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11 It happened that as soon as he became king, at the moment he sat on his throne, he killed all of the house of Baasha. He left no males[a] among his kindred or any of his friends.

12 So Zimri destroyed all of the house of Baasha according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke against Baasha by the hand of Jehu the prophet 13 because of all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son which they committed and which they caused Israel to sin by provoking Yahweh the God of Israel with their idols.

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  1. 1 Kings 16:11 Literally “no one for him who urinated against a wall”