Jehu prophesieth against Baasa: his son Ela is slain and all his family destroyed by Zambri. Of the reign of Amri father of Achab.
Iehu for prophecying the destruction of Baasa and his house, 7. is slaine. 8. yet his sonne Ela reigneth tvvo yeares. 9. Then Zambri rebelleth, killeth Ela, and reigneth. 16. Part of the people choosing Amri (prince of the armie) their king, 18. Zambri desperatly burneth himselfe and the kings palace, 21. an other part folow Thebni as king til his death. 23. Amri reigneth tvvelue yeares vvickedly. 29. His sonne Achab succedeth, marieth Iezabel, and serueth Baal. 34. In the meane time Hiel repairer• Iericho.
1Then the word of the Lord came to Jehu, the son of Hanani, against Baasa, saying:Ma il Signore parlò a Jehu figliuolo di Hanani contro Baasa, e disse:AND the word of our Lord came to Iehu the sonne of Hanani agaynst Baasa, saying:Factus est autem sermo Domini ad Jehu filium Hanani contra Baasa, dicens: 2For as much as I have exalted thee out of the dust and made thee prince over my people Israel, and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins:Perchè io ti ho innalzato dalla polvere, e ti ho fatto capo del popol mio d'Israele, tu hai battute le vie di Jeroboam, e hai indotto il popol mio d'Israele a peccare, provocandomi a sdegno co' loro peccati:For so much as I haue exalted thee out of the dust, & sette thee duke ouer my people Israel, but thou hast walked in the way of Ieroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sinne, that thou mightest anger me with their sinnes:Pro eo quod exaltavi te de pulvere, et posui te ducem super populum meum Israël, tu autem ambulasti in via Jeroboam, et peccare fecisti populum meum Israël, ut me irritares in peccatis eorum: 3Behold I will cut down the posterity of Baasa, and the posterity of his house, and I will make thy house as the house of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat.Ecco, ch'io mieterò la posterità di Baasa, e la posterità della sua famiglia; e della tua casa farò quello, che ho fatto della casa di Geroboam figliuolo di Nabat.behold, I wil cut downe the posteritie of Baasa, and the posteritie of his house, and I wil make thy house as the house of Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat.ecce ego demetam posteriora Baasa, et posteriora domus ejus, et faciam domum tuam sicut domum Jeroboam filii Nabat. 4Him that dieth of Baasa, in the city, the dogs shall eat: and him that dieth of his in the country, the fowls of the air shall devour.Quelli della stirpe di Baasa, che morranno in città, saran divorati dai cani, e que', che morranno nel suo territorio, li mangeranno gli uccelli dell'aria.Whosoeuer of Baasa shal die in the citie, him shal the dogges eate: and whosoeuer of his shal die in the countrie, him shal the fowles of the ayre deuoure.Qui mortuus fuerit de Baasa in civitate, comedent eum canes: et qui mortuus fuerit ex eo in regione, comedent eum volucres cæli. 5But the rest of the acts of Baasa, and all that he did, and his battles, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?Ma il rimanente delle azioni di Baasa, e tutto quello, che ei fece, e le sue guerre, non son elleno scritte nel Diario dei re d'Israele?But the rest of the wordes of Baasa, and whatsoeuer he did, and his battels, are not these things written in the Booke of the wordes of the daies of the kinges of Israel?Reliqua autem sermonum Baasa, et quæcumque fecit, et prælia ejus, nonne hæc scripta sunt in libro verborum dierum regum Israël ?
6So Baasa slept with his fathers, and was buried in Thersa: and Ela, his son, reigned in his stead.Baasa adunque si addormentò co' padri suoi, e fu sepolto in Thersa, e regnò in sua vece Eia suo figliuolo.Baasa therfore slept with his fathers, and was buried in Thersa: and Ela his sonne reigned for him.Dormivit ergo Baasa cum patribus suis, sepultusque est in Thersa: et regnavit Ela filius ejus pro eo. 7And when the word of the Lord came in the hand of Jehu, the son of Hanani, the prophet, against Baasa, and against his house, and against all the evil that he had done before the Lord, to provoke him to anger by the works of his hands, to become as the house of Jeroboam: for this cause he slew him; that is to say, Jehu, the son of Hanani, the prophet.Ma dopo che Jehu profeta figliuolo di Hanani ebbe parlato per ordine del Signore contro Baasa, e contro la casa di lui, e in vituperazione di tutti i mali fatti da lui nel cospetto del Signore, irritandolo colle opere delle sue mani, onde poi accadesse a lui come alla casa di Geroboam: per questa ragione egli lo uccise, viene a dire, uccise Jehu profeta, figliuolo di Hanani.And when the word of our Lord came in the hand of Iehu the sonne of Hanani the prophete agaynst Baasa, and agaynst his house, and agaynst al the euil, that he had done before our Lord, to anger him in the workes of his handes, that it should be made as the house of Ieroboam: for this cause he slew him, that is to say, Iehu the sonne of Hanani, the prophete.Cum autem in manu Jehu filii Hanani prophetæ verbum Domini factum esset contra Baasa, et contra domum ejus, et contra omne malum quod fecerat coram Domino, ad irritandum eum in operibus manuum suarum, ut fieret sicut domus Jeroboam: ob hanc causam occidit eum, hoc est, Jehu filium Hanani prophetam. 8In the six and twentieth year of Asa, king of Juda, Ela, the son of Baasa, reigned over Israel, in Thersa, two years.L'anno ventisei di Asa re di Giuda, Eia figliuolo di Baasa prese il regno sopra Israele in Thersa per due anni.In the sixe and twenteth yeare of Asa the king of Iuda, reigned Ela the sonne of Baasa ouer Israel in Thersa two yeares.Anno vigesimo sexto Asa regis Juda, regnavit Ela filius Baasa super Israël in Thersa, duobus annis. 9And his servant Zambri, who was captain of half the horsemen, rebelled against him: now Ela was drinking in Thersa, and drunk in the house of Arsa, the governor of Thersa.Ma si ribellò contro di lui Zambri suo servo, capitano della metà dei soldati a cavallo. Stava adunque Eia sbevazzando in Thersa, ed era ubbriaco in casa di Arsa governatore di Thersa.And his seruant Zambri rebelled agaynst him, the captayne of the halfe part of the horsemen: and Ela was in Thersa drinking, and dronken in the house of Arsa the gouernour of Thersa.Et rebellavit contra eum servus suus Zambri, dux mediæ partis equitum: erat autem Ela in Thersa bibens, et temulentus in domo Arsa præfecti Thersa.
