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Bagian: Hukuman bagi Baesa

1 TUHAN menyampaikan pesan hukuman kepada Baesa melalui Nabi Yehu anak Hanani. Beginilah kata TUHAN, 2 “Dahulu kamu bukan siapa-siapa, tetapi Aku mengangkatmu menjadi pemimpin umat-Ku, Israel. Namun, kamu mengikuti dosa Yerobeam sehingga membuat umat-Ku ikut berdosa dan membangkitkan amarah-Ku. 3 Oleh sebab itu, Aku akan membinasakan kamu dan seluruh keluargamu seperti Aku memusnahkan keluarga Yerobeam. 4 Setiap orang dari keluarga Baesa yang mati di kota akan dimakan anjing, dan yang mati di padang di luar kota akan dimakan burung bangkai.” 5 Kisah selebihnya tentang Baesa, dan tindakan-tindakan yang diambilnya serta keberhasilannya, dicatat dalam kitab sejarah raja-raja Israel. 6 Kemudian Baesa meninggal dan dikuburkan di kota Tirza. Sesudah itu Ela, anak laki-lakinya, menjadi raja menggantikan dia. 7 TUHAN menyampaikan pesan hukuman atas Baesa dan keluarganya melalui Nabi Yehu. Baesa harus dihukum atas dua dosa besar. Pertama, karena dia melakukan yang jahat di mata TUHAN, yaitu mengikuti dosa Yerobeam sehingga membangkitkan murka TUHAN. Kedua, karena Baesa membantai keluarga Yerobeam.

Bagian: Ela menjadi raja Israel

8 Pada tahun kedua puluh enam masa pemerintahan Asa, raja Yehuda, Ela anak Baesa menjadi raja Israel. Dia memerintah selama dua tahun dari ibukotanya, yaitu Tirza. 9 Ela memiliki seorang komandan tentara bernama Zimri. Dia memimpin setengah dari pasukan kereta perang Israel. Zimri mengadakan persekongkolan melawan Ela. Lalu suatu hari, ketika Ela sedang minum-minum sampai mabuk di rumah Arza, kepala istana di Tirza, 10 datanglah Zimri. Zimri masuk ke rumah itu, menyerang Ela, dan membunuhnya. Ini terjadi pada tahun kedua puluh tujuh masa pemerintahan Asa, raja Yehuda. Sesudah itu Zimri mengambil alih kedudukan raja. 11 Saat Zimri mulai memerintah sebagai raja, dia membunuh semua anggota keluarga Baesa. Tidak ada seorang laki-laki pun yang dibiarkannya hidup, bahkan kerabat jauh dan kawan-kawan Baesa. 12 Dengan demikian, Zimri memusnahkan seluruh keluarga Baesa sesuai dengan hukuman TUHAN yang dinubuatkan oleh Nabi Yehu. 13 Hukuman itu diberikan karena dosa Baesa dan Ela yang menyebabkan umat Israel ikut berdosa dengan menyembah berhala-berhala sehingga membangkitkan amarah TUHAN Allah Israel. 14 Kisah selebihnya tentang Ela, termasuk tindakan-tindakan yang diambilnya, dicatat dalam kitab sejarah raja-raja Israel.

Bagian: Kekuasaan Zimri yang singkat

15 Pada tahun kedua puluh tujuh masa pemerintahan Raja Asa di kerajaan Yehuda, Zimri mulai memerintah sebagai raja Israel. Dia memerintah selama tujuh hari di ibukota Tirza. Ketika Zimri dinobatkan menjadi raja, pasukan Israel sedang berkemah mengepung kota Gibeton yang berada di wilayah Filistin. 16 Lalu sampailah kabar ke perkemahan pasukan bahwa Zimri bersekongkol melawan Raja Ela, bahkan sudah membunuhnya. Hari itu juga, seluruh pasukan Israel di tempat perkemahan mengangkat Omri, komandan mereka, menjadi raja Israel. 17 Kemudian Omri memimpin pasukannya untuk mengepung Tirza. 18 Ketika Zimri melihat bahwa Omri sudah berhasil merebut kota itu, Zimri masuk ke benteng istana raja dan membakarnya, sehingga dia pun ikut mati terbakar. 19 Hal itu terjadi karena Zimri juga melakukan apa yang jahat di mata TUHAN dengan mengikuti dosa Yerobeam yang menyebabkan rakyat Israel ikut berdosa. 20 Semua kisah tentang Zimri, termasuk persekongkolannya melawan raja, dicatat dalam kitab sejarah raja-raja Israel.

