1 Kings 16:3

16:3 So I am ready to burn up 1  Baasha and his family, and make your family 2  like the family of Jeroboam son of Nebat.

1 Kings 18:32

18:32 With the stones he constructed an altar for the Lord. 3  Around the altar he made a trench large enough to contain two seahs 4  of seed.

1 Kings 21:22

21:22 I will make your dynasty 5  like those of Jeroboam son of Nebat and Baasha son of Ahijah because you angered me and made Israel sin.’ 6 

1 tn The traditional view understands the verb בָּעַר (ba’ar) to mean “burn.” However, an alternate view takes בָּעַר (ba’ar) as a homonym meaning “sweep away” (HALOT 146 s.v. II בער). In this case one might translate, “I am ready to sweep away Baasha and his family.” Either metaphor emphasizes the thorough and destructive nature of the coming judgment.

2 tc The Old Greek, Syriac Peshitta, and some mss of the Targum have here “his house.”

3 tn Heb “and he built the stones into an altar in the name of the Lord.”

4 tn A seah was a dry measure equivalent to about seven quarts.

5 tn Heb “house.”

6 tn Heb “because of the provocation by which you angered [me], and you caused Israel to sin.”