struck down the entire house of Jeroboam.(C) He did not leave Jeroboam any survivors but[a] destroyed his family according to the word of the Lord He had spoken through His servant Ahijah the Shilonite.(D) 30 This was because Jeroboam had provoked[b] the Lord God of Israel by the sins he had committed and had caused Israel to commit.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 15:29 Lit Jeroboam anyone breathing until
  2. 1 Kings 15:30 Lit provoked in the provocation of

28 Baasha killed him in the third year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place. 29 And it was so, when he became king, that he killed all the house of Jeroboam. He did not leave to Jeroboam anyone that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according to (A)the word of the Lord which He had spoken by His servant Ahijah the Shilonite, 30 (B)because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he had sinned and by which he had made Israel sin, because of his provocation with which he had provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger.

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