And the word of the Lord came to Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha, [saying],

Forasmuch as I lifted you up from the earth, and made you ruler over My people Israel; and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have caused My people Israel to sin, to provoke Me with their vanities;

You shall not bow down to them, nor serve them; for I am the Lord your God, a jealous God, recompensing the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation to them that hate Me,

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the works of men's hands.

And the land is filled with abominations, [even] the works of their hands; and they have worshipped [the works] which their fingers made.

But they that framed [false gods] did not then hearken; and they that engraved [images] are all vain, performing their own desires, which shall not profit them, but they shall be ashamed

and all by whom they were made have withered; yes, let all the deaf be gathered from [among] men, and let them stand together; and let them be ashamed and confounded together;

The artificer, having chosen a piece of wood, marks it out with a rule, and fits it with glue, and makes it as the form of a man, and as the beauty of a man, to set it up in the house.

that it might be for men to burn; and having taken part of it he warms himself; yes, they burn part of it, and bake loaves on it; and [of] the rest they make for themselves gods, and they worship them.

And the rest he makes a graven god, and worships and prays, saying, Deliver me; for you are my god.

And one has not considered in his mind, nor known in his understanding, that he has burned up half of it in the fire, and baked loaves on its coals and has roasted and eaten flesh, and of the rest of it he has made an abomination, and they worship it.

[This translation omits this verse.]

And Baasha son of Ahijah, [who was] over the house of Belaan son of Achia, conspired against him, and killed him in Gibbethon of the Philistines; for Nebat and all Israel were besieging Gibbethon.

And it came to pass when he reigned, that he killed the whole house of Jeroboam, and left none that breathed of Jeroboam, until he had destroyed him utterly, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite,

And the Lord said to Jehu, Because of all your deeds in which you have acted well in doing that which was right in My eyes, according to all things which you have done to the house of Ahab, [as they were] in My heart, your sons to the fourth generation shall sit upon the throne of Israel.

But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart: he departed not from following the sins of Jeroboam, who made Israel to sin.

I will send My wrath against a sinful nation, and I will command My people to take plunder and spoil, and to trample the cities, and to make dust out of them.

But he does not mean so, neither did he devise thus in his heart; but his mind shall change, and [that] to destroy nations not a few.

And the Lord said to him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little [while] and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Judah, and will make to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.

Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you took, and by lawless hands, nailing [Him] to a cross, you killed [Him];

"For truly they were assembled against Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel,

to do all that Your hand and Your counsel foreordained to come to pass.