10And Zambri rushing in, struck him, and slew him, in the seven and twentieth year of Asa, king of Juda and he reigned in his stead.Quando Zambri andò con gran furia, e gli diede il colpo, e lo uccise l'anno vigesimo settimo di Asa re di Giuda; ed egli regnò in sua vece.Zambri therfore rushing in, stroke and slew him in the seuen and twenteth yeare of Asa the king of Iuda, & he reigned for him.Irruens ergo Zambri, percussit et occidit eum, anno vigesimo septimo Asa regis Juda, et regnavit pro eo. 11And when he was king, and sat upon his throne, he slew all the house of Baasa, and he left not one thereof to piss against a wall and all his kinsfolks and friends.E divenuto re, ed essendo assiso sul trono, sterminò tutta la casa di Baasa, e i parenti, e gli amici di lui senza lasciar vivo un cane.And when he teigned, and sate vpon his throne, he stroke al the house of Baasa, and he leaft not of it one that could pysse agaynst a wal, & his kinsfolke and frendes.Cumque regnasset, et sedisset super solium ejus, percussit omnem domum Baasa, et non dereliquit ex ea mingentem ad parietem: et propinquos et amicos ejus. 12And Zambri destroyed all the house of Baasa, according to the word of the Lord, that he had spoken to Baasa, in the hand of Jehu, the prophet,Così Zambri distrusse tutta la progenie di Baasa, secondo la parola pronunziata dal Signore per bocca di Jehu profeta,And Zambri destroyed al the house of Baasa, according to the word of our Lord, that he had spoken to Baasa in the hand of Iehu the prophet,Delevitque Zambri omnem domum Baasa, juxta verbum Domini quod locutus fuerat ad Baasa in manu Jehu prophetæ, 13For all the sins of Baasa, and the sins of Ela, his son, who sinned, and made Israel to sin, provoking the Lord, the God of Israel, with their vanities.A motivo di tutti i peccati di Baasa, e pei peccati di Eia suo figliuolo, quali peccarono, e fecer peccare Israele, provocando ad ira il Signore Dio d'Israele colle lor vanità.for al the sinnes of Baasa, and the sinnes of Ela his sonne, who sinned, and made Israel to sinne, prouoking our Lord the God of Israel in their vanities.propter universa peccata Baasa, et peccata Ela filii ejus, qui peccaverunt, et peccare fecerunt Israël, provocantes Dominum Deum Israël in vanitatibus suis. 14But the rest of the acts of Ela, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?Il resto poi delle azioni di Eia, e tutto quello, ch'egli operò, non è egli scritto nel Diario dei re d'Israele?But the rest of the wordes of Ela, and al that he did, are not these writen in the Booke of the wordes of the daies of the kinges of Israel?Reliqua autem sermonum Ela, et omnia quæ fecit, nonne hæc scripta sunt in libro verborum dierum regum Israël ?
15In the seven and twentieth year of Asa, king of Juda, Zambri reigned seven days in Thersa: now the army was besieging Gebbethon, a city of the Philistines.L'anno vigesimo settimo di Asa re di Giuda, Zambri regnò per sette giorni in Thersa; perocché l'esercito d'Israele assediava Gebbethon città de' Filistei.In the seuen and twenteth yeare of Asa the king of Iuda, reigned Zambri seuen daies in Thersa: moreouer the armie besieged Gebbethon a citie of the Philisthines.Anno vigesimo septimo Asa regis Juda, regnavit Zambri septem diebus in Thersa: porro exercitus obsidebat Gebbethon urbem Philisthinorum. 16And when they heard that Zambri had rebelled, and slain the king, all Israel made Amri their king, who was general over Israel in the camp that day.E avendo udito come Zambri si era ribellato, e aveva ucciso il re, tutto Israele elesse per suo re Amri capitano delle milizie d'Israele, il quale trovavasi allora nel campo.And when they heard that Zambri had rebelled, and slayne the king, al Israel made Amri their king, who was General of the warfare ouer Israel that day, in the campe.Cumque audisset rebellasse Zambri, et occidisse regem, fecit sibi regem omnis Israël Amri, qui erat princeps militiæ super Israël in die illa in castris. 17And Amri went up, and all Israel with him, from Gebbethon, and they besieged Thersa.Amri adunque si mosse con tutto Israele da Gebbethon, e assediò Thersa.Amri therfore went vp, and al Israel with him from Gebbethon, and they besieged Thersa.Ascendit ergo Amri, et omnis Israël cum eo, de Gebbethon, et obsidebant Thersa. 18And Zambri, seeing that the city was about to be taken, went into the palace, and burnt himself with the king’s house: and he diedE veggendo Zambri, che la città sarebbe espugnata, entrò nella reggia, e si abbruciò colla casa reale, e morì,And Zambri seing that the citie should be taken, he went into the palace, and burnt him self with the kinges house: and he diedVidens autem Zambri quod expugnanda esset civitas, ingressus est palatium, et succendit se cum domo regia: et mortuus est 19In his sins, which he had sinned, doing evil before the Lord, and walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin, wherewith he made Israel to sin.Per ragione dei peccati, che avea commessi (facendo il male nel cospetto del Signore, e battendo le vie di Geroboam), e pei peccati, che fece commettere ad Israele.in his sinnes, which he had sinned doing euil before our Lord, and walking in the way of Ieroboam, and in his sinne; wherwith he made Israel to sinne.in peccatis suis quæ peccaverat, faciens malum coram Domino, et ambulans in via Jeroboam, et in peccato ejus, quo fecit peccare Israël.
