1 Kings 16:15-17

New Catholic Bible

¹⁵ Zimri’s Reign. Zimri reigned in Tirzah for seven days during the twenty-seventh year of the reign of Asa, the king of Judah.

The people were camped near Gibbethon, a Philistine city. ¹⁶ When the people camped there heard, “Zimri had plotted against and killed the king,” they made Omri, the commander of the army, king over all of Israel that very day in the camp. ¹⁷ Omri and all of Israel departed from Gibbethon and they besieged Tirzah.