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And his servant ^(C1)Zimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now ^(F1)Elah was in Tirzah drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, ^(C2)who was in charge of the household in Tirzah.

Then Zimri came in and struck him and put him to death in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and he became king in his place.

And when he became king, as soon as he sat on his throne, ^(C1)he ^(F1)killed all the household of Baasha; he did not leave ^(F2)a single male alive, either of his ^(F3)relatives or of his friends.

So Zimri eliminated all the household of Baasha, ^(C1)in accordance with the word of the LORD which He spoke against Baasha through ^(C2)Jehu the prophet,

for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of his son Elah, which they ^(F1)committed and into which they misled Israel, ^(C1)provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their ^(F2)idols.

^(C1)Now as for 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?