20But the rest of the acts of Zambri, and of his conspiracy and tyranny, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?Il resto poi delle azioni di Zambri, e la sua congiura, e la sua tirannide, non son elleno descritte nel Diario dei re d'Israele?But the rest of the wordes of Zambri, and of his treason, and tyrannie, are not these thinges writen in the Booke of the wordes of the dayes of the kinges of Israel?Reliqua autem sermonum Zambri, et insidiarum ejus, et tyrannidis, nonne hæc scripta sunt in libro verborum dierum regum Israël ? 21Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: one half of the people followed Thebni, the son of Gineth, to make him king: and one half followed Amri.Allora si divise il popolo d'Israele in due fazioni: la metà del popolo aderiva a Thebni figliuolo di Gineth, per farlo re; e l'altra metà era per Amri.Then was the people of Israel diuided into two partes: the halfe part of the people folowed Thebni the sonne of Gineth, to make him king: and the halfe part Amri.Tunc divisus est populus Israël in duas partes: media pars populi sequebatur Thebni filium Gineth, ut constitueret eum regem: et media pars Amri. 22But the people that were with Amri, prevailed over the people that followed Thebni, the son of Gineth: and Thebni died, and Amri reigned.Ma la vinse il popolo, che teneva per Amri, contro la gente, che seguiva Thebni figliuolo di Geneth: e Thebni morì, e regnò Amri.But the people that was with Amri, preuayled ouer the people that folowed Thebni the sonne of Gineth: and Thebni died, and Amri reigned.Prævaluit autem populus qui erat cum Amri, populo qui sequebatur Thebni filium Gineth: mortuusque est Thebni, et regnavit Amri. 23In the one and thirtieth year of Asa, king of Juda, Amri reigned over Israel twelve years: in Thersa he reigned six years.L'anno trentuno di Asa re di Giuda, Amri prese il regno d'Israele per dodici anni: in Thersa regnò anni sei.In the one and thirteth yeare of Asa the king of Iuda Amri reigned ouer Israel, twelue yeares: in Thersa he reigned six yeares.Anno trigesimo primo Asa regis Juda, regnavit Amri super Israël, duodecim annis: in Thersa regnavit sex annis. 24And he bought the hill of Samaria of Semer, for two talents of silver: and he built upon it, and he called the city which he built Samaria, after the name of Semer, the owner of the hill.E comperò il monte di Samaria da Somer per due talenti d'argento; e alla città, che ivi fabbricò diede il nome di Samaria, dal nome di Somer padrone del monte.And he bought the mount of Samaria of Somer for two talentes of siluer: and he built it, and he called the citie which he had built, by the name of Semer the lord of the mount of Samaria.Emitque montem Samariæ a Somer duobus talentis argenti: et ædificavit eum, et vocavit nomen civitatis quam exstruxerat, nomine Semer domini montis, Samariam.
25And Amri did evil in the sight of the Lord, and acted wickedly above all that were before him.Ma Amri fece il male nel cospetto del Signore, e fu scellerato sopra tutti i suoi predecessori.And Amri did euil in the sight of our Lord, and wrought wickedly aboue al, that were before him.Fecit autem Amri malum in conspectu Domini, et operatus est nequiter, super omnes qui fuerunt ante eum. 26And he walked in all the way of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, and in his sins, wherewith he made Israel to sin: to provoke the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.E imitò in tutto Geroboam figliuolo di Nabat, anche nell'indurre, come quegli, Israele a peccare, provocando a sdegno il Signore Dio a Israele colle sue vanità.And he walked in al the way of Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat, and in his sinnes wherwith he made Israel to sinne: that they might anger our Lord the God of Israel in their vanities.Ambulavitque in omni via Jeroboam filii Nabat, et in peccatis ejus quibus peccare fecerat Israël, ut irritaret Dominum Deum Israël in vanitatibus suis. 27Now the rest of the acts of Amri, and the battles he fought, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?Il resto poi delle azioni di Amri, e le guerre fatte da lui, non son elleno scritte nel Diario dei re d'Israele?But the rest of the wordes of Amri, and the battels he made, are not these thinges writen in the Booke, of the battels that he made are not these thinges written in the Booke of the wordes of the daies of the kinges of Israel?Reliqua autem sermonum Amri, et prælia ejus quæ gessit, nonne hæc scripta sunt in libro verborum dierum regum Israël ? 28And Amri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria, and Achab, his son, reigned in his stead.E Amri si addormento co' padri suoi, e fu sepolto in Samaria, e succedette a lui nel regno Achab suo figliuolo.And Amri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria and Achab his sonne reigned for him.Dormivitque Amri cum patribus suis, et sepultus est in Samaria: regnavitque Achab filius ejus pro eo. 29Now Achab, the son of Amri, reigned over Israel in the eight and thirtieth year of Asa, king of Juda. And Achab, the son of Amri, reigned over Israel in Samaria two and twenty years.Or Achab figliuolo di Amri ebbe il regno d'Israele l'anno trentottesimo di Asa re di Giuda; e Achab figliuolo di Amri regnò in Samaria sopra Israele per ventidue anni.But Achab the sonne of Amri reigned ouer Israel the eight and thirteth yeare of Asa the king of Iuda. And Achab the sonne of Amri reigned ouer Israel in Samiaria two and twentie yeares.Achab vero filius Amri regnavit super Israël anno trigesimo octavo Asa regis Juda. Et regnavit Achab filius Amri super Israël in Samaria viginti et duobus annis.
30And Achab, the son of Amri, did evil in the sight of the Lord above all that were before him.E Achab figliuolo di Amri fece il male nel cospetto del Signore sopra tutti i suoi predecessori.And Achab the sonne of Amri did euil in the sight of our Lord aboue al, that were before him.Et fecit Achab filius Amri malum in conspectu Domini super omnes qui fuerunt ante eum. 31Nor was it enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat: but he also took to wife Jezabel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians. And he went, and served Baal, and adored him.E non si contento d'imitare i peccati di Geroboam figliuolo di Nabat, ma di più prese per moglie Jezabel figliuola di Ethbaal re de' Sidoni: ed egli andò a servire a Baal, e ad adorarlo.Neither did it suffice him that he walked in the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat: besides he tooke to wife Iezabel the daughter of Ethbaul the king of the Sidonians. And he went, and serued Baal, and adored him.Nec suffecit ei ut ambularet in peccatis Jeroboam filii Nabat: insuper duxit uxorem Jezabel filiam Ethbaal regis Sidoniorum. Et abiit, et servivit Baal, et adoravit eum. 32And he set up an altar for Baal, in the temple of Baal, which he had built in Samaria;Ed eresse un altare a Baal nel tempio di Baal, edificato da lui in Samaria;And he sette an altar to Baal in the temple of Baal, which he had built in Samaria,Et posuit aram Baal in templo Baal, quod ædificaverat in Samaria, 33And he planted a grove: and Achab did more to provoke the Lord, the God of Israel, than all the kings of Israel that were before him.E piantò un boschetto: e andò avanti nel suo mal fare, provocando a sdegno il Signore Dio d'Israele più che non avean fatto tutti i re d'Israele, che erano stati prima di lui.and he planted a groue: and Achab added in his worke, prouoking our Lord the God of Israel aboue al the kinges of Israel, that were before him.et plantavit lucum: et addidit Achab in opere suo, irritans Dominum Deum Israël super omnes reges Israël qui fuerunt ante eum. 34In his days Hiel, of Bethel, built Jericho: in Abiram, his firstborn, he laid its foundations: and in his youngest son, Segub, he set up the gates thereof: according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke in the hand of Josue, the son of Nun.A tempo di lui Hiel di Bethel edificò Gericho: egli ne gettò i fondamenti sopra del suo primogenito Abiram, e ne piantò le porte sopra l'ultimo suo figliuolo Segub, giusta la parola pronunziata dal Signore per bocca di Giosuè figliuolo di Nun.In his daies Hiel of Bethel built Iericho: in Abiram his first borne he founded it, and in Segub his last he sette vp the gates therof: according to the word of our Lord, which he spake in the hand of Iosue the sonne of Nun.In diebus ejus ædificavit Hiel de Bethel Jericho: in Abiram primitivo suo fundavit eam, et in Segub novissimo suo posuit portas ejus, juxta verbum Domini quod locutus fuerat in manu Josue filii Nun.
