A reading from the Book of First Kings.

And the word of the Lord came to Jehu, the son of Hanani, against Bayeshah, saying,

Since I exalted you out of the dust and made you leader over my people Israel,

and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made my people Israel to sin,

provoking me to anger with their sins.

Behold, I will utterly sweep away

Bayeshah in his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat.

Anyone belonging to Bayesha who dies in the city, the dogs shall eat, and anyone of his who dies

in the field, the birds of the heaven, shall eat. Now the rest of the acts of Beyesha, and what he did in his might,

are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? And Beyesha slept with his

fathers, and was buried at Terza, and Ila his son reigned in his place. Moreover, the word of the

Lord came by the prophet Jehu, the son of Hanani, against Bayesha in his house, both because of all the

evil that he did in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger with the work of his hands,

and being like the house of Jeroboam, and also because he destroyed it.

In the 26th year of Asa king of Judah, Ila, the son of Beyesha, began to reign over Israel in Tirza, and he reigned two years. But his

servant, Zemri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him. When he was at Tirza,

drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirza. Zemri came in and

struck him down and killed him in the 27th year of Asa, King of Judah, and reigned in his

place. When he began to reign as soon as he had seated himself on his throne, he struck down

all the house of Bayeshah. He did not leave him a single male of his relatives or his friends.

Thus Zemri destroyed all the house of Bayyesha, according to the word of the Lord,

which he spoke against Beyesha by Jehu the prophet,

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