Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 16:2

2 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, to provoke me to anger with their sins:

Out of a low and mean Estate. See 1 Sam. 2. 8. Psal. 113. 7. Quest. How is Baasha's Exaltation to the Kingdom ascribed to God, when he got it by treachery and cruelty? Answ. Though that way or manner of Invading the Kingdom was from himself, and his own wicked heart; yet the Translation of the Kingdom from Nadab to Baasha simply considered, was from God, who by his Decree and Providence ordered it, and disposed of all occasions, and of the hearts of all the Soldiers and People, so that Baasha should have opportunity of Executing God's Judgment upon Nadab; and such success thereupon, that he should get a present and quiet Possession of the Kingdom. Nay, the very act of Baasha, to wit, the Killing of his Master Nadab, was an act of Divine Justice, foretold and appointed by God, Chap. 14. 10. And if Baasha had done this in obedience to God's Command, and with a single Design, to Execute God's Vengeance threatned against him, it had been no more a Sin, than Iehu's act in Killing his Master King Iehoram, upon the same account, 2 King. 9. But that Baasha did this, meerly to gratifie his own Pride, or Covetousness, or Malice; this was not from God, but from himself, and therefore is charged upon him as Murder here, ver. 7.

See on 1 King. 14. 9.