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1 Kings 16:6

in 1 Kings 16

And Baasha rested with his fathers and was buried in Tirzah, and his son Elah reigned in his place.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah; and Elah his son reigned in his stead.

KJV

So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in his stead.

This verse in 1 Kings 16

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

and his might, are they not written

on 1 Kings 16:5-7

The closing formula, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel, seals Baasha's reign here and marks a source the author used but did not preserve; the same line closes four reigns before this chapter ends. Verse 7 adds a second charge behind the first: Baasha is judged not only for keeping the calves but for killing Nadab's whole house with his own hand, even though that killing carried out the sentence spoken in chapter 14. The commentators read the addition as a warning to any agent of judgment, that the office does not excuse the manner or the heart it is carried out in.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

So Baasha slept with his fathers,.... Or died, not a violent, but natural, death: and was buried in Tirzah; where was the royal palace of the kings of Israel: and Elah his son reigned in his stead; yet but a short time.

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.

  • וַיִּשְׁכַּ֤בand he lay down

    vaiyishkavH7901212 times

  • בַּעְשָׁא֙Baasha

    ba'sha'H120128 times

  • עִם־with

    ʾim-H59731050 times

  • אֲבֹתָ֔יוancestors his

    ʾavotavH11212 times

  • וַיִּקָּבֵ֖רand he was buried

    vaiyikaverH6912133 times

  • בְּתִרְצָ֑הin Tirzah

    betirtzahH865618 times

  • וַיִּמְלֹ֛ךְand he became king

    vaiyimlokhH4427348 times

  • אֵלָ֥הElah

    ʾelahH42516 times

  • בְנ֖וֹson his

    venoH11214930 times

  • תַּחְתָּֽיו׃in place of him

    tachtavH8478505 times

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

    1 Kings 14:17

    Then Jeroboam’s wife got up and departed for Tirzah, and as soon as she stepped over the threshold of the house, the boy died.

    it leads to

    • Song of Solomon 6:4

      You are as beautiful, my darling, as Tirzah, as lovely as Jerusalem, as majestic as troops with banners.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 1 Kings 15:33

      In the third year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Baasha son of Ahijah became king of all Israel, and he reigned in Tirzah twenty-four years.

    • 1 Kings 16:23

      In the thirty-first year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Omri became king of Israel, and he reigned twelve years, six of them in Tirzah.

    • 1 Kings 16:15

      In the twenty-seventh year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Zimri reigned in Tirzah for seven days. Now the troops were encamped against Gibbethon of the Philistines,

    • 1 Kings 15:21

      When Baasha learned of this, he stopped fortifying Ramah and withdrew to Tirzah.

  • Through

    1 Kings 15:21

    When Baasha learned of this, he stopped fortifying Ramah and withdrew to Tirzah.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 14:17

      Then Jeroboam’s wife got up and departed for Tirzah, and as soon as she stepped over the threshold of the house, the boy died.

    • 1 Kings 16:15–18

      In the twenty-seventh year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Zimri reigned in Tirzah for seven days. Now the troops were encamped against Gibbethon of the Philistines,

  • Through

    1 Kings 15:25

    In the second year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Nadab son of Jeroboam became king of Israel, and he reigned two years.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 14:20

      And the length of Jeroboam’s reign was twenty-two years, and he rested with his fathers, and his son Nadab reigned in his place.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Kings

The Judgment of Solomon, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Judgment of Solomon, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.