Melachim I 16 מלכים א ט״ז

There was a word of Adonoy to Yeihu, the son of Chanoni, concerning Bashah, saying,

“Since I picked you up from the dust, and appointed you a prince over My people, Yisroel, you followed in the way of Yerovom, and caused My people, Yisroel to sin, and to anger Me with their sins.

Behold, I will destroy Bashah and his house; and I will do to your house as I did to the house of Yerovom ben Novot.

The dead ones of Bashah that died in the city, will be eaten by the dogs; and those of his that are dead in the field, will be eaten by the birds of the sky.”

The rest of the events of Bashah, and what he did and his might, they are recorded in the Book of Chronicles of the kings of Yisroel.

And Bashah slept with his fathers, and he was buried in Tirtzah. His son, Eiloh, reigned in his place.

Also in the hand of Yeihu, the son of Chanoni, the prophet there was a word of Adonoy concerning Bashah and his house[hold], and all the evil that he did in the eyes of Adonoy, to anger Him by the deeds of his hands, that [his end] would be like the [end of] the house of Yerovom, and because he had killed him [Nodov].

In the twenty sixth year [of the reign] of Asa, king of Yehudah, Eiloh, the son of Bashah, reigned over Yisroel in Tirtzoh, for two years.

And his servant, Zimri, plotted against him; he was the officer of half of the chariots. He [Eiloh] was in Tirtzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Artzah, who oversaw the house[hold] in Tirtzah.

And Zimri came and struck him, and killed him in the twenty seventh year [of the reign] of Asa, king of Yehudah, and he [Zimri] reigned in his place.

And when he was king, as he sat on his throne, he struck the entire house of Bashah. He did not spare him any males, nor any of his relatives or friends.

And thus Zimri destroyed the entire house of Bashah, fulfilling the word of Adonoy that He spoke about Bashah through Yeihu, the prophet.

For all Bashah’s sins and the sins of Eiloh, his son that they sinned and they caused Yisroel to sin, by which they angered Adonoy, God of Yisroel, with their false gods.

The rest of the events of Eiloh and all that he did, are recorded in the Book of Chronicles of the kings of Yisroel.

In the twenty seventh year [of the reign] of Asa, king of Yehudah, Zimri reigned for seven days in Tirtzah. The people were encamped around Givson, which belonged to the Pelishtim.

And the people who were encamped heard it said “Zimri has plotted and has also killed the king.” And so all of Yisroel proclaimed Omri king,—he was the general of the army of Yisroel—on that day in the camp.

And Omri and all Yisroel with him went up from Givson and besieged Tirtzah.

When Zimri realized that the city was captured, he went into the inner chamber of the kings palace; and he [Omri] burnt him [together] with the fire of the kings palace and he [Zimri] died.

This was because of his sins that he sinned, to do that which was evil in the eyes of Adonoy, to follow in the way of Yerovom and in his sin that he did, to cause Yisroel to sin.

The rest of the events of Zimri and the conspiracy that he plotted, they are recorded in the Book of chronicles of the kings of Yisroel.

Then the people of Yisroel were split in half. Half of the people went after Tivni ben Ginas to make him their king, and the other half followed after Omri.

The people that followed Omri overpowered the people that followed Tivni ben Ginas. Tivni died and Omri reigned.

In the thirty first year of the reign of Asa, king of Yehudah. Omri reigned over Israel for twelve years. In Tirtzoh, he reigned six years.

He purchased the mountain of Shomron from Shemer for two Kikar of silver. He built up the mountain and he called the name of the city that he built, by the name of Shemer, the owner of the mountain of Shomron.

Omri did what was evil in the eyes of Adonoy. He was more wicked than all those that were before him.

He followed in every way of Yerovam ben Novat, and [especially] in his sin of causing Yisroel to sin; to anger Adonoy, God of Yisroel with their false gods.

The rest of the events of Omri that he did, and what he accomplished with his might, they are recorded in the Book of Chronicles of the kings of Yisroel.

And Omri slept with his fathers and he was buried in Shomron. His son, Achov, reigned in his place.

Achov ben Omri reigned over Yisroel in the thirty eighth year [of the reign] of Asa, king of Yehudah. Achov ben Omri reigned over Yisroel in Shomron for twenty two years.

And Achov ben Omri did that which was evil in the eyes of Adonoy, more than all those before him.

And it was insignificant for him [merely] to follow in the sin[ful] way of Yerovom be Nevat, so he took for a wife Ezevel, the daughter of Esbaal, the king of the Tzidonim, and he went and worshipped the [idol] Baal, and he bowed down to it.

He erected an altar to Baal, in the temple of Baal that he built in Shomron.

And Achov [also] made an Asheirah, and Achov continued to do more to anger Adonoy, God, of Yisroel, than all the kings of Yisroel that were before him.

In his days Chieil, of Beis Eil, built Jericho; with Avirom, his first born, he laid the foundation, and with Seguv his youngest, he put up its doors [gates]. [Everything happened] like the word of Adonoy that He spoke to Yehoshua ben Nun.