“Since I (A)exalted you out of the dust and made you leader over my people Israel, and (B)you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made my people Israel to sin, provoking me to anger with their sins, behold, I will utterly (C)sweep away (D)Baasha and his house, and I will make your house (E)like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat. (F)Anyone belonging to Baasha who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone of his who dies in the field the birds of the heavens shall eat.”

Now the rest of the acts of Baasha and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? And Baasha slept with his fathers and was buried at (G)Tirzah, and Elah his son reigned in his place.

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