4. Dogs will eat the bodies of your relatives who die in town, and vultures will eat the bodies of those who die in the country.
5-7. Baasha made the Lord very angry, and that's why the Lord gave Jehu this message for Baasha and his family. Baasha constantly disobeyed the Lord by following Jeroboam's sinful example—but even worse, he killed everyone in Jeroboam's family!Everything else Baasha did while he was king, including his brave deeds, is written in The History of the Kings of Israel. Baasha died and was buried in Tirzah, and his son Elah became king.
8. Elah son of Baasha became king of Israel after Asa had been king of Judah for twenty-five years, and he ruled from Tirzah for two years.
9. Zimri commanded half of Elah's chariots, and he made plans to kill Elah.One day, Elah was in Tirzah, getting drunk at the home of Arza, his prime minister,