The Story Of The Chosen People (Yesterday's Classics) - Plot & Excerpts
Another punishment, therefore, soon befell him; for he lost his favorite son, the only good member of his family, and the one upon whom rested his greatest hopes. Then, after a reign of twenty-two years, Jeroboam himself died, leaving the kingdom of Israel to be ruled by his son Nadab. But as this new ruler led a bad life, he was killed two years later by one of his own captains during a war with the Philistines. To get the crown, this captain, whose name was Baasha, killed all the other members of the royal family. Thus, by a wholesale murder, he became the third king of Israel, and during his reign of twenty-four years, he followed all the evil ways of the kings who went before him. He was reproved for his sins and idolatries by a prophet of the Lord, and was punished by a war with Judah, and one with the King of Syria, who marched into his kingdom and took several of his cities. Baasha's son Elah was murdered at the end of two years by Zimri, the commander of his chariots, who also killed all the other members of the royal family.
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