1 Kings 16:6
So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in his stead.
1 Kings 16:6 in other translations
| BSB | And Baasha rested with his fathers and was buried in Tirzah, and his son Elah reigned in his place. |
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| WEB | Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah; and Elah his son reigned in his place. |
| ASV | And Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah; and Elah his son reigned in his stead. |
| YLT | And Baasha lieth with his fathers, and is buried in Tirzah, and Elah his son reigneth in his stead. |
| DARBY | And Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah; and Elah his son reigned in his stead. |
| BBE | And Baasha went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth at Tirzah; and Elah his son became king in his place. |
| Webster | So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in his stead. |
What does 1 Kings 16:6 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Kings 16:1-14
This chapter relates wholly to the kingdom of Israel, and the revolutions of that kingdom. God calls Israel his people still, though wretchedly corrupted. Jehu foretells the same destruction to come upon Baasha's family, which that king had been employed to bring upon the family of Jeroboam. Those who resemble others in their sins, may expect to resemble them in the plagues they suffer, especially those who seem…
1 Kings 16:6 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 1 Kings 16:6
- 1 Kings 14:17
And Jeroboam’s wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;
- 1 Kings 15:21
And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
- 1 Kings 15:25
And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years.
- 1 Kings 16:8
In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two years.
- 1 Kings 16:13-14
For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the Lord God of Israel to anger with their vanities. Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
- 1 Kings 14:20
And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
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Context
- 1 Kings 16:5
Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
- 1 Kings 16:6
So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in his stead.
- 1 Kings 16:7
And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of the Lord against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the Lord, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he killed him.
1 Kings 16:6 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y durmió Baasa con sus padres, y fué sepultado en Thirsa; y reinó en su lugar Ela su hijo. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et Baësha s’endormit avec ses pères, et il fut enterré à Thirtsa; et Éla, son fils, régna à sa place. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und Baesa legte sich zu seinen Vätern, und er wurde begraben zu Tirza. Und Ela, sein Sohn, ward König an seiner Statt. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Dormivit ergo Baasa cum patribus suis, sepultusque est in Thersa: et regnavit Ela filius ejus pro eo. |