World English Bible
1 Kings 16:6
“Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah; and Elah his son reigned in his place.”
1 Kings 16:6 in the King James Version
So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in his stead.Read 1 Kings 16:6 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — 1 Kings 16
The dogs will eat Baasha's descendants who die in the city; and he who dies of his in the field the birds of the sky will eat.
Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah; and Elah his son reigned in his place.
Moreover by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of Yahweh against Baasha, and against his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he struck him.
In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, and reigned two years.
Cross references for 1 Kings 16:6
- 1 Kings 14:17
Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah. As she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.
- 1 Kings 15:21
It happened, when Baasha heard of it, that he left off building Ramah, and lived in Tirzah.
- 1 Kings 16:13-14
for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned, and with which they made Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities. Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, ...
- 1 Kings 16:8
In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, and reigned two years.
- 1 Kings 14:20
The days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.
- 1 Kings 15:25
Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah; and he reigned over Israel two years.
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