1 Kings 16:14
Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
The verse belongs to the history of the division of the kingdom under Rehoboam and Jeroboam told in 1 Kings 12 to 16, listing Elah as one of the kings of Israel after the division. In that succession Elah follows Nadab and Baasha and comes before Zimri, Omri and Ahab, at the time when Abijah and Asa reigned in Judah and there was war and strife between the two divisions. Baasha had gained the throne by slaying Nadab, who reigned two years and with whom the house of Jeroboam came to an end. The verse closes the account of Elah, son of Baasha, who succeeded his father after Baasha's twenty-four-year reign.
Elah's short and troubled reign lasted two years and was marked by drunkenness, ending when Zimri, his captain and one of his chief generals, slew him during a drunken debauch, and with him the house of Baasha died. Zimri reigned only seven days before Omri slew him, and from Omri sprang Ahab. The chapter places Elah's reign within the account of Israel's apostasy under its kings, reaching a climax when Ahab leads the nation further from the worship of God into the worship of Baal and Ashtoreth. It records the time of the weak king Ahab and his Baal-worshiping wife Jezebel, whose idolatry corrupted Israel and led the nation to transgress God's commandments.
It is part of the record of a great apostasy in Israel in the days of Elijah, when God also had a faithful remnant that responded to His prophet calling the people back to Jehovah's worship and obedience.