1 Kings 16:11

And it came to pass when he began to reign, as soon as he sate on his throne, that he slew all the house of Baasha [see note on 1 Kings 15:29 . The LXX . Vat. omits the rest of this verse and the first clause of 1 Kings 15:12 ]: he left him not one that pisseth against a wall [ i.e; not a boy. See 1 Kings 14:10 note], neither of [Heb. and ] his kinsfolks [The גֹּאֵל is strictly the person to whom

And this being the next of kin ( Ruth 2:12 , Ruth 2:13 ), the word came to mean near relative, kinsman, as here; cf. Ruth 2:20 . All the same, it discloses to us Zimri's object, which was to destroy the avenger of blood. And it shows (in connexion with Ruth 2:16 ) that none of Baasha's children, if he had other children, had gone to the war], nor of his friends. [Zimri went a step farther than Baasha had gone. He was not content with extirpating the royal family, but put to death the partizans of the house, all who would be likely to sympathize with Elah or to resent his murder.]