1 Kings 16:6
Good News Translation
Baasha died and was buried in Tirzah, and his son Elah succeeded him as king.

New Revised Standard Version
Baasha slept with his ancestors, and was buried at Tirzah; and his son Elah succeeded him.

New American Bible
Baasha rested with his ancestors; he was buried in Tirzah, and his son Elah succeeded him as king.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So Baasa slept with his fathers, and was buried in Thersa: and Ela, his son, reigned in his stead.

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So Baasa slept with his fathers, and was buried in Thersa: and Ela, his son, reigned in his stead.

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3074 B.C.

930
Baasha

1 Kings 14:20 And the days that Jeroboam reigned, were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers: and Nadab, his son, reigned in his stead.

1 Kings 15:25 But Nadab, the son of Jeroboam, reigned over Israel the second year of Asa, king of Juda: and he reigned over Israel two years.

Tirzah

1 Kings 14:17 And the wife of Jeroboam arose, and departed, and came to Thersa: and when she was coming in to the threshold of the house, the child died,

1 Kings 15:21 And when Baasa had heard this, he left off building Rama, and returned into Thersa.

Elah

1 Kings 16:8,13,14 In the six and twentieth year of Asa, king of Juda, Ela, the son of Baasa, reigned over Israel, in Thersa, two years. . . .

Context
Jehu's Prophecy Against Baasha
5But the rest of the acts of Baasa, and all that he did, and his battles, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel? 6So Baasa slept with his fathers, and was buried in Thersa: and Ela, his son, reigned in his stead.7And when the word of the Lord came in the hand of Jehu, the son of Hanani, the prophet, against Baasa, and against his house, and against all the evil that he had done before the Lord, to provoke him to anger by the works of his hands, to become as the house of Jeroboam: for this cause he slew him; that is to say, Jehu, the son of Hanani, the prophet.…
Cross References
1 Kings 14:17
And the wife of Jeroboam arose, and departed, and came to Thersa: and when she was coming in to the threshold of the house, the child died,

1 Kings 15:16
And there was war between Asa, and Baasa, king of Israel, all their days.

1 Kings 15:21
And when Baasa had heard this, he left off building Rama, and returned into Thersa.

1 Kings 16:5
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