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1 Kings 16:1

in 1 Kings 16

Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha, saying:

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And the word of Jehovah came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,

KJV

Then the word of the Lord came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,

This verse in 1 Kings 16

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Ephrem the Syrian

ON THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS 16:1 · Written before 373.

[Baasha] was appointed king by God and was sent to restore the true religion which had been destroyed by Jeroboam and his successor Nadab, and to take revenge on the evil that was committed as well as impiety. He was certainly able to accomplish in …

This site's exposition

against Baasha, saying

on 1 Kings 16:1-2

Jehu's oracle against Baasha reuses, almost word for word, the charge Ahijah brought against Jeroboam at 14:7 through 14:9: exalted out of the dust, made prince, and now made my people to sin. Baasha took the throne by killing every one of Jeroboam's house at 15:29, and the same words that raised him now condemn him for repeating the very sin he was raised up to punish. Kings measures every northern king by his distance from Jeroboam's calves, and Baasha fails his own test.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice
Hanani, the father of Jehu, was seer to Asa in the kingdom of Judah 2Ch 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).

The words behind it

10 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 19:2

    Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, the wrath of…

    it leads to

    • Psalms 139:21–22

      Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD, and detest those who rise against You?

    • 2 John 1:10–11

      If anyone comes to you but does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your home or even greet him.

    • Ephesians 5:11

      Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

    • James 4:4

      You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.

    • 2 Chronicles 18:3

      Ahab king of Israel asked Jehoshaphat king of Judah, “Will you go with me against Ramoth-gilead?” And Jehoshaphat replied, “I am like you, and my people are your people; we will join you in…

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 20:34

    As for the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, from beginning to end, they are indeed written in the Chronicles of Jehu son of Hanani, which are recorded in the Book of the Kings…

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 19:2

      Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, the wrath of…

  • Through

    1 Kings 16:7

    Moreover, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha and his house, because of all the evil he had done in the sight of the LORD, provoking…

    it leads to

    • Psalms 115:4

      Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.

    • Isaiah 2:8

      Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Kings

The Judgment of Solomon — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Judgment of Solomon — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Ephrem the Syrian, ON THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS 16:1; Keil, The Books of the Kings and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.