Geneva Bible Notes: 1 Kings 16

1 Kings 16:2 ^a Thus spake Jehu to Baasha in the Name of the Lord.

1 Kings 16:3 ^b Meaning, the house of Baasha.

1 Kings 16:5 ^/ Or, valiantnes.

1 Kings 16:7 ^d Meaning, Nadab Jeroboams sonne.

1 Kings 16:7 ^c That is, the Prophet did his message.

1 Kings 16:8 ^! Of Baasha, & Ela, & Zimri

1 Kings 16:9 ^e The chalde text hathe thus, Drinking til he was dronken in the temple of Arza the idole by his house in Tirgah.

1 Kings 16:12 ^f Bothe Hanani his father and he were Prophetes.

1 Kings 16:15 ^g Which siege had continued from the time of Nadab Jeroboams sonne.

1 Kings 16:16 ^! Omri

1 Kings 16:17 ^h Where Zimri kept him selfe in holde.

1 Kings 16:18 ^/ Ebr, burnt the Kings house vpon him.

1 Kings 16:21 ⁱ That is, the people which were not at the siege of Gibbethon for there they had chosen Omri.

1 Kings 16:24 ^/ Or, Shomerda.

1 Kings 16:25 ^k For suche is the nature of idolartrie, that the superstition thereof doeth daily increase, & the elder it is, the more abominable it is before God and his Church.

1 Kings 16:28 ^l He was the first King that was buryed in Samaria after that the Kings house was burne in Tirzah.

1 Kings 16:31 ^m By whose means he fel to all wicked, & strange idolatrie, & cruel persecution.

1 Kings 16:31 ^! Achab marrieth Jezebel.

1 Kings 16:34 ^/ Ebr, by the hand of Joshua.

1 Kings 16:34 ^! Jericho is buylt againe.

1 Kings 16:35 ⁿ Read {Josh. 6,26}