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Calmet
Jehu was different from one of the same name and parentage, who came to Josaphat; (2 Paralipomenon 19:2.; Du Hamel; Tirinus) though, if Baasa did not put him to death, as there is some reason to doubt, he might be the same, ver. 7. (Calmet)
Abulensis
Hanani had been sent to Asa, 2 Paralipomenon 16:7. (Abulensis, q. 3.)
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Haydock
I have. All power comes from God, though he frequently disapproves of the means by which people obtain it. (Haydock)
Baasa was a traitorous usurper.
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Calmet
Posterity, (posteriora.; Haydock) children, and all that he shall leave behind. (Calmet)
Salien
Baasa himself died a natural death, ver. 6. (Salien)
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Menochius
The evil, to punish it. (Menochius)
Grotius
He, God, slew him, Baasa, (Calmet) or "because the latter slew" Nadab, etc. (Grotius)
Calmet
God punished his usurpation and murders. (Calmet)
Estius
That is, etc., is not found in Hebrew, Chaldean, Septuagint, nor in some Latin copies. (Estius)
Calmet
Hence Jehu might survive to admonish Josaphat, ver. 1. (Calmet)
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Year of the World 3074, Year before Christ 930.
Years, in part, as he was slain in the 27th year of Asa, ver. 10.
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Calmet
Horsemen. Hebrew, "chariots." (Septuagint) (Calmet)
Menochius
But Josephus styles him, Hipparchon, "general of the horse." (Menochius)
Haydock
Rebelled. Hebrew, "conspired." (Haydock)
Menochius
He acted privately at first. (Menochius)
Calmet
Governor. Hebrew, "steward of his house." Chaldean and Arabic, "in the temple of the idol Arsa," the earth, whom the pagans worshipped as the mother of gods and men; unless Arsa be put for Asera, or Astarte. (Calmet)
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Wall. See 1 Kings 25:22.
Menochius
Friends, from whom he had any thing to fear. (Menochius)
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Haydock
Vanities; idols. (Haydock)
Menochius
They raised fresh altars; or, by their example, encouraged the people to persevere in their impiety. (Menochius)
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Year of the World 3075, Year before Christ 929.
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Worthington
All Israel, that was in the army, while others took part with Zambri. (Worthington)
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Himself. Hebrew may also signify, "he (Amri) burnt him."
Calmet
Zambri, his rival. But the other sense is more natural. (Calmet)
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Calmet
To sin. Zambri had sufficient time, in seven days, (Haydock) to manifest his evil dispositions, of which he had perhaps given proof before. (Calmet)
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Calmet
Parts. Those who had chosen Amri, were mortified at the election made by the army, and therefore set up another king. (Calmet)
Houbigant
The contest seems to have lasted four years. (Houbigant)
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Menochius
Died in the battle, wherein Amri prevailed. (Menochius)
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Year of the World 3079, Year before Christ 925.
Challoner
In the one and thirtieth year, etc. Amri began to reign in the seven and twentieth year of Asa; but had not the quiet possession of the kingdom, till the death of his competitor Thebni, which was in the one and thirtieth year of Asa's reign. (Challoner)
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Arbuthnot
Silver: 684l. 7s. 6d. sterling. (Arbuthnot)
Salien
The place was sold so cheap, on condition that it should be called after the original owner. (Salien)
Haydock
Somer dwelt there; and several houses had been already erected, (chap. 13:32.) and even streets, by the king of Syria, for the convenience of his merchants, 3 Kings 20:34. (Haydock)
Thersa had lately been so much ruined by civil wars, that Amri thought proper to choose a new seat of government. Samaria was greatly adorned by succeeding kings, 3 Kings 22:39. It stood in a delightful and commanding situation, and gave its name to the adjacent territory, and to the whole kingdom of Israel. Benadad besieged it twice; and Salmanasar took it. The kings of Egypt laid claim to it, after the death of Alexander: but Antiochus, of Syria, took it from them. Hyrcanus levelled it with the ground. Herod the Great rebuilt the city, and called it Sebaste, in honour of Augustus.
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Haycock
Above. He made a law, (Calmet) to force all to conform to the established irreligion, Micheas 6:16. (Haycock)
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With their vanities. That is, their idols, their golden calves, vain, false, deceitful things.
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Year of the World 3086, Year before Christ 918.
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Calmet
Jezabel, whose name is become proverbial, to designate a proud, lewd, cruel, and impious woman, Apocalypse 2:20. Grotius compares her with Tullia, Fulvia, and Eudoxia, the respective wives of Tarquin, Anthony, and Arcadius. She was the chief promoter of all the evils of Achab's reign. He did not insist that she should embrace the true religion, when he married her; as it is supposed former kings had done, when they espoused women who had been brought up in idolatry. (Calmet)
Haycock
He even introduced her country's idols, and thus enhanced upon the wickedness of his predecessors. (Haycock)
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Haydock
Hand. Josue had committed this curse to writing. (Haydock)
Calmet
Hiel, an idolater, did not regard it, and Achab had not zeal to attempt to hinder him. But divine Providence punished his audacity. (Calmet)
Worthington
All his sons perished, while the city was rebuilding. (Worthington)
Calmet
See Josue 6:26. (Calmet)
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In the one and thirtieth year, etc.... Amri began to reign in the seven and twentieth year of Asa; but had not quiet possession of the kingdom till the death of his competitor Thebni, which was in the one and thirtieth year of Asa’s reign.
