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Complete Jewish Bible

1 Kings 16:1

The word of Adonai came to Yehu the son of Hanani against Ba‘sha:

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:
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,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then came the word of Yahweh unto Jehu
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 The word of Adonai came to Yehu the son of Hanani against Ba‘sha: 2 "I raised you up out of the dust and made you prince over my people Isra'el. But you have lived in the same way as Yarov‘am and caused my people Isra'el to sin, so that their sinning has made me angry. 3 Therefore I will sweep away Ba‘sha and his house completely; I will make your house like the house of Yarov‘am the son of N'vat. 4 If someone from the line of Ba‘sha dies in the city, the dogs will eat him; if he dies in the countryside, the vultures will eat him." 5 Other activities of Ba‘sha, his accomplishments and his power are recorded in the Annals of the Kings of Isra'el. 6 Ba‘sha slept with his ancestors, and Elah his son became king in his place. 7 Through the prophet Yehu the son of Hanani the word of Adonai was proclaimed against Ba‘sha and his house both because he did so much evil from Adonai 's perspective, angering him with his actions and becoming like the house of Yarov‘am, and because he killed [Nadav]. 8 It was in the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Y'hudah that Elah the son of Ba‘sha began his reign over all Isra'el in Tirtzah, and he ruled for two years. 9 His servant Zimri, commander of half of his chariots, plotted against him. Finally, one time when Elah was in Tirtzah, drinking himself senseless in the house of Artza, administrator of the palace in Tirtzah, 10 Zimri entered, struck him down and killed him. This was in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Y'hudah; Zimri then took Elah's place as king.

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
Sarai was barren — she had no child.
Genesis 12:16
He treated Avram well for her sake, giving him sheep, cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female slaves, and camels.
Genesis 16:2
so Sarai said to Avram, "Here now, Adonai has kept me from having children; so go in and sleep with my slave-girl. Maybe I'll be able to have children through her." Avram listened to what Sarai said.
Genesis 16:3
It was after Avram had lived ten years in the land of Kena‘an that Sarai Avram's wife took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave-girl, and gave her to Avram her husband to be his wife.
Genesis 16:9
The angel of Adonai said to her, "Go back to your mistress, and submit to her authority."
Genesis 16:10
The angel of Adonai said to her, "I will greatly increase your descendants; there will be so many that it will be impossible to count them."
Genesis 21:12
But God said to Avraham, "Don't be distressed because of the boy and your slave-girl. Listen to everything Sarah says to you, because it is your descendants through Yitz'chak who will be counted.
Genesis 21:21
He lived in the Pa'ran Desert, and his mother chose a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
Genesis 25:21
Yitz'chak prayed to Adonai on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. Adonai heeded his prayer, and Rivkah became pregnant.
Judges 13:2
There was a man from Tzor‘ah from the family of Dan, whose name was Manoach; his wife was barren, childless.

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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