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Now the word of the LORD came to ^(C1)Jehu the son of ^(C2)Hanani against Baasha, saying,

"Since I ^(C1)exalted you from the dust and made you leader over My people Israel, and ^(C2)you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have misled My people Israel into sin, provoking Me to anger with their sins,

behold, ^(C1)I am going to ^(F1)burn ^(C2)Baasha and his house, and ^(C3)I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

"^(C1)Anyone belonging to Baasha who dies in the city, the dogs will eat; and anyone belonging to him who dies in the field, the birds of the sky will eat."

^(C1)Now as for 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?

And Baasha ^(F1)lay down with his fathers and was buried in ^(C1)Tirzah, and his son Elah became king in his place.

Moreover, the word of the LORD through ^(C1)the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came against Baasha and his household, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger with ^(C2)the work of his hands, by being like the house of Jeroboam, and because ^(C3)he struck ^(F1)it.