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With their vanities.... That is, their idols their golden calves, vain, false, deceitful things.
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Al those that were in the campe chose their general to be their king and preuailed therin: though an other half of Israel chose and folowed an other for a time.
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Thebni being then dead he reigned peaceably. for he began his reigne the 27. yeare of Asa. •. 15. & 16. and reigned in al 12. yeares.
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VVhen Hiel began to build Iericho, his eldest sonne died. so the rest successiuely, that the last died when he finished the building: because God by the mouth of Iosue had forbid the building therof.
Iosue. •.
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St John Chrysostom † AD 407 The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. John 31
… For this was the place where Levi and Simeon, being angry because of Dinah, wrought that cruel slaughter. And it may be worth while to relate from what sources the Samaritans were made up; since all this country is called Samaria. Whence then did they receive their name? The mountain was called “Somor” from its owner (
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Aphrahat † AD 346 Aphrahat: Select Demonstrations 6.3
… Amnon was beautiful and fair in countenance, yet (the adversary) took him captive by desire for his sister, and Absalom slew him on account of the humbling of Tamar. Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth, yet in the days of his old age his wives led his heart astray. Through Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, the wickedness of Ahab was increased,
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St Jerome † AD 420 The Letters of St. Jerome 108.12
… She was shewn too the spot by the wayside where the blind men sat who, receiving their sight from the Lord, became types of the two peoples who should believe upon Him. Then entering Jericho she saw the city which Hiel founded in Abiram his firstborn and of which he set up the gates in his youngest son Segub.
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2. But thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, — that is to say, Thou hast followed his idolatry, and hast compelled the people to adore the golden calves erected by Jeroboam as idols.
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3. AND I WILL MAKE YOUR HOUSE LIKE THE HOUSE OF JEROBOAM, — that is to say, Just as through you I utterly destroyed the family of Jeroboam on account of the idolatry of the calves, so on account of the same sin I will root out your offspring through Zambri, your son Ela rebelling, verse 9. Remarkable was the perversity and stupidity of the kings of Israel, in that, when they saw by God's command the families of preceding kings utterly overthrown on account of the worship of calves, and indeed they themselves overthrew those same families, yet they themselves worshipped those same calves and proposed them to be worshipped by the people, lest they return to the temple and to Asa king of Jerusalem; even though the prophets cried out and threatened them with destruction, surely the devil and the ambition of reigning blinded and maddened them. Hence by God's just judgment it came to pass that they were all executioners of one another: for Baasa was the executioner of the sons of Jeroboam, Zambri was the executioner of the sons of Baasa, and Zambri was the executioner of Amri: thus among the Romans Julius Caesar removed Pompey, Brutus and Cassius removed Julius, Augustus removed these. Soon the Senate drove Nero to death, Otho drove Galba, Vitellius drove Otho, Vespasian drove Vitellius, Domitian drove Titus, and Nerva and Trajan drove Domitian, as Sextus Aurelius Victor relates in the Epitome of the Caesars: behold here that true saying of Juvenal: To the son-in-law of Ceres (Pluto) without bloodshed and slaughter few kings descend, and tyrants with a bloodless death. Whence concerning Galba Tacitus said: "By the consent of all he was capable of empire, had he not reigned." But concerning Vespasian: "He alone of the emperors," he says, "was changed for the better." But on this matter there will be a fuller discussion verse 31 in Achab.
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5. WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE WORDS OF THE DAYS OF THE KINGS OF ISRAEL, — namely in the Diaries and Annals of the kings of Israel, as I said above.
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7. FOR THIS CAUSE HE SLEW HIM, — namely on account of the prophecy by which he threatened destruction to Ela the idolater. Jehu was therefore truly both a prophet and a martyr, and the prophecy made him a martyr.
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9. AND HIS SERVANT ZAMBRI REBELLED AGAINST HIM. — Note here God's just judgments upon unfaithful and idolatrous kings: because Ela rebelled against God his supreme Lord; hence by God's just vengeance his servant and commander Zambri rebelled against him in turn: just as Ela slew Jehu the prophet of God, so he himself was slain by Zambri by God's will.
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18. AND ZAMBRI SEEING THAT THE CITY WAS TO BE TAKEN, WENT INTO THE PALACE, AND BURNT HIMSELF WITH THE KING'S HOUSE. — Namely Zambri the tyrant, desiring the palace, found a pyre, and ascending into the royal house threw himself into the pyre. The same thing did Sardanapalus, the last king of the Assyrians, who, besieged in Nineveh by Arbaces the Prefect of his army, lest he fall into his hands, built a great pyre in the palace, into which he gathered all the gold and silver and whatever was of the royal furnishings. Then, shutting his concubines and eunuchs into a small house which he had built in the middle of the pyre, he consumed himself and the palace and all of them with fire. Thus Diodorus, Justin, Strabo, and others everywhere relate. Thus the wife of Hasdrubal, captured by Scipio and Carthage being burned, dragging her three sons on either side who did not refuse death, "threw herself into the fire of her burning fatherland," as Valerius Maximus says, book II, chapter II. Thus the Numantians, besieged by the Romans for 14 years, when they were failing from hunger, preferred to burn themselves and all their possessions rather than surrender to Scipio. See Florus, book II.
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22. AND THEBNI DIED, slain by the faction of Amri, according to Josephus. The Septuagint adds that the brother of Thebni was also slain, by name Joram.
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23. IN THE THIRTY-FIRST YEAR OF ASA KING OF JUDAH, AMRI REIGNED OVER ISRAEL. For although Amri, after slaying Zambri, was acclaimed king by the people in the twenty-seventh year of Asa, as was said in verses 15 and 16, nevertheless he had a rival to the kingdom in Thebni, with whom he struggled for five years, until after his death he reigned alone, which happened in the thirty-first year of Asa, as is here stated. Thus Abulensis, Richard of St. Victor, Torniellus, Salianus and others. Whence, explaining further, it adds: HE REIGNED OVER ISRAEL TWELVE YEARS:—for he began to reign after Zambri's death in the twenty-seventh year of Asa, as was said in verses 15 and 16; but he died in the thirty-eighth year of Asa, as is said in verse 29, now from the twenty-seventh year of Asa to the thirty-eighth are twelve years inclusive. See here how God prolongs the reigns of pious kings, but shortens those of impious ones. Behold, Asa reigned forty-one years in Judah, during which eight kings reigned successively in Israel, namely Jeroboam, Nadab, Baasa, Ela, Zambri, Thebni, Amri and Achab, all of whose rise and fall (except Achab) Asa witnessed. HE REIGNED IN THERSA SIX YEARS.—"Thersa" before Amri was the metropolis and royal seat of the kings of Israel. Wherefore Amri reigned in it five years, during which he contended with Thebni for the kingdom, but after his death, in the sixth year of his reign he transferred the royal seat from Thersa to Samaria, which he built, as follows, and reigned there another six years, that is in total both in Thersa and in Samaria twelve years, as was said. The cause of the transfer was that Zambri had burned the royal seat in Thersa with himself, and soon the city captured by Amri had been despoiled and laid waste, as was said in verse 18. Again, because Samaria, on account of the mountain on which it stood, would be more fortified. Whence it itself long afterwards sustained the assaults of enemies besieging it. Thus Salianus. For these reasons therefore Amri transferred the kingdom and royal seat from Thersa to Samaria.
