1 Kings 16:4 meaning and explanation
Anyone belonging to Baasha who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and anyone who dies in the field will be eaten by the birds of the air.”
1 Kings 16:4, Berean Standard Bible
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These words come from the prophet Jehu son of Hanani, speaking to King Baasha of Israel, who had seized the throne by violence and kept Jeroboam's idolatry. The sentence is part of a covenant curse: a dynasty cut off so completely that its dead receive no burial.
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