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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

1 Kings 16:1

Then came the word of Yahweh unto Jehu

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,
Bible in Basic English
And the word of the Lord came to Jehu, son of Hanani, protesting against Baasha and 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,
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 Then came the word of Yahweh unto Jehu 2 son of Hanani, against Baasha, saying: Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and gave thee to be leader over my people Israel, - and yet thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and caused, my people Israel, to sin, provoking me to anger with their sins, 3 Behold me! consuming after Baasha, and after his house, - and I will deliver up thy house, like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat: 4 Him that dieth of Baasha in the city, shall, the dogs, eat, and, him that dieth of his in the field, shall, the birds of heaven, eat. 5 Now, the rest of the story 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 So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah, - and, Elah his son, reigned, in his stead. 7 Moreover also, through Jehu son of Hanani the prophet, the word of Yahweh, came against Baasha and against his house, even because of all the wickedness that he had done in the eyes of Yahweh, provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, becoming like the house of Jeroboam, - notwithstanding that he smote him. 8 In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, began Elah son of Baasha to reign over Israel, in Tirzah, and he reigned two years. 9 Then conspired against him his servant Zimri, captain of half the chariots, - as he was in Tirzah drinking himself drunk, in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah. 10 And Zimri went in, and smote him and slew him, in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, - and reigned in his stead.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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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, Sara, remained barren, - she had no child,
Genesis 12:16
and with Abram, dealt he well for her sake, - so that he came to have flocks and herds and he-asses, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-asses and camels.
Genesis 16:2
So then Sarai said unto Abram Behold, I pray thee, Yahweh hath restrained me, from bearing, go in I pray thee unto, my handmaid, peradventure I may be built up from, her, And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
Genesis 16:3
So Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian. her handmaid, at the end of ten years of Abrams dwelling in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband, to be to him as a wife.
Genesis 16:9
And the messenger of Yahweh said to her, Return unto thy lady, - and humble thyself under her hands.
Genesis 16:10
And the messenger of Yahweh said to her, I will, greatly multiply, thy seed - so that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
Genesis 21:12
And God said unto Abraham Let it not be grievous in thine eyes concerning the boy and concerning thy bondwoman, In all that Sarah may say unto thee, hearken to her voice, - For in Isaac, shall there be called to thee - a seed.
Genesis 21:21
And he dwelt in the desert of Paran, - and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
Genesis 25:21
So then Isaac made entreaty unto Yahweh in behalf of his wife, for she was, barren, - and Yahweh suffered himself to be entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
Judges 13:2
And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, and, his name, was Manoah; and, his wife, was barren, and had borne no 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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