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1. Baasha's son and successor on the Israelite throne (-10); reigned little more than a year. A beacon to warn drunkards, killed by the captain of half his chariots, Zimri, while "drinking himself drunk" in the house of his steward Arza in Tirzah. Josephus (Ant. 8:12, section 4) says it occurred while his army and officers were absent at the siege of Gibbethon. As Baasha conspired against his master Nadab, so Zimri against Baasha's son; Zimri in his turn was slain by Omri. Thus retributive justice pays transgressors in kind.
2. Father of Hoshea, last king of Israel (; ).
3. Duke of Edom (); compare Elath on the Red Sea.
4. Father of Shimei, Solomon's commissariat officer in Benjamin ().
5. Son of Caleb ().
6. Uzzi's son, a chief of Benjamin ().