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24. AND HE BOUGHT THE MOUNT OF SAMARIA FROM SOMER (a name of the man who was the lord of the mount) FOR TWO TALENTS OF SILVER.—A Hebrew talent contained three thousand shekels, or fifteen hundred ounces (for a shekel is a half-ounce), which make twelve thousand drachmas. A drachma of silver is a Roman julius, or a Spanish real, wherefore a talent of silver contained three thousand florins of Brabant, or French florins of Gaul, which make twelve hundred Roman gold coins: therefore two talents of silver make six thousand florins of Brabant, which amount to twenty-four hundred gold coins. AND HE CALLED THE NAME OF THE CITY, WHICH HE HAD BUILT, BY THE NAME OF SEMER (or Somer) THE LORD OF THE MOUNT, SAMARIA. Some think that Samaria was built earlier, for mention of the name Samaria was made in chapter XIII, verse 32, but here Amri only added to the old city a neighboring mount, and extended the city to that point, and then called the whole Samaria. Thus Sanchez. Others however think that the whole city was first built by Amri and named Samaria: wherefore in chapter XIII it is called Samaria by anticipation, because when the Author of the book was writing these things it was afterwards called Samaria. This is that famous metropolis of the kings of Israel, against which Isaiah and the other prophets thunder.
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31. AND HE WENT AND SERVED BAAL. — "Baal," or "Bal, Bel, and Belus," is Jupiter Belus, namely "Nimrod." For Nimrod is Belus, who was the father of Ninus, the first king of the Assyrians, by whom Nineveh was founded and named, whose wife was Semiramis. Nimrod therefore was called "Baal," that is, lord, and was the author of idolatry in the three hundredth year after the flood, as I said in Genesis X, 9. Whence from him the other gods and idols of the nations thereafter were called or named "Baal" or "Baalim." Whence Abulensis in the fourth book of Kings, chapter III, Question III, holds that this Baal was the Hercules of the Sidonians and Tyrians; for he was held in great honor among them. Whence Hiram, king of Tyre, in the time of Solomon, erected a statue to him, as Josephus testifies, book VIII, chapter II. Hence in Tyre quinquennial games were celebrated for Hercules, as appears in II Maccabees IV, 18; therefore to the idols and calves of Jeroboam he added the idol of Baal or Jupiter Bel, which his wife Jezabel worshipped after the manner of her Sidonian nation. Tropologically, learn from this how hateful to God, and therefore how unhappy, is impiety, namely because the life of impious princes is a continuous and most disastrous tragedy; let this appear from what is said in chapter XII, XV, XVI, and in the fourth book, chapter IX, X, XI, XV; receive these tragic events. After Jeroboam occupied the kingdom of Israel on account of the sin of Solomon, avenged through him in the person of Rehoboam his son, with ten tribes transferred to Jeroboam, his son also reigned in Israel. Vengeance in the person of the son followed, and he himself with all his seed and house of Nabat was wiped out by the new king Baasha. The tyranny of Baasha ended in his son Elah, who was slain with all his seed by Zimri his servant. Zimri reigned only for seven days, and besieged by Omri, forced to burn himself in the palace, he destroyed the royal line. Omri and Ahab's line was destroyed by Jehu, servant of Joram the king, who was of the line of Ahab. But in the fourth generation vengeance came upon the line of Jehu, according to the word of the Lord, and therefore Zechariah, who was descended from Jehu, was cut down by his servant, named Shallum, who reigned in his stead in Israel for only one month, likewise slain by Menahem son of Gadi in Tirzah, who reigned in his stead ten years in Israel, and after him Pekahiah his son for only two years: for Pekah son of Remaliah his captain slew him; but Hoshea son of Elah also slew this one, and he was transferred with his people to the Assyrians. Thus Saladin, says Aemilius, book VI, having subdued the East, at last died, and all his sons were slain by their uncle; only one escaping from the hands of Saphadin their uncle. It is an old saying that tyrant princes very rarely grow old, on account of the various dangers in which they are involved, and how scarcely they can escape the common lot of envy and danger, and very few indeed were those who perished by their own fate or natural death. Wherefore also Saturninus in Flavius Vopiscus, when he was clothed in purple by his men, said: "Do you not know, friends, what an evil thing it is to rule? For swords and spears hang over our necks, spears threaten, darts come from all sides, the very guards are feared, the very companions are dreaded: food is not for pleasure, travel is not for authority, wars are not for judgment, arms are not for study. Add to this, that every age is criticized in rule: if someone is old, he seems unfit; if young, there is madness in him. For in that you desire me to be emperor, you drag me into the necessity of death: but I have this consolation in death, I cannot perish alone." It comes to mind what Aelian wittily relates about tyrants from the writings of Aesop: if anyone seizes a pig, it cries out, and not without reason. For since it carries neither wool nor anything of that kind, one immediately conjectures death and augurs it, knowing itself to be useful and food for those who seize it. But tyrants seem similar to pigs; who are always in suspicions and fear, knowing like pigs that their life alone is owed to all. Thus Aelian, book IX of Miscellaneous History.
