^{28 Ref} In the third year of the rule of Asa, king of Judah, Baasha put him to death, and became king in his place.

^{29 Ref} And straight away when he became king, he sent destruction on all the offspring of Jeroboam; there was not one living person of all the family of Jeroboam whom he did not put to death, so the word of the Lord, which he said by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite, came about;