Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 16:7

7 And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani, came the word of the LORD against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he killed him .

The meaning is, The Message which came from the Lord to Iehu, ver. 1, &c. was here delivered by the hand. i. e. the Ministry of Iehu, unto Baasha. Iehu did what God commanded him in this matter, though it was not without apparent hazard to himself.

i. e. Nadab; who though he be not expressed, yet is sufficiently understood: 1. By the manifest reference which these words have to the Murder committed by Baasha, which was done upon Nadab onely, ch. 15. 28. 2. By the foregoing words, the house of Ieroboam; i. e. His Posterity, which was Nadab. Quest. Why doth God punish him for doing God's Work? Answ. 1. Though God appointed, That Ieroboam's Family should be cut off; yet he did not give Baasha Commission to do it; nor had declared how, or by whom he would do it. 2. Baasha did this, not to fulfil God's Will, but his own Lusts. See on, ver. 2.

Marginal references: Chap. 15. 29. and 2 King. 10. 17.