Person
Baasha
Mentioned in 26 verses across 4 books, first in 2 Kings 9:9. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections).
In the Bible
All 1 verse in 2 Kings, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.
2 Kings
- 2 Kings 9:9
I will make the house of Ahab like the houses of Jeroboam son of Nebat and Baasha son of Ahijah.
Events
Events the dataset lists Baasha as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.
- c. 953 BCReign of Baasha
Dictionary
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.
Read Easton’s entry
Bravery, the third king of the separate kingdom of Israel, and founder of its second dynasty ([1 Kings 15](/1kgs#1Kgs.15); [16](/1kgs#1Kgs.16); 2 Chr. 16:1-6). He was the son of Ahijah of the tribe of Issachar. The city of Tirzah he made the capital of his kingdom, and there he was buried, after an eventful reign of twenty-four years (1 Kings 15:33). On account of his idolatries his family was exterminated, according to the word of the prophet Jehu (1 Kings 16:3, 4, 10-13).