Baasha
Behold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the
posterity of his house; and will make thy house like the house
of Jeroboam the son of Nebat....
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[There is] a league between me and thee, as [there was]
between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee
silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasha king of
Israel, that he may depart from me....
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Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of
the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, [was] it which
Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: [and]
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with [them that were]
slain....
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(Hebrew: בַּעְשָׁא, Basha, "Baal hears") was the third king of
the northern Israelite Kingdom of Israel. He was the son of
Ahijah of the Tribe of Issachar. Baasha's story is told in 1
Kings 15:16-16:7 .
Baasha became king of Israel in the third year of Asa, king
of Judah. (1 Kings 15:28 ) William F. Albright has dated his
reign to 900 - 877 B...
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ba'-a-sha ba`sha', "boldness"): King of Israel. Baasha, son of
Ahijah, and of common birth (1 Ki 16:2), usurped the throne of
Nadab, the son of Jeroboam, killed Nadab and exterminated the
house of Jeroboam. He carried on a long warfare with Asa, the
king of Judah (compare Jer 41:9), began to build Ramah, but
was prevented from completing this ...
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King of Israel
1Ki 15:16-22,27-34; 16:1-7; 21:22; 2Ki 9:9; 2Ch 16:1-
6; Jer
41:9...
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(wicked), B.C. 953-931, third sovereign of the separate
kingdom of Israel, and the founder of its second dynasty. He
was son of Ahijah of the tribe of Issachar and conspired
against King Nadab, 1Ki 15:27 and killed him with his whole
family. He appears to have been of humble origin. 1Ki 16:2 It
was probably in the 13th year of his reign that h...
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bravery, the third king of the separate kingdom of Israel,
and
founder of its second dynasty (1 Kings 15; 16; 2 Chr.
16:1-6).
He was the son of Ahijah of the tribe of Issachar. The
city of
Tirzah he made the capital of his kingdom, and there
he was
buried, after an eventful reign of twenty-four years
(1 Kings
15:33). On account of his ido...
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Son of Ahijah, of Issachar, first of the second dynasty of
kings of the ten tribes' northern kingdom, which supplanted
Jeroboam's dynasty (1 Kings 15:27). Gesenius explains the
name means "wicked": others from baah, "he who seeks;"
shaah, "he who lays waste." Though the instrument of God's
vengeance on the seed of Jeroboam who both "sinned and...
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