belicge ir both now and many Years after this time, Chap. 16. 15. declared ow, or by whom he would doit. 2. Baaſhs did this, not to 25 Even in the third year of Aſaz king of Judah, did | fulfill God's Will, bur his own Luſts. See on wer. 2. 0 Baaſha ſlay Lim o, and reigned in his ſtead. 8 In the twentieth and ſixth year of Aſa king of Ju-
» How this agrees with 2 Chron, 16- 1. ſee in the Notes there, dah, began Ela the ion of Baajha to reign 0 e Which he did, nor to fuifil God's Threatning, bur only to advance | Tirzah, wo years g.
himic!f; and therefore this is called Murder, Chap. 16 7. g One compleat, and part of the other, ver. 10. which in Scrip= 2g And 1t C4Mme tO paſs when he reigned, that he | ture-accouat is reckon'd fora Year. See above 7. I5. and 15. 25+
ſmote ail rhe bouſe of Jeroboam, he left not to Jeroboam 9 And his ſervant Zimri ( captain of half hz chari-
any chat breathed p, until he had deſtroyed him,accord- | ,,*, : : NS; kg * Chap. ir.g unto * the ſaying of the LORD qg, whick he ſpake 54 ) conſpired againſt him, as he was in Tirzah,
Ifrael in
y LS drinking himſelf drunk in the houſe of Arza 4 teward + Heb: '+ 10 by hisſervant Ahjan on Shilonite :; _ 42.6 of bus gr in Tirzah 3 I TY dal .e. Any of the Males of that Fanuly. - See Deut- 20. 16. Joſh. . * oats ; ; 0 | Fs, _ q Þ God over-ruled Baaſha's Ambition and Cruelty, to þ i e. Of all his Military Chariots, an4 the Men belonging to 9% GC
: D ms, them: the Chariots for Carriage of neceffary things, being pur into "”_ _” ad ger gong” A which ts Ge other. and meaner Hands, # Whilſt is &\rces were elſe where im- O c 1 bs) ! 3
a 6 ployed, v- 15. which gave Zimri advantage to execute his Deſign, and which lie made Iſrael to ſin F. by h1s$ proVOCAtOnN 10 And Zamri went in and {more him, and-kiiled
wherewith' he provoked the LORD God of Urael to| him in the twenty and ſeventh year of Aſa king of Ju- anger. : dah, and reigned in his ſtead. a r So that ſame wicked Policy which he uſed to eſtabliſh the King- 11 © And ircame to paſs, when he began to teigh:; _ m _ FIGEF: Jo , _ _ _ Ruine : which is very} on as he ſac on his throne, that he flew all the houſe requently. the Evenc of Ungodly Counte!s - R : pts, hs | 1 4 Now the reſt of the acts of Nadab, and all that of Baaſha : he left him * not one that piſſeth againſt a * ; Sanis
he did, are they not written in the book of the Chro- wail, [| neither of his kinsfolks, knor of his friends [. 25: 225
- . K 2 k Heb. Avengers; to whom it belong'd to Revenge his Death, See ſi Or, beth * See above nicles of the kings of Iſrael * 3 ſha ki Numb. 35.12. 7 His Confidents, and familiar Acquaintance, ſuch his kinſmen "#298 22 And there was war between Aſa and Baaſha king | ;; were moſt likely to hinder his Sertlement in the Throne,and to 4nd +15 of Iſrael all their days. Avenge their Friends Quarrel. Friends.
23 Inchethir: yearof Aſa king of Judah, began Baa- 12 Thus did Zimri deſtroy all the houſe of Baaſha, f Hed S ſha the ſon of Ahijah co reign over all Iſrael in Tirzah *, | according to the word of the LORD, which he ſpake "3 ins ewenty and four years. againſt Baaſha w, + by Jehu the prophet: - 24 And he didevil in the ſight of the LORD, and mie. Thus fulfilling God's Threatning, bur either without his walked in the way of Jeroboam, andin bis ſin where- | k20wledge, or meerly for his own ends.
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: 13 For all thetins of Baaſha, and the ſins of Elah his
W1 a , : . | th he made Iſrael to ſin ſons ; by which they ſinned, and by which they made
EE I s” - A -P, wow WI [ſrael to fin, in provoking the LORD God of 1{rael ro 2u prophecyeth againſt Baaſha, 1 7» Elah Jucceeaeth him * Him | ,nger with their vanities ns | Zimri ſlayeth, and jucceedeth: He, beſieged by Omri, burneth himſelf. | _” | a4 Y <_ A g. 20: Gui proveilith agaiaii Tint aut Kher « Solis 2 1.e- 1dols, oft called Yanities : as Deut: 42:21; 1Sam* 12: 219
. . becaule they are but imasinary Deities, and meer no Samaria : Followeth the ſins of Feroboam, and dieth, 21> 28. Ahab h, J eat 4 mY —_ UNASUIATY. » Þ ,- on ſucceedeth him: He is more wicked [ohan his Predeceſſors, 29 —33. things 1 Cor. 8. 4 having nothing art all of a God in them, and
Hid oe Jericho : = Joſbus's Curſe is fulfilled in him. 34. wa = prabiara f Elah . and all that he am . by rn , begs ot the LORD cumeroJehu « the {or did, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles __ ymnggs b, _ Baaſha, laying, FY of the kings of Iſrael * ? ct, Or Whom fee more, Chron 19-2 and 20 34. | he ' \ Ld ; & Who alſo was a Prophet, 2 Chron. In ; "y i5 4 Inthe twenty and ſeventh year of Aſa king of
2 Foraſmuch as 1 exalted thee out of the duſt c, and | Judah, did Zimri reign ſeven days in Tirzah : and the made thee prince over my people Iſrael, and thou hali | people wereencamped againſt Gibberchon,which belonged walked in the way of Jeroboam, and haſt made my | to the Philiſtines o,
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was then relieved, or afterwards recovered by the Phil:tines ; taking the advantage of the Diſorders and Contentions which were among their Enemies.
16 And the people that were encamped, heard ſay, Zimri hath conſpired, and hath alſo ſlain the king : wherefore all Iſrael made Omri the captain ofthe hoſt king over Iſrael that day in the camp.
17 And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Iſrael with him, and they befeged Tirzah. |
18 And it came to paſs when Zimri ſaw that the city was taken, that he went into the palace of the kings houſe, and burnt the kings houſe over him p with fire, and died ;
pOr, and he burnt, &rc. Either, x. Omri burnt it over Zimri ; for Pronouns ſometimes reſpe more remote Nouns. Or rather, 2- Zimri ( to whom both the foregoing and following words apparently belong ) who burnt it upon himſelf; that neither himſelf, nor the Royal Palace and Treafures might come into the hands of his 1n- ſulting Adverſary, ;
19 For his fins q which he ſinned, in doing evil in the ſight of the LORD, in walking in the way of Jeroboamr, and in his fin which he did, to make [Iſrael fin.