15 In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned for seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were camped against (A)Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines. 16 And the people who were camped heard [a]it being said, “Zimri has conspired and has also struck and killed the king!” Therefore all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp. 17 Then Omri and all Israel with him went up from Gibbethon and besieged Tirzah. 18 When Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the citadel of the king’s house and burned the king’s house over himself with fire, and (B)died, 19 because of his sins which he [b]committed, doing evil in the sight of the Lord, (C)walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he committed, misleading Israel into sin. 20 (D)Now as for the rest of the acts of Zimri and his conspiracy which he [c]carried out, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 16:16 Lit saying
  2. 1 Kings 16:19 Lit sinned
  3. 1 Kings 16:20 Lit conspired

15-16 But Zimri lasted only seven days; for when the army of Israel, which was then engaged in attacking the Philistine city of Gibbethon, heard that Zimri had assassinated the king, they decided on General Omri, commander-in-chief of the army, as their new ruler. 17 So Omri led the army of Gibbethon to besiege Tirzah, Israel’s capital. 18 When Zimri saw that the city had been taken, he went into the palace and burned it over him and died in the flames. 19 For he, too, had sinned like Jeroboam; he had worshiped idols and had led the people of Israel to sin with him. 20 The rest of the story of Zimri and his treason are written in The Annals of the Kings of Israel.

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