8In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha became king over Israel in Tirzah; he reigned two years.9His servant Zimri, commander of half the chariotry, conspired against him while he was in Tirzah drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the house in Tirzah.10Zimri came and struck him and put him to death in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and he reigned in his place.11When he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, he struck down all the house of Baasha; he did not leave him a single one urinating against a wall, nor his kinsman-redeemers nor his friend.12Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha according to the word of the LORD that he spoke to Baasha by the hand of Jehu the prophet.13On account of all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and by which they caused Israel to sin, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.14Now the rest of the acts of Elah and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel?