World English Bible
1 Kings 16:2
“Because I exalted you out of the dust, and made you prince over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;”
Verse in context — 1 Kings 16
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The word of Yahweh came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
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Because I exalted you out of the dust, and made you prince over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;
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behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house; and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
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The dogs will eat Baasha's descendants who die in the city; and he who dies of his in the field the birds of the sky will eat.
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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