1 Toe het die woord van die HERE gekom tot Jehu, die seun van Han ni, teen Ba,sa, en gesê:
2 Omdat Ek jou uit die stof opgehef en jou as 'n vors oor my volk Israel aangestel het, maar jy in die weg van Jerobeam gewandel en my volk Israel laat sondig het, om My te terg deur hulle sondes,
3 daarom sal Ek Ba,sa en sy huis skoon wegvee, en Ek sal jou huis maak soos die huis van Jerobeam, die seun van Nebat.
4 Die een wat van Ba,sa in die stad sterwe, hom sal die honde eet, en wie van hom in die veld sterwe, sal die voëls van die hemel eet.
5 En die verdere geskiedenis van Ba,sa en wat hy gedoen het, en sy magtige dade, is dit nie beskrywe in die Kroniekboek van die konings van Israel nie?
6 En Ba,sa het ontslaap met sy vaders, en hy is begrawe in Tirsa; en sy seun Ela het in sy plek koning geword.
7 Ook het die woord van die HERE deur die diens van Jehu, die seun van Han ni, die profeet, gekom teen Ba,sa en teen sy huis, nie alleen oor al die kwaad wat hy in die oë van die HERE gedoen het, deur Hom te terg met sy handewerk om soos die huis van Jerobeam te wees nie, maar ook omdat hy hom verslaan het.
8 In die ses en twintigste jaar van Asa, die koning van Juda, het Ela, die seun van Ba,sa, oor Israel koning geword in Tirsa, twee jaar lank.
9 Maar sy dienaar Simri, die owerste oor die helfte van die strydwaens, het 'n sameswering teen hom gesmee: terwyl hy hom dronk gedrink het in Tirsa, in die huis van Arsa, wat oor die paleis in Tirsa was,
10 het Simri ingekom en hom verslaan en hom gedood in die sewe en twintigste jaar van Asa, die koning van Juda, en hy het in sy plek koning geword.
11 En toe hy koning was, terwyl hy op die troon sit, het hy die hele huis van Ba,sa verwoes; hy het vir hom niemand laat oorbly wat manlik is nie, ook nie sy bloedwrekers en vriende nie.
12 So het Simri dan die hele huis van Ba,sa verdelg volgens die woord van die HERE wat Hy gespreek het oor Ba,sa deur die diens van die profeet Jehu,
13 vanweë al die sondes van Ba,sa en die sondes van sy seun Ela wat hulle gedoen het en waarmee hulle Israel laat sondig het, om die HERE, die God van Israel, te terg met hulle nietige afgode.
14 En die verdere geskiedenis van Ela en alles wat hy gedoen het, is dit nie beskrywe in die Kroniekboek van die konings van Israel nie?
15 In die sewe en twintigste jaar van Asa, die koning van Juda, was Simri sewe dae lank koning in Tirsa, terwyl die manskappe G¡bbeton beleër wat aan die Filistyne behoort het.
16 En toe die manskappe wat beleër, hoor sê: Simri het 'n sameswering gesmee en ook die koning doodgeslaan, het die hele Israel Omri, die leërowerste, koning gemaak oor Israel, dieselfde dag in die laer.
17 En Omri het opgetrek en die hele Israel saam met hom van G¡bbeton af en Tirsa beleër.
18 Net toe Simri sien dat die stad ingeneem is, het hy in die vesting van die koning se huis ingegaan en die huis van die koning bo-op hom aan die brand gesteek, sodat hy gesterf het,
19 vanweë sy sondes wat hy begaan het deur te doen wat verkeerd was in die oë van die HERE, deur te wandel in die weg van Jerobeam en in sy sonde wat hy gedoen het om Israel te laat sondig.
20 En die verdere geskiedenis van Simri en sy sameswering wat hy gesmee het, is dit nie beskrywe in die Kroniekboek van die konings van Israel nie?
21 Toe is die volk van Israel verdeel in twee helftes: een helfte van die volk het Tibni, die seun van Ginat, gevolg om hom koning te maak, en die ander helfte het Omri gevolg.
22 Maar die volk wat Omri gevolg het, was te sterk vir die volk wat Tibni, die seun van Ginat, gevolg het; en Tibni het gesterwe, en Omri het koning geword.
23 In die een en dertigste jaar van Asa, die koning van Juda, het Omri oor Israel koning geword, twaalf jaar lank; in Tirsa was hy ses jaar koning.
24 En hy het die berg Samar¡a van Semer gekoop vir twee talente silwer en die berg bebou en die stad wat hy gebou het, Samar¡a genoem na die naam van Semer, die eienaar van die berg.
