STORY OF NADAB and BAASHA

NADAB


Nadab is the first of Jeroboam’s 18 successors as kings of the northern tribe kingdom of Israel. Every one of these kings did evil in God’s sight and walked in the way of Jeroboam 







Nadab became king of Northern Israel in the second year of Asa , king of Judah
but in the second year of his reign he declared war against the Philistim in Gibbethon but he was assasinated by the captain of the army of Baasha






BAASHA



                                   jehu



Jehu the son of Hanani rebelled against King Baasha, saying, Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee prince over My people Israel, and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and hast made My people Israel to sin, provoking Me to anger with their sins; behold, I will take away Baasha and his house, and will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.” 1 Kings 16:1-3

Although God had dealt with the house of Jeroboam in severest judgment, this did not change the hearts of the people. Baasha of the tribe of Issachar had been God’s instrument to smite “all the house of Jeroboam; he left to Jeroboam none that breathed; until he had destroyed him…because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and wherewith he made Israel to sin” (1 Ki. 15:29-30). Israel had turned away from the Lord. But the Lord did not write them off. Though rebellious and wayward, they were still His people. Many years later He uses the prophet Hosea to express His feelings and detail His dealings with them in touching manner. “How shall I give thee over, Ephraim? How shall I deliver thee up, Israel,” He laments (Hos. 11:8). He goes back to Israel’s earliest history, to Jacob’s struggling with Esau in their mother’s womb and his wrestling with God at Peniel (Hos. 12:3-4). Again and again He had been provoked to anger with His people’s sins. Yet they were His people. He still loved them. Baasha, God’s instrument of judgment to exterminate the house of Jeroboam,