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1 Kings 15:29
As soon as Baasha became king, he struck down the entire household of Jeroboam. He did not leave to Jeroboam anyone who breathed, but destroyed them all according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servant Ahijah the Shilonite,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Baasha acts immediately upon his accession to the throne over Israel, executing Jeroboam’s lineage. The event occurs in the third year of Asa’s reign over Judah, fulfilling a prior prophetic declaration.
The words — הִכָּה (hi.Kah) means "he struck down," and כָּל (kol) means "all." These terms emphasize the totality of the physical elimination described in the narrative.
The thread — The text explicitly links this massacre to the word spoken by Ahijah (1 Kings 14:9). A parallel pattern of dynastic eradication appears in the accounts of Jehu’s purge (2 Kings 9:7, 2 Kings 9:36).
Why it lands — The verse requires the reader to recognize that political violence here functions as the execution of divine judgment rather than mere usurpation. It demands an assessment of how prophetic words govern historical outcomes without condoning the method.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the Lord, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:
Cross-references
- 1 Kings 14:9 You have done more evil than all who came before you. You have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me, and you have flung Me behind your back.
- 2 Kings 9:7 And you are to strike down the house of your master Ahab, so that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets and the blood of all the servants of the LORD shed by the hand of Jezebel.
- 2 Kings 9:36 So they went back and told Jehu, who replied, “This is the word of the LORD, which He spoke through His servant Elijah the Tishbite: ‘On the plot of ground at Jezreel the dogs will devour the flesh of Jezebel.
- 2 Kings 10:10 Know, then, that not a word the LORD has spoken against the house of Ahab will fail, for the LORD has done what He promised through His servant Elijah.”
- 2 Kings 10:31 Yet Jehu was not careful to follow the instruction of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit.
- 2 Kings 19:25 Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.