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Now he <i>was</i> at Tirzah drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who <i>was</i> over the household at Tirzah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then Zimri went in and struck him and put him to death in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and became king in his place. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Now it happened when he became king, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he struck down all the household of Baasha; he did not leave <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>a single male—not <i>even any of</i> his kinsman redeemers or his friends. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Thus Zimri destroyed all the household of Baasha, according to the word of Yahweh, which He spoke against Baasha by the hand of Jehu the prophet, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and which they made Israel sin, provoking Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>idols. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>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? <p class="hdg">Zimri Reigns over Israel</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days at Tirzah. Now the people were camped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And the people who were camped heard <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>it said, “Zimri has conspired and has also struck down the king.” Therefore all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then Omri and all Israel with him went up from Gibbethon and besieged Tirzah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Now it happened that when Zimri saw that the city was captured, he went into the citadel of the king’s house and burned the king’s house over him with fire, and died, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>because of his sins which he sinned, doing what is evil in the sight of Yahweh, walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, making Israel sin. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Now the rest of the acts of Zimri and his conspiracy which he <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>carried out, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? <p class="hdg">Omri Reigns over Israel</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then the people of Israel were divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; the <i>other</i> half followed Omri. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But the people who followed Omri prevailed over the people who followed Tibni the son of Ginath. And Tibni died and Omri became king. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/16-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri became king over Israel <i>and reigned</i> twelve years; he reigned six years at Tirzah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/16-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And he bought the hill <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Samaria from Shemer for two <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>talents of silver; and he built on the hill, and named the city which he built <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/16-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And Omri did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and acted more wickedly than all who <i>were</i> before him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/16-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat and in his sins which he made Israel sin, provoking Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>idols. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/16-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did and his might which he <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>showed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/16-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>So Omri slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria; and Ahab his son became king in his place. <p class="hdg">Ahab Reigns over Israel</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/16-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Now Ahab the son of Omri became king over Israel in the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/16-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And Ahab the son of Omri did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh more than all who were before him. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/16-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Now it happened, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians as a wife, and went and served Baal and worshiped him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/16-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>So he erected an altar for Baal in the house of Baal which he built in Samaria. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/16-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Ahab also made the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Asherah. Thus Ahab did more to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/16-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>In his days Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho; he laid its foundations with the <i>loss of</i> Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates with the <i>loss of</i> his youngest son Segub, according to the word of Yahweh, which He spoke by the hand of Joshua the son of Nun.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">7</span> Or <i>him</i><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> Lit <i>him who urinates against the wall</i>, cf. 1 Sam 25:22, 34; 1 Kin 14:10; 21:21; 2 Kin 9:8<br><span class="fnverse">13</span> Lit <i>vanities</i><br><span class="fnverse">16</span> Lit <i>saying</i><br><span class="fnverse">20</span> Lit <i>conspired</i><br><span class="fnverse">24</span> Heb <i>Shomeron</i><br><span class="fnverse">24</span> A talent was approx. 75 lb. or 34 kg<br><span class="fnverse">24</span> Heb <i>Shomeron</i><br><span class="fnverse">26</span> Lit <i>vanities</i><br><span class="fnverse">27</span> Lit <i>did</i><br><span class="fnverse">33</span> A wooden symbol of a female deity<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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