1 Kings 15:29

And it cams to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed [Same expression in Joshua 11:14 ; cf. Deuteronomy 20:16 . Males and females alike were destroyed; see 1 Kings 14:11 ], until he had destroyed him according unto the saying of the Lord, which he spake by his servant AhiJah the Shilonite [ 1 Kings 14:10 . It is not implied that it was because of this prophecy that Baasha exterminated the house of Jeroboam. It is probable that, so far from setting himself to fulfil it, he knew nothing about it, and, as he thought, merely took effectual measures for his own security. His seat could never be safe, so long as one of Jeroboam's house survived. Grotius aptly cites, with reference to these wholesale murders, the saying, ὃς πατέρα κτείνας υἱοὺς κατέλιπε ]: