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1 Kings 16:1

And the word of the Lord came to Jehu, son of Hanani, protesting against Baasha and saying,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Baasha;   Government;   Hanani;   Ingratitude;   Jehu;   Promotion;   Thompson Chain Reference - Jehu;   Magistrates;   Nation, the;   Rebuke;   Rulers;   Wicked, the;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prophets;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Hanani;   Jehu;   Zimri;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Baasha;   Jehu;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Baasha;   Hanani;   Samaria;   Zimri;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Jehu;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hanani;   Jehu;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Baasha ;   Hanani ;   Jehu ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Nimshi;   Samaria;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Baasha;   Jehu;   Kings;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Hana'ni;   Je'hu;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Baasha;   Chronicles, Books of;   Hanani;   Prophecy;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Now the word of the Lord came to Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha:
Hebrew Names Version
The word of the LORD came to Yehu the son of Hanani against Ba`sha, saying,
King James Version
Then the word of the Lord came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
English Standard Version
And the word of the Lord came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
New Century Version
Jehu son of Hanani spoke the word of the Lord against King Baasha.
New English Translation
Jehu son of Hanani received from the Lord this message predicting Baasha's downfall:
Amplified Bible
Now the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
New American Standard Bible
Now the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then the word of the Lord came to Iehu the sonne of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
Legacy Standard Bible
Now the word of Yahweh came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
Contemporary English Version
The Lord sent Jehu son of Hanani to say to Baasha:
Complete Jewish Bible
The word of Adonai came to Yehu the son of Hanani against Ba‘sha:
Darby Translation
And the word of Jehovah came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
Easy-to-Read Version
Then the Lord spoke against King Baasha through the prophet, Jehu son of Hanani. He said,
George Lamsa Translation
THEN the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanan against Baasha, saying,
Good News Translation
The Lord spoke to the prophet Jehu son of Hanani and gave him this message for Baasha:
Lexham English Bible
The word of Yahweh came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
Literal Translation
And the Word of Jehovah came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Neuertheles the worde of the LORDE came vnto Iehu the sonne of Hanani agaynst Baesa, and sayde:
American Standard Version
And the word of Jehovah came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then the worde of the Lorde came to Iehu the sonne of Hanani against Baasa, saying:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasa, saying:
King James Version (1611)
Then the word of the Lord came to Iehu the sonne of Hanani, against Baasha, saying,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the word of the Lord came by the hand of Ju son of Anani to Baasa, saying,
English Revised Version
And the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
Berean Standard Bible
Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha, saying:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe the word of the Lord was maad to Hieu, sone of Anany, ayens Baasa, and seide,
Young's Literal Translation
And a word of Jehovah is unto Jehu son of Hanani, against Baasha, saying,
Update Bible Version
And the word of Yahweh came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
Webster's Bible Translation
Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
World English Bible
The word of Yahweh came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
New King James Version
Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani, against Baasha, saying:
New Living Translation
This message from the Lord was delivered to King Baasha by the prophet Jehu son of Hanani:
New Life Bible
Now the word of the Lord came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
New Revised Standard
The word of the Lord came to Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then came the word of Yahweh unto Jehu
Douay-Rheims Bible
Then the word of the Lord came to Jehu, the son of Hanani, against Baasa, saying:
Revised Standard Version
And the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hana'ni against Ba'asha, saying,
THE MESSAGE
The word of God came to Jehu son of Hanani with this message for Baasha: "I took you from nothing—a complete nobody—and set you up as the leader of my people Israel, but you plodded along in the rut of Jeroboam, making my people Israel sin and making me seethe over their sin. And now the consequences—I will burn Baasha and his regime to cinders, the identical fate of Jeroboam son of Nebat. Baasha's people who die in the city will be eaten by scavenger dogs; carrion crows will eat the ones who die in the country."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,

Contextual Overview

1 And the word of the Lord came to Jehu, son of Hanani, protesting against Baasha and saying, 2 Because I took you up out of the dust, and made you ruler over my people Israel; and you have gone in the ways of Jeroboam, and made my people Israel do evil, moving me to wrath by their sins; 3 Truly, I will see that Baasha and all his family are completely brushed away; I will make your family like the family of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat. 4 Anyone of the family of Baasha who comes to death in the town, will become food for the dogs; and he to whom death comes in the open country, will be food for the birds of the air. 5 Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his power, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel? 6 And Baasha went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth at Tirzah; and Elah his son became king in his place. 7 And the Lord sent his word against Baasha and his family by the mouth of the prophet Jehu, the son of Hanani, because of all the evil he did in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath by the work of his hands, because he was like the family of Jeroboam, and because he put it to death. 8 In the twenty-sixth year that Asa was king of Judah, Elah, the son of Baasha, became king of Israel in Tirzah, and he was king for two years. 9 And his servant Zimri, captain of half his war-carriages, made secret designs against him: now he was in Tirzah, drinking hard in the house of Arza, controller of the king's house in Tirzah. 10 And Zimri went in and made an attack on him and put him to death, in the twenty-seventh year that Asa was king of Judah, and made himself king in his place.

Bible Verse Review
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Jehu: 1 Kings 16:7, 2 Chronicles 19:2, 2 Chronicles 20:34

Hanani: 1 Kings 15:33, 2 Chronicles 16:7-10

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 16:12 - according Jeremiah 32:18 - recompensest

Cross-References

Genesis 11:30
And Sarai had no child.
Genesis 12:16
And because of her, he was good to Abram, and he had sheep and oxen and asses, and men-servants and women-servants, and camels.
Genesis 16:2
And Sarai said to Abram, See, the Lord has not let me have children; go in to my servant, for I may get a family through her. And Abram did as Sarai said.
Genesis 16:3
So after Abram had been living for ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai took Hagar, her Egyptian servant, and gave her to Abram for his wife.
Genesis 16:9
And the angel said to her, Go back, and put yourself under her authority.
Genesis 16:10
And the angel of the Lord said, Your seed will be greatly increased so that it may not be numbered.
Genesis 21:12
But God said, Let it not be a grief to you because of the boy and Hagar his mother; give ear to whatever Sarah says to you, because it is from Isaac that your seed will take its name.
Genesis 21:21
And while he was in the waste land of Paran, his mother got him a wife from the land of Egypt.
Genesis 25:21
Isaac made prayer to the Lord for his wife because she had no children; and the Lord gave ear to his prayer, and Rebekah became with child.
Judges 13:2
Now there was a certain man of Zorah of the family of the Danites, and his name was Manoah; and his wife had never given birth to a child.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then the word of the Lord came to Jehu the son of Hanani,.... The seer that reproved Asa, 2 Chronicles 16:7, so that this man was the son of a prophet then living, and was a young man; for we hear of him several years after reproving Jehoshaphat, 2 Chronicles 19:2, and as a writer of history, 2 Chronicles 20:34, the prophecy that came to him from the Lord was

against Baasha; king of Israel:

saying; as follows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hanani, the father of Jehu, was seer to Asa in the kingdom of Judah 2 Chronicles 16:7-10. His son Jehu, who here discharges the same office in the kingdom of Israel, appears at a later date as an inhabitant of Jerusalem where he prophesied under Jehoshaphat, whom he rebuked on one occasion. He must have lived to a great age, for he outlived Jehoshaphat, and wrote his life (marginal references).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XVI

Jehu the prophet denounces the destruction of Baasha,1-7.

Zimri conspires against him, and slays him and his family, and

reigns seven days, 8-15.

The people make Omri king, and besiege Zimri in Tirzah; who,

finding no way to escape, sets fire to his palace, and consumes

himself in it, 16-20.

The people are divided, half following Tibni, and half Omri;

the latter faction overcomes the former, Tibni is slain, and

Omri reigns alone, 21-23.

He founds Samaria, 24.

His bad character and death, 25-28.

Ahab reigns in his stead; marries Jezebel, restores idolatry,

and exceeds his predecessors in wickedness, 29-33.

Hiel the Beth-elite rebuilds Jericho, 34.

NOTES ON CHAP. XVI

Verse 1 Kings 16:1. Then the word of the Lord came to Jehu — Of this prophet we know nothing but from this circumstance. It appears from 2 Chronicles 16:7-10, that his father Hanani was also a prophet, and suffered imprisonment in consequence of the faithful discharge of his ministry to Asa.


 
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