Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?] See ( 1 Kings 16:5 ) .
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Zimri totally wiped out the family of Baasha, just as God's word delivered by the prophet Jehu had said
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- wages for the sins of Baasha and his son Elah; not only for their sins but for dragging Israel into their sins and making the God of Israel angry with their stupid idols.
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The rest of Elah's life, what he said and did, is written in The Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
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Zimri was king in Tirzah for all of seven days during the twenty-seventh year of the reign of Asa king of Judah. The Israelite army was on maneuvers near the Philistine town of Gibbethon at the time.
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When they got the report, "Zimri has conspired against the king and killed him," right there in the camp they made Omri, commander of the army, king.
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