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1 Kings 16:7

in 1 Kings 16

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 Him to anger with the work of his hands and becoming like the house of Jeroboam, and also because Baasha had struck down the house of Jeroboam.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And moreover by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of Jehovah against Baasha, and against his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he smote him.

KJV

And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of the Lord against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the Lord, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he killed him.

This verse in 1 Kings 16

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Ishodad of Merv

BOOKS OF SESSIONS 1 KINGS 16:7 · Written before 850.

"… In being like the house of Jeroboam, and also because he destroyed it." This does not mean that Elah killed Jeroboam, but that Baasha, father of Elah, killed the son of Jeroboam. And he is not threatened with evils by the prophet because he …

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 Nineteenth Century1 voice
The natural position of this verse would be after 1Ki 16:4 and before 1Ki 16:5. But it may be regarded as added by the writer, somewhat irregularly, as an afterthought; its special force being to point out that the sentence on Baasha was intended to punish, not only his calf-worship, but emphatically his murder of Jeroboam and his family.

The words behind it

30 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.

  • וְגַ֡םand also

    vegamH1571769 times

  • בְּיַד־by [the] hand of

    beyad-H30271618 times

  • יֵה֨וּאJehu

    yehu'H305858 times

  • בֶן־[the] son of

    ven-H11214930 times

  • חֲנָ֜נִיHanani

    chananiH2607

  • הַנָּבִ֗יאthe prophet

    hanavi'H5030314 times

  • דְּבַר־[the] word of

    devar-H16971440 times

  • יְהוָ֡הYahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • הָיָה֩it came

    hayahH19613559 times

  • אֶל־against

    ʾel-H4135510 times

  • בַּעְשָׁ֨אBaasha

    ba'sha'H120128 times

  • וְאֶל־and against

    veel-H4135510 times

  • בֵּית֜וֹhouse his

    beitoH10042046 times

  • וְעַ֥לand on

    vealH59215755 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H36055413 times

  • הָרָעָ֣ה׀the evil

    haraahH7451662 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־which

    ʾasher-H8345497 times

  • עָשָׂ֣ה׀he had done

    ʾasahH62132628 times

  • בְּעֵינֵ֣יin [the] eyes of

    beeineiH5869887 times

  • יְהוָ֗הYahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • לְהַכְעִיסוֹ֙to provoke to anger him

    lehakhisoH370754 times

  • בְּמַעֲשֵׂ֣הby [the] work of

    bemaasehH4639236 times

  • יָדָ֔יוhands his

    yadavH30271618 times

  • לִהְי֖וֹתto be

    lihyotH19613559 times

  • כְּבֵ֣יתlike [the] house of

    keveitH10042046 times

  • יָרָבְעָ֑םJeroboam

    yaraveamH3379104 times

  • וְעַ֥לand on

    vealH59215755 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־that

    ʾasher-H8345497 times

  • הִכָּ֖הhe struck down

    hikahH5221499 times

  • אֹתֽוֹ׃ פ<obj.> it

    ʾotoH85310935 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

    Psalms 115:4

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

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 4:28

      And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.

    • Jeremiah 10:3–5

      For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman.

    • Isaiah 46:6–7

      They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship.

    • Isaiah 40:19–20

      To an idol that a craftsman casts and a metalworker overlays with gold and fits with silver chains?

    • Habakkuk 2:18–20

      What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.

  • Through

    Isaiah 2:8

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

    it leads to

  • Through

    Hosea 1:4

    Then the LORD said to Hosea, “Name him Jezreel, for soon I will bring the bloodshed of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 10:7–8

      And when the letter arrived, they took the sons of the king and slaughtered all seventy of them. They put their heads in baskets and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel.

    • 2 Kings 10:10–11

      Know, then, that not a word the LORD has spoken against the house of Ahab will fail, for the LORD has done what He promised through His servant Elijah.”

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 on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Ishodad of Merv, BOOKS OF SESSIONS 1 KINGS 16:7 and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.