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And there was war between Asa and Baasha, king of Israel, all their days.
And Baasha, king of Israel, went up against Judah and built Ramah to prevent anyone from coming to Asa, king of Judah.
"There is a covenant between me and you, and between my father and your father. See, I have sent you gifts of silver and gold. Go and break your covenant with Baasha, king of Israel, so that he will leave me alone."
And it came to pass, when
Baasha heard of it, that he left the building of Ramah and dwelt in
Tirtsah [northeast of Shechem; present-day Tell el-Farah].
[Tirtsah soon becomes the capital of the Northern Kingdom, see .]And King Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah, no one was exempt, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timber with which Baasha had built, and King Asa built Geva in Benjamin with it and Mizpah.
And Baasha, the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him, and Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon, which belongs to the Philistines, for Nadab and all Israel were besieging Gibbethon.
And in the third year of Asa, king of Judah, Baasha slew him (Nadab) and reigned in his stead.
And there was war between Asa and Baasha, king of Israel, all their days.
[The third king of Israel (the northern kingdom) – Baasha (909-886 BC). His story is found in .] In the third year of Asa's reign in Judah,
Baasha, the son of Ahijah, began to reign over all Israel in
Tirtsah [northeast of Shechem; present-day Tell el-Farah] and reigned for 24 years.
And the word of the Lord (Yahweh) came to Jehu, the son of Hanani, concerning Baasha, saying
behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat.
Whoever of Baasha's dies in the city, the dogs shall eat, and whoever of him dies in the field, the birds of the air shall eat."
The rest of the acts of Baasha, what he did, and his might, are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. [In the same way that the chronicles of previous kings are written down, see .]
And
Baasha slept with his fathers, and he was buried in
Tirtsah [the capital of the Northern Kingdom, northeast of Shechem], and Elah his son reigned in his place.
And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu, the son of Hanani, the word of the Lord (Yahweh) came against Baasha and against his house, for all the evil that he did in the sight of the Lord (Yahweh), to provoke him to anger with the work of his hands, in following the ways of the house of Jeroboam, and because he struck him down.
[Fourth king of Israel (the Northern Kingdom) – Elah (886-885 BC)]
In the 26th year of Asa's reign over Judah, Elah, son of Baasha, began to reign over Israel in Tirzah [capital of the Northern Kingdom, northeast of Shechem], and he reigned for two years.
[Zimri was the fifth king of the Northern Kingdom (reigned 885 BC)]
And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he smote all the house of Baasha. He left not one who urinates against the wall [a derogatory expression for a man; in the expression he is also likened to an unclean dog], none of his relatives (someone who could become a redeemer – Hebr. goel) and none of his friends.
And Zimri destroyed the entire house of Baasha, in accordance with the word of the Lord (Yahweh) which he had spoken against Baasha through the prophet Jehu,
for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of his son Elah, which he sinned and caused Israel to sin and provoke the Lord (Yahweh), the God (Elohim) of Israel, with their vanity (emptiness – Hebr. hevel) [idolatry].
And I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam, son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha, son of Ahijah, for the evil you have done in provoking me and causing Israel to sin.
And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha, the son of Ahijah.
In the 36th year of Asa's reign, Basha, king of Israel, went up against Judah and began to fortify Ramah [just over a mile north of Jerusalem] to prevent anyone from coming to or from Asa, king of Judah.
"Let us make a treaty, you and I, as there was between my father and your father. Here I am sending you silver and gold. Therefore, break your treaty with Baasha, king of Israel, so that he will leave me alone."
When Baasha heard this, he stopped fortifying Ramah and abandoned his work there.
But King Asa took all Judah with him, and they carried away from Ramah the stones and timber that Baasha had used to fortify Ramah. With these, Asa fortified Geba and Mizpah.
And the cistern (well) into which Ishmael threw all the dead bodies of the men he had killed beside Gedaliah was the one that King Asa had made out of fear of Baasha, king of Israel. Ishmael, the son of Netanyahu, filled it with those who had been killed.