25 En Omri het gedoen wat verkeerd was in die oë van die HERE, en meer kwaad gedoen as al sy voorgangers.
26 Hy het naamlik gewandel in al die weë van Jerobeam, die seun van Nebat, en in sy sondes waarmee hy Israel laat sondig het, om die HERE, die God van Israel, te terg met hulle nietige afgode.
27 En die verdere geskiedenis van Omri, wat hy gedoen het, en sy magtige dade wat hy verrig het, is dit nie beskrywe in die Kroniekboek van die konings van Israel nie?
28 En Omri het ontslaap met sy vaders en is in Samar¡a begrawe; en sy seun Agab het in sy plek koning geword.
29 En Agab, die seun van Omri, het oor Israel koning geword in die agt en dertigste jaar van Asa, die koning van Juda; en Agab, die seun van Omri, het in Samar¡a oor Israel twee en twintig jaar geregeer.
30 En Agab, die seun van Omri, het gedoen wat kwaad is in die oë van die HERE, meer as al sy voorgangers.
31 En dit was nog die minste dat hy in die sondes van Jerobeam, die seun van Nebat, gewandel het: hy het Is,bel, die dogter van Et-Ba„l, die koning van die Sidoniërs, as vrou geneem, en Ba„l gaan dien en voor hom neergebuig,
32 en vir Ba„l 'n altaar opgerig in die huis van Ba„l wat hy in Samar¡a gebou het.
33 Ook het Agab die heilige boomstam gemaak, en Agab het nog meer gedoen om die HERE, die God van Israel, te terg as al die konings van Israel, sy voorgangers.
34 In sy dae het Hiël, van Bet-el, J,rigo opgebou; ten koste van Ab¡ram, sy eersgeborene, het hy sy fondament gelê, en ten koste van Segub, sy jongste, sy poorte opgerig, volgens die woord van die HERE wat Hy deur die diens van Josua, die seun van Nun, gespreek het.
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.
11 And straight away when he became king and took his place on the seat of the kingdom, he put to death all the family of Baasha: not one male child of his relations or his friends kept his life.
12 So Zimri put to death all the family of Baasha, so that the word which the Lord said against him by the mouth of Jehu the prophet came about;
13 Because of all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they did and made Israel do, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath by their foolish acts.
14 Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?
15 In the twenty-seventh year of Asa, king of Judah, Zimri was king for seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were attacking Gibbethon in the land of the Philistines.
16 And news came to the people in the tents that Zimri had made a secret design and had put the king to death: so all Israel made Omri, the captain of the army, king that day in the tents.
17 Then Omri went up from Gibbethon, with all the army of Israel, and they made an attack on Tirzah, shutting in the town on every side.
18 And when Zimri saw that the town was taken, he went into the inner room of the king's house, and burning the house over his head, came to his end,
19 Because of his sin in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, in going in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin which he made Israel do.
20 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and the secret design he made, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?
21 Then there was a division among the people of Israel; half the people were for making Tibni, son of Ginath, king, and half were supporting Omri.
22 But the supporters of Omri overcame those who were on the side of Tibni, the son of Ginath; and death came to Tibni and to his brother Joram at that time: and Omri became king in the place of Tibni.
23 In the thirty-first year of Asa, king of Judah, Omri became king over Israel, and he was king for twelve years; for six years he was ruling in Tirzah.
24 He got the hill Samaria from Shemer for the price of two talents of silver, and he made a town there, building it on the hill and naming it Samaria, after Shemer the owner of the hill.
25 And Omri did evil in the eyes of the Lord, even worse than all those before him,
26 Copying all the evil ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and all the sins he did and made Israel do, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath by their foolish ways.
27 Now the rest of the acts which Omri did, and his great power, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?
28 So Omri went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in Samaria; and Ahab his son became king in his place.
29 In the thirty-eighth year that Asa was king of Judah, Ahab, the son of Omri, became king over Israel; and Ahab was king in Samaria for twenty-two years.
30 And Ahab, the son of Omri, did evil in the eyes of the Lord, even worse than all who went before him.
31 And as if copying the evil ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, was a small thing for him, he took as his wife Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of Zidon, and became a servant and worshipper of Baal.
32 And he put up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal which he had made in Samaria.
33 And Ahab made an image of Asherah and did more than all the kings of Israel before him to make the Lord, the God of Israel, angry.
34 In his days Hiel made Jericho; he put its base in position at the price of Abiram, his oldest son, and he put its doors in place at the price of his youngest son Segub; even as the Lord had said by Joshua, the son of Nun.