1 Kings 16:2
Verse 2 of 34. The 16th of 22 chapters in 1 Kings, in History.
1Then the word of the Lord came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
2Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee prince over my people Israel; and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;
3Behold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the posterity of his house; and will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
4Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat.
5Now 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?
6So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in his stead.
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Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 16:2
He reminds Baasha of the great things God had done for him (v. 2): I exalted thee out of the dust to the throne of glory, a great instance of the divine sovereignty and power, 1 Sam. ii. 8. Baasha seemed to have raised himself by his own treachery and cruelty, yet there was a hand of Providence in it, to bring about God's counsel, concerning Jeroboam's house; and God's owning his advancement as his act and deed does by…
Read Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 16:1–14: Ruin of Baasha's Family Foretold. (b. c. 931.)
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