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First Book of Kings, Chapter 16

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1 Kings 16 NASB - New American Standard Bible1 Kings 16 NASB - New American Standard Bible

Chapter 16 of 1 Kings—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

  1. ¶ Now the word of the LORD came to 1Jehu the son of 2Hanani against Baasha, saying,
  2. “Inasmuch as I 3exalted you from the dust and made you leader over My people Israel, and 4you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made My people Israel sin, provoking Me to anger with their sins,
  3. behold, 5I will consume 6Baasha and his house, and 7I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
  4. 8Anyone of Baasha who dies in the city the dogs will eat, and anyone of his who dies in the field the birds of the heavens will eat.”
  5. 9Now 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?
  6. ¶ And Baasha slept with his fathers and was buried in 10Tirzah, and Elah his son became king in his place.
  7. Moreover, the word of the LORD through 11the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani also came against Baasha and his household, both because of all the evil which he did in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger with 12the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because 13he struck [a]it.
  8. ¶ In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha became king over Israel at Tirzah, and reigned two years.
  9. His servant 14Zimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was at Tirzah drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, 15who was over the household at Tirzah.
  10. Then Zimri went in and struck him and put him to death in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and became king in his place.
  11. It came about when he became king, as soon as he sat on his throne, that 16he [b]killed all the household of Baasha; he did not leave [c]a single male, neither of his [d]relatives nor of his friends.
  12. ¶ Thus Zimri destroyed all the household of Baasha, 17according to the word of the LORD, which He spoke against Baasha through 18Jehu the prophet,
  13. for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and which they made Israel sin, 19provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their [e]idols.
  14. 20Now the rest of the acts of Elah and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
  15. ¶ In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days at Tirzah. Now the people were camped against 21Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.
  16. The people who were camped heard [f]it said, “Zimri has conspired and has also struck down the king.” Therefore all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp.
  17. Then Omri and all Israel with him went up from Gibbethon and besieged Tirzah.
  18. When Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the citadel of the king’s house and burned the king’s house over him with fire, and 22died,
  19. because of his sins which he sinned, doing evil in the sight of the LORD, 23walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, making Israel sin.
  20. 24Now the rest of the acts of Zimri and his conspiracy which he [g]carried out, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
  21. ¶ Then the people of Israel were divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; the other half followed Omri.
  22. But the people who followed Omri prevailed over the people who followed Tibni the son of Ginath. And Tibni died and Omri became king.
  23. In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri became king over Israel and reigned twelve years; he reigned six years at 25Tirzah.
  24. He bought the hill [h]Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver; and he built on the hill, and named the city which he built [i]26Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.
  25. 27Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD, and 28acted more wickedly than all who were before him.
  26. For he 29walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat and in his sins which he made Israel sin, provoking the LORD God of Israel with their [j]idols.
  27. Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did and his might which he [k]showed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
  28. So Omri slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria; and Ahab his son became king in his place.
  29. ¶ Now Ahab the son of Omri became king over Israel in the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.
  30. Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD 30more than all who were before him.
  31. ¶ It came about, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that 31he married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the 32Sidonians, and went to serve Baal and worshiped him.
  32. So he erected an altar for Baal in 33the house of Baal which he built in Samaria.
  33. Ahab also made 34the [l]Asherah. Thus 35Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
  34. 36In his days Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho; he laid its foundations with the loss of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates with the loss of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which He spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Or him
  2. ^ Lit smote
  3. ^ Lit him who urinates against the wall
  4. ^ Lit redeemers
  5. ^ Lit vanities
  6. ^ Lit saying
  7. ^ Lit conspired
  8. ^ Heb Shomeron
  9. ^ Heb Shomeron
  10. ^ Lit vanities
  11. ^ Lit did
  12. ^ I.e. wooden symbol of a female deity

REFERENCES

  1. ^ 1Ki 16:7; 2Ch 19:2; 20:34
  2. ^ 2Ch 16:7-10
  3. ^ 1Sa 2:8; 1Ki 14:7
  4. ^ 1Ki 15:34
  5. ^ 1Ki 14:10; 21:21
  6. ^ 1Ki 16:11
  7. ^ 1Ki 15:29
  8. ^ 1Ki 14:11; 21:24
  9. ^ 1Ki 14:19; 15:31
  10. ^ 1Ki 14:17; 15:21
  11. ^ 1Ki 16:1
  12. ^ Ps 115:4; Is 2:8
  13. ^ 1Ki 14:14; 15:27, 29
  14. ^ 2Ki 9:30-33
  15. ^ Ge 24:2; 39:4; 1Ki 18:3
  16. ^ 1Ki 15:29; 16:3
  17. ^ 1Ki 16:3
  18. ^ 2Ch 19:2; 20:34
  19. ^ De 32:21; 1Ki 15:30
  20. ^ 1Ki 16:5
  21. ^ 1Ki 15:27
  22. ^ 1Sa 31:4, 5; 2Sa 17:23
  23. ^ 1Ki 12:28; 14:16; 15:26
  24. ^ 1Ki 16:5, 14, 27
  25. ^ 1Ki 15:21
  26. ^ 1Ki 16:28, 29, 32
  27. ^ Mc 6:16
  28. ^ 1Ki 14:9; 16:30-33
  29. ^ 1Ki 16:19
  30. ^ 1Ki 14:9; 16:25
  31. ^ De 7:1-5
  32. ^ Jg 18:7; 1Ki 11:1-5; 2Ki 10:18; 17:16
  33. ^ 2Ki 10:21, 26, 27
  34. ^ 2Ki 13:6
  35. ^ 1Ki 14:9; 16:29, 30; 21:25
  36. ^ Jos 6:26

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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