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34. IN THOSE DAYS HIEL OF BETHEL BUILT JERICHO: IN ABIRAM HIS FIRSTBORN HE LAID THE FOUNDATION OF IT, AND IN SEGUB HIS YOUNGEST SON HE SET UP THE GATES OF IT: ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF THE LORD, WHICH HE HAD SPOKEN BY THE HAND OF JOSUE. — Josue, overthrowing Jericho, laid it under a curse, and cursed him who should wish to rebuild it, Jericho. In his firstborn let him lay the foundations thereof, and in his youngest son let him set up the gates thereof." Wherefore no one dared to rebuild Jericho until the times of Achab, but then Hiel dared to do so, enticed by the fertility of the place. For Jericho was most fruitful and most pleasant, and it alone produced balsam. Scripture adds this, to indicate how great was the forgetfulness of God and the prophets under the wicked idolater Achab, and how corrupted were the morals by avarice: for this spurred Hiel to rebuild Jericho against the command of Josue. Again, that by his punishment he might terrify Achab and the idolaters. For if Hiel, on account of rebuilding Jericho against the command of Josue, was punished in all his sons, much more ought Achab, who desired his Baal to be worshipped as God to the injury of God, to think himself to be punished in all his sons by God. IN ABIRAM HIS FIRSTBORN HE LAID THE FOUNDATION OF IT, AND IN SEGUB HIS YOUNGEST SON HE SET UP THE GATES OF IT, — that is to say, Hiel, laying the foundations of Jericho, immediately lost his firstborn son, named "Abiram:" then proceeding to build it, he lost the rest in order until the last, "Segub," whom he lost while setting up the gates of the city. Therefore, as much as Jericho grew, so much did the family of Hiel decrease, and so when it was perfected, this was utterly destroyed, by a wonderful pertinacity, as Rupertus says, the name of the builder sustaining it, so that he would lose everything with effect to the honor of the father. Here appears the wonderful blindness, avarice and ambition of Hiel, who, when he saw the threats of Josue being fulfilled in himself, and his sons dying one by one, nevertheless did not cease from building the city, preferring to complete it with the loss of all his sons, rather than to leave it unfinished and retain his sons in life; perhaps also he did this to please the impious Achab, and to show him that he, equally as himself, was a despiser of God and his prophets. Tropologically Eucherius: "He," says he, "who after assuming the habit of religion in the Church, returns to committing the sins which the Lord Jesus had forgiven him on the day of his baptism, and luxuriously repeats those very pomps of the devil which he himself had anathematized: when he raises up the ruins of Jericho to the truth of the Church, by which he was imbued, as it were departing from Bethel, with the dogmas of errors or the fables of the gentiles. And deservedly such a one is cursed before the Lord, and loses his firstborn in the foundation of the wicked city, and his youngest in the setting up of the gates, because he loses both the foundations of faith, from which good buildings ought to be begun, and the barriers of good action, by which he ought to have been perfected." Angelomus has the same thing word for word.
Machine translation from the Latin, not reviewed.
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… Asa, irritated, had him imprisoned (II Chron. 16, 7-10). He is probably the father of the prophet Jehu (I Kings 16, 1-7; II Chron. 19, 2; 20, 34).
… Act. 3:24; Hebr. 11:32). In the time of David: Gad (I Sam. 22:5; etc.) and Nathan (II Sam. 7:2; etc.); under Solomon: Ahijah (I Reg. 11:20; etc.); Shemaiah under Rehoboam; a "man of God" under Jeroboam; Jehu under Baasa (ibid. 12:22; 13; 16:1); Hanani under Asa; Jehu, Jahaziel, Eliezer under Jehoshaphat (II Par. 16:7-10; 19:2; 20:14, 37); Elijah (v.); Micaiah, son of Imlah (I Reg. 22:8-28); Elisha (v.); Jonah, under …
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Thersa (Heb. Tirzah; Gr. Θεραΐ)
… After residing there for six years, Omri abandoned it to go and reside in Samaria (v.), the new capital (1 Kings 15:21, 33; 16:6-23). In 743 Menahem, probably governor of T., marched against Samaria, killing the king there; having seized power, he fought the resistance, devastating the territory of Thapsa (to be …
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According to the Vulgate (I Kings 16:7), this prophet would have been killed by King Baasha himself; this is an error: in the Hebrew text, it is not Baasha who kills I., but I. who reproaches Baasha for the cruel extermination …
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Ela (Heb. 'Elâh = "Oak", "Terebinth")
ELA (Heb. 'Elâh = "Oak", "Terebinth"). - Name of several figures of the Old Testament, among them a king of Israel killed after two years by the rebel Zimri (1 Kings 16:8-14) and an Edomite prince (Gen. 36:41; 1 Chron. 1:52).
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Zamri (Heb. Zimri; LXX Zápařá)
… In order not to fall into the hands of his rival, Z. took his own life by setting fire to the royal palace of Tirzah (1 Kings 16:9-18). His rebellion remained famous (2 Kings 9:31).
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1 and 2 (3 and 4) Book of Kings
… (eight times in I Reg. and nine in II Reg.) "to do what is evil in the eyes of the Lord" (thirty times in the two books); "for the sake of David my servant" (I Reg. 13, 32, 34; 15, 4; II Reg. 8, 19; 19, 34; 20, 6); "mingens ad parietem" (I Reg. 14, 10; 16, 11; 21, 21; II Reg. 9, 8; elsewhere only in I Sam. 25, 22, 34).
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Dura-Europos (Gr. Δοῦρα Εὐρώπος)
DURA EÚROPOS - Samuel performs the rite of the anointing of David (1 Kings 16:13). Fresco of the Synagogue (3rd century).
… For this reason, from antiquity it was used in sacred worship, as in the consecration of altars, vessels and places (Gen. 28, 18; 35, 14; Ex. 30, 24 ff.; 40, 9 ff.), of priests (ibid. 29, 7 ff.; Lev. 8, 11), of kings (I Reg. 10, 1; 16, 13); in sacrifices and in the oblations of first-fruits (Lev. 2, 1 ff.; Deut. 14, 23); in the purification of lepers (Lev. 14). The Savior is called "Christ" (Anointed) by antonomasia. …
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… and drove them back definitively within their original borders (2 Sam. 5:17-25; 8:1; cf. 22:15-22; 23:9-17). From then on the P. no longer undertook major campaigns against the Israelites, but rather there were disputes over borders (cf. 1 Kings 15:27; 16:15); indeed in time the Israelites took the offensive: King Uzziah (8th century) dismantled the cities of Gath and Jabneh and built fortresses in the Philistine region (2 Chron. 26:6 …
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Amri (Hebrew 'Omri'; Septuagint 'Αμβρί)
AMRI (Hebrew 'Omri'; Septuagint 'Αμβρί). - Sixth king of Israel (884-873 B.C.), founder of the fourth dynasty, who ascended the throne in the 27th year of Asa king of Judah (I Kings 16:16-28).
