Bible Compass
Log inGet started
Back to the chapter

1 Kings 16:11

Baasha

9 However, while Elah was in Tirzah getting drunk in the house of Arza the steward of his household there, Elah’s servant Zimri, the commander of half his chariots, conspired against him.

10 So in the twenty-seventh year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Zimri went in, struck Elah down, and killed him. And Zimri reigned in his place.

As soon as Zimri began to reign and was seated on the throne, he struck down the entire household of Baasha. He did not leave a single male, whether a kinsman or friend.

12 So Zimri destroyed the entire household of Baasha, according to the word that the LORD had spoken against Baasha through Jehu the prophet.

13 This happened because of all the sins Baasha and his son Elah had committed and had caused Israel to commit, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger with their worthless idols.

Read the whole chapter

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
As soon as Zimri began to reign and was seated on the throne, he struck down the entire household of Baasha. He did not leave a single male, whether a kinsman or friend.
KJV
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.
WEB
When he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, he attacked all the house of Baasha. He didn’t leave him a single one who urinates on a wall among his relatives or his friends.
ASV
And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he smote all the house of Baasha: he left him not a single man-child, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends.
DARBY
And it came to pass when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not a male, neither of his kinsmen nor of his friends.
BLB
And it came to pass when he began to reign, at his sitting on his throne, [that] he killed all the house of Baasha. He did not leave to him one who urinates against the wall, or of his redeemers, or of his friends.
ÅB
Og da han var blitt konge og satt på sin trone, slo han hele Baesas hus ihjel; han lot ikke en eneste mann av hans slekt bli i live, hverken hans nærmeste frender eller hans venner.
OTB
Da han ble konge, så snart han satte seg på sin trone, slo han ned hele huset til Baesa; han lot ikke en eneste mann bli igjen, verken av hans slektninger eller av hans venner.
B1930
Og da han var blitt konge og satt på sin trone, slo han hele Baesas hus ihjel; han lot ikke en eneste mann av hans ætt bli i live, hverken hans nærmeste frender eller hans venner.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 1 Kings 15:29

    As soon as Baasha became king, he struck down the entire household of Jeroboam. He did not leave to Jeroboam anyone that breathed, but destroyed them all according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servant Ahijah the Shilonite,

    Read in context

  • 1 Kings 16:3

    So now I will consume Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like that of Jeroboam son of Nebat:

    Read in context

  • 1 Samuel 25:22

    May God punish David, and ever so severely, if I let one of Nabal’s men survive until morning.”

    Read in context

  • 1 Samuel 25:34

    Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, then surely no male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by morning light.”

    Read in context

  • Judges 1:7

    Then Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done to them, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.

    Read in context

  • 1 Kings 14:10

    Because of all this, behold, I am bringing disaster on the house of Jeroboam: I will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both slave and free, in Israel; I will burn up the house of Jeroboam as one burns up dung until it is gone!

    Read in context