Elah Fausset's Bible Dictionary
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1. Baasha's
son and successor on the Israelite throne (1Ki_16:8-10);
reigned little more than a year. A beacon to warn drunkards, killed by
the captain of half his chariots, Zimri, while "drinking himself drunk"
in the house of his steward Arza in Tirzah. Josephus (Ant. 8:12, section
4) says it occurred while his army and officers were absent at the siege
of Gibbethon. As Baasha conspired against his master Nadab, so Zimri
against Baasha's son; Zimri in his turn was slain by Omri. Thus
retributive justice pays transgressors in kind. 2. Father of Hoshea, last king of Israel ( 2Ki_15:30; 2Ki_17:1).3. Duke of Edom ( Gen_36:41); compare Elath on the Red Sea.4. Father of Shimei, Solomon's commissariat officer in Benjamin ( 1Ki_4:18).5. Son of Caleb ( 1Ch_4:15).6. Uzzi's son, a chief of Benjamin ( 1Ch_9:8).
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Taken from: Fausset's Bible Dictionary by Andrew Robert Fausset (1821-1910) |