Bagian: Omri menjadi raja Israel

21 Pada waktu itu rakyat Israel terbagi menjadi dua kubu. Sebagian mendukung Tibni anak Ginat dan hendak mengangkat dia menjadi raja, sedangkan sebagian lainnya mendukung Omri. 22 Akan tetapi, pihak pendukung Omri lebih kuat daripada pendukung Tibni. Mereka berhasil membunuh Tibni. Maka Omri menjadi raja Israel. 23 Hal itu terjadi pada tahun ketiga puluh satu pemerintahan Raja Asa di Yehuda. Omri berkuasa selama dua belas tahun. Enam tahun pertama dia memerintah dari kota Tirza. 24 Omri membeli sebuah bukit dari seorang bernama Semer dengan harga tujuh puluh kilogram perak. Lalu dia membangun kota di atas bukit itu dan menamainya Samaria, sesuai dengan nama pemilik bukit tersebut. 25 Omri melakukan apa yang jahat di mata TUHAN melebihi raja-raja sebelumnya. 26 Dia mengikuti dosa Yerobeam yang mengakibatkan bangsa Israel ikut berdosa karena menyembah dewa-dewa, yaitu patung yang tidak berguna. Tentu saja itu membangkitkan murka TUHAN Allah Israel. 27 Kisah selebihnya tentang Omri, termasuk tindakan-tindakan yang diambilnya serta keberhasilannya, dicatat dalam kitab sejarah raja-raja Israel. 28 Ketika Omri meninggal dunia, dia dikuburkan di Samaria. Lalu anaknya yang bernama Ahab menggantikan sebagai raja.

Bagian: Ahab menjadi raja di Israel dan menyembah dewa Baal

29 Pada tahun ketiga puluh delapan pemerintahan Asa, raja Yehuda, Ahab anak Omri mulai memerintah sebagai raja di Israel. Dia memerintah selama dua puluh dua tahun dari Samaria, ibukota yang baru. 30 Ahab melakukan apa yang jahat di mata TUHAN melebihi raja-raja sebelum dia. 31 Seakan-akan belum cukup dia mengikuti dosa Yerobeam, Ahab juga menikahi Isebel, anak perempuan Etbaal, raja negeri Sidon, dan Ahab pun menyembah dewa Baal. 32 Dia membangun kuil pemujaan serta mezbah untuk Baal di kota Samaria. 33 Ahab juga mendirikan patung dewi Asyera. Demikianlah dia melakukan begitu banyak dosa melebihi raja-raja Israel sebelumnya hingga membangkitkan murka TUHAN Allah Israel.

Bagian: Kutukan atas kota Yeriko menjadi kenyataan

34 Pada masa pemerintahan Ahab, ada seseorang dari kota Betel yang mendirikan kembali kota Yeriko. Orang itu bernama Hiel. Ketika dia mulai membangun fondasi kota itu, anak sulungnya bernama Abiram meninggal. Dan ketika dia membangun gerbang kota, anak bungsunya bernama Segub meninggal. Semua itu terjadi sesuai dengan pesan TUHAN yang dinubuatkan oleh Yosua anak Nun.

1 Yahweh’s word came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying, 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, 3 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. 4 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.” 5 Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 6 Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah; and Elah his son reigned in his place. 7 Moreover Yahweh’s word came by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha and against his house, both because of all the evil that he did in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he struck him. 8 In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha began to reign over Israel in Tirzah for two years. 9 His servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah; 10 and Zimri went in and struck him and killed him in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place. 11 When he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, he attacked all the house of Baasha. He didn’t leave him a single one who urinates on a wall among his relatives or his friends. 12 Thus Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha, according to Yahweh’s word which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet, 13 for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and with which they made Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities. 14 Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 15 In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines. 16 The people who were encamped heard that Zimri had conspired, and had also killed the king. Therefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp. 17 Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah. 18 When Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the fortified part of the king’s house and burned the king’s house over him with fire, and died, 19 for his sins which he sinned in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did to make Israel to sin. 20 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he committed, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 21 Then the people of Israel were divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king, and half followed Omri. 22 But the people who followed Omri prevailed against the people who followed Tibni the son of Ginath; so Tibni died, and Omri reigned. 23 In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri began to reign over Israel for twelve years. He reigned six years in Tirzah. 24 He bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver; and he built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill. 25 Omri did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and dealt wickedly above all who were before him. 26 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sins with which he made Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities. 27 Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he showed, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 28 So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria; and Ahab his son reigned in his place. 29 In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel. Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years. 30 Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight above all that were before him. 31 As if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal and worshiped him. 32 He raised up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria. 33 Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did more yet to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him. 34 In his days Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho. He laid its foundation with the loss of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates with the loss of his youngest son Segub, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.