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… Therefore J.'s gesture is severely condemned in Sacred Scripture as "an incentive to sin" for all Israel (1 Kings 12:30). And also afterward J. is pointed out as the one who led Israel into sin (cf. 1 Kings 15:26; 16:19, 26; 2 Kings 10:31; etc.).
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… prophets (those belonging to the so-called "schools" or congregations of the pious, directed by E. and by true prophets) and persecuted the Yahwist faithful, destroyed their altars, while she royally supported hundreds of prophets of the Phoenician deities (I Kings 16:23-34; 18:13-19; 19:14; etc.). …
… Jehu reacted violently, had the priests killed, burned the maṣṣēbhāh of Baal, and, having demolished the temple, turned it into an unclean and impure place; perhaps for this reason no trace of it has been found (1 Kings 16:23; 2 Kings 3:2; 10:18-27). Nor has the site of the royal necropolis (1 Kings 16:28; 22:37; 2 Kings 13:9; 14:16) been traced so far; however, the excavations were carried out mainly at the citadel.
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SAMARIA (Heb. Šōmērōn) Ass. - City founded in 880 B.C. by Omri (v. AMRI), sixth king of Israel, at the center of his kingdom, on the top of a hill (443 m above sea level), bought for two talents of silver from a certain Somer (1 Kings 16:24); the present-day Arab village of Sebastijjeh, 10 km northwest of Nābulus, occupies its ancient site.
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Amri (Hebrew 'Omri'; Septuagint 'Αμβρί)
Indifferent to religious matters, the policy of A. opened a wide field to the idolatrous syncretism (I Kings 16:25-26) that spread, despite the opposition of Elijah and numerous prophet-preachers, under the son of A., Ahab.
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1 and 2 (3 and 4) Book of Kings
… Non-constant elements are the indication of the age the sovereign was at the beginning of his reign (I Kings 22, 42; II Kings 14, 23); the name of the mother for the kings of Judah (II Kings 8, 26); the place of burial (I Kings 16, 28; 22, 51).
… been devoured by a wild beast! Num. 16, 30: the earth opens and swallows the guilty who "descend alive into šē'ōl; cf. Judic. 2, 10. David, Omri, Manasseh "were gathered to their fathers," but were not buried in the family tomb (I Reg. 2, 10; 16, 28; II Reg. 21, 18); the same holds for Abraham, Ishmael, Aaron and Moses.
… Jehu reacted violently, had the priests killed, burned the maṣṣēbhāh of Baal, and, having demolished the temple, turned it into an unclean and impure place; perhaps for this reason no trace of it has been found (1 Kings 16:23; 2 Kings 3:2; 10:18-27). Nor has the site of the royal necropolis (1 Kings 16:28; 22:37; 2 Kings 13:9; 14:16) been traced so far; however, the excavations were carried out mainly at the citadel.
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Achab (Hebrew «Brother of the Father»; Assyrian A-ḫa-ab-bu)
ACHAB (Hebrew «Brother of the Father»; Assyrian A-ḫa-ab-bu). - King of Israel from 875 to 853 B.C. His story is told in 1 Kings 16:29-22:40. He inherited from his father Omri a prosperous and feared kingdom. …
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Achab (Hebrew «Brother of the Father»; Assyrian A-ḫa-ab-bu)
… A. "did evil in the sight of the Lord more than all who were before him" (ibid. 16:30-33). He granted his wife the worship of the god of Tyre: Baal Melqart, to whom a temple was erected in the capital. …
Idolatry spread to such an extent as to engulf almost the whole nation (cf. 1 Kings 16:30-33). A temple in honor of
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… third successor, King Asa (1 Kings 15:12-13), the cult of A. developed in the northern kingdom of Israel, since King Ahab married Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians, who introduced into her new homeland the cult of Baal and of A. (1 Kings 16:31-33; 18:19). Jezebel's daughter, Athaliah, who became the wife of Jehoram, king of Judah, introduced anew into Jerusalem the cult of the goddess (2 Kings 8:18; 2 Chron. 24:7, 18), …
… In them are recorded 22 names of villages in the territory of Manasseh and the names of the royal stewards, and the element Ba'al is frequent, which confirms the biblical data concerning the religious conditions of the Kingdom of Israel after Omri (1 Kings 16:31-33; 2 Kings 10:18). In the northwest corner of the citadel, a large basin (10 x 5 m), partly hewn in the rock but entirely cemented, perhaps represents
… Even when the powerful rival Tyre prevailed, the name of Sidonians remained synonymous with Phoenicians (1 Kings 16:31). In the Bible S. is remembered both as a city (Judg. 1:31; 18:28; Isa. 23:2; Ezek. 27:8) and as a territory that marked the northern frontier of Canaan (Gen. 10:19) and bordered on …
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Baal (Ba'al = 'Lord, Master, Owner')
B. was worshiped on the terraces of houses (Jer. 32:29; II Kings 23:12), in temples (I Kings 16:32; II Kings 10:21-27; 11:18) and especially on the bāmōth (v. BĀMĀH); cf. Jer. 19:5; 32:35; I Kings 18:20. Around the altars the ḥammānīm were erected and human victims were also offered …
… out by Jeroboam I (v.), but unlike his father Ahab, who had openly opposed the cult of Yahweh and given free rein to idolatry, I. partially restored Yahwism, tearing down the pillar (maṣṣābḥāh) of Baal, which his father had erected (II Kings 3:2-3, cf. I Kings 16:32): a success to be ascribed to the action of the prophets Elijah and Elisha. …
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… The so-called "foundation sacrifices" cannot be proven with certainty, but neither does the Old Testament indisputably attest their existence (the exegesis of 1 Kings 16:34 is controversial). …
Jericho (Hebrew Yērīkō, Arabic Eriha)
… David's envoys stayed there until the affront done to them by the Ammonites had disappeared (II Sam. 10, 5). Around 800 B.C. a certain Hiel of Bethel rebuilt the walls of the ancient city, bringing down upon his two sons the curse foretold by Joshua (I Kings 16, 34). In the Israelite city a school of prophets flourished, often visited by Elijah and Elisha (II Kings 2, 1-22). After the population had been deported and the city plundered at the …
… Unfortunately the example of the Canaanites and other neighboring peoples sometimes dragged the Israelites into that abominable practice, as is gathered from the fact that Hiel, in the rebuilding of Jericho, immolated two of his sons (I Kings 16:34; cf. Josh. 6:26, where the misdeed is the object of execution); likewise some impious princes sacrificed human lives to Moloch in Jerusalem itself, that is, in the valley of Ben-Hinnom …
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