- verses
- 26
- first named
- 1 Kings 15:16
- last named
- Jeremiah 41:9
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- tribe
- Israel
Description
Who was Baasha?
Baasha was the third king of the northern kingdom of Israel, ruling for 24 years (1Ki.15.33). He came to power by assassinating Nadab, the son of Jeroboam, and then proceeded to kill off all of Jeroboam's family (1Ki.15.27-29). Despite this, Baasha continued in the sinful ways of Jeroboam (1Ki.15.34). He engaged in warfare with Asa, king of Judah, who bribed Ben-hadad of Syria to attack Israel (1Ki.15.16-22; 2Ch.16.1-6). The prophet Jehu pronounced judgment on Baasha's dynasty, predicting its downfall (1Ki.16.1-4). After Baasha's death, his son Elah became king (1Ki.16.6). Years later, Baasha's sins were remembered alongside those of other wicked kings (1Ki.21.22; 2Ki.9.9). Jer.41.9 mentions a pit made by Baasha during his war with Asa, which was later used to dispose of bodies.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The 10 best-attested of 12 are drawn. All 12 are listed below.
Child of
- Ahijahregistry1 Kings 15:271 Kings 15:33
Father of
Stands in the same events as
- Asa4 events
- Tirzah3 events
- Asa’s reign3 events
- Nadab3 events
- Israel2 events
- Judah2 events
- Building2 events
- Ramah2 events
- Elah2 events
- Jeroboam1 event
- Bird1 event
- Withdrawal1 event
and 5 more, ordered by how many events they share.
Places
Where this happens
The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.
The pattern
Where Baasha is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
26 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. Named in 1 Kings (20), 2 Kings (1), 2 Chronicles (4) and Jeremiah (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 26, across 4 books. The name is written 28 times in them.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- 1 Kings 15Baasha struck down Nadab at Gibbethon, destroyed Jeroboam’s household, fortified Ramah, and reigned over Israel for twenty-four years.
- 1 Kings 16Baasha ruled Israel, struck down Jeroboam’s house, and was condemned for the evil he had done.
- 2 Chronicles 16Baasha fortified Ramah against Judah, then abandoned the work when Ben-hadad attacked Israel’s cities.
Sources