9And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah.
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And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.
And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house.(Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly:
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. …
And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:
And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-14)Here is, I. The ruin of the family of Baasha foretold. He was a man likely enough to have raised and established his family—active, politic, and daring; but he was an idolater, and this brought destruction upon his family. 1. God sent him warning of it before. (1.) That, if he were thereby wrought upon to repent and reform, the ruin might be prevented; for God threatens, that he may not strike, as…
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