Sinai1 Kings 16:17
American Standard Version
And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.
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1 Kings 16:17 in other translations
Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.
1 Kings 16:17 in context
- 15In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.
- 16And the people that were encamped heard say, Zimri hath conspired, and hath also smitten the king: wherefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp.
- 17And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.
- 18And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the castle of the king’s house, and burnt the king’s house over him with fire, and died,
- 19for his sins which he sinned in doing that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin.