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1 Kings 16:17
17So Omri and all Israel's army left Gibbethon and they went to attack Tirzah.
1 Kings 16:17 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.
- New International Version (NIV)Then Omri and all the Israelites with him withdrew from Gibbethon and laid siege to Tirzah.
- English Standard Version (ESV)So Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Then Omri and all Israel with him went up from Gibbethon, and they besieged Tirzah.
Context of 1 Kings 16:17
15When Asa had been king of Judah for 27 years, Zimri became king of Israel. He ruled as king in Tirzah for seven days. When Zimri killed King Elah, Israel's army was attacking a Philistine town called Gibbethon. 16The army received this message: ‘Zimri has turned against the king and he has killed King Elah.’ Omri was the officer who led Israel's army. That day, Omri's soldiers decided to make Omri the king of Israel, while they were in their camp at Gibbethon. So Omri and all Israel's army left Gibbethon and they went to attack Tirzah. 18Zimri saw that Omri had taken power over the city. So he went into the strong buildings of the king's palace. He lit a fire to burn the palace all around him. Zimri himself died in the fire. 19This happened because of the sins that he had done. He did things that the Lord says are evil. He did the same bad things that Jeroboam had done. He also caused the Israelites to continue doing bad things.
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וַיַּעֲלֶ֥ה עָמְרִ֛י וְכָל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֥ל עִמּ֖וֹ מִֽגִּבְּת֑וֹן וַיָּצֻ֖רוּ עַל־תִּרְצָֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for 1 Kings 16:17
- Judges 9:45Abimelech attacked the city all that day. He took the city and he killed all the people who lived there. Then he destroyed the city. He put salt all over it as a curse.
- 2 Kings 6:24But later, King Ben-Hadad of Syria sent his whole army to attack Samaria. His soldiers made their camp all around the city.
- 2 Kings 18:9When Hezekiah had been king for four years, Shalmaneser, the king of Assyria, took his army to attack Samaria. That was when Hoshea had been king of Israel for seven years. The Assyrian army made their camp around the city of Samaria.
- 2 Kings 25:1Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, marched with all his army to attack Jerusalem. He arrived on the 10th day of the 10th month, in the 9th year when Zedekiah had ruled Judah. His soldiers made their camp all around the city. They built heaps of earth all around Jerusalem's walls.
- Luke 19:43As a result, days of trouble will come to you. Your enemies will build a wall round you. They will shut you in completely, and they will not let you leave.
Commentaries on 1 Kings 16:17
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 17Went up - The expression “went up” marks accurately the ascent of the army from the Shephelah, where Gibbethon was situated Joshua 19:44, to the hill country of Israel, on the edge of which Tirzah stood 1 Kings 14:17.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-28Verses 15-28 When men forsake God, they will be left to plague one another. Proud aspiring men ruin one another. Omri struggled with Tibni some years. Though we do not always understand the rules by which God governs nations and individuals in his providence, we may learn useful lessons from the history before us. When tyrants succeed each other, and massacres, conspiracies, and civil wars, we may be sure the Lord has a controversy with the people for…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 15-17Even though Zimri led half of the royal chariots (1 Kings 16:9), he stayed in Tirzah instead of joining the army attacking Gibbethon. The armed forces did not respect him; they viewed his actions as treason and chose their commander, Omri, as the new king of Israel.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 15-1815-18. did Zimri reign seven days--The news of his conspiracy soon spread, and the army having proclaimed their general, Omri, king, that officer immediately raised the siege at Gibbethon and marched directly against the capital in which the usurper had established himself. Zimri soon saw that he was not in circumstances to hold out against all the forces of the kingdom; so, shutting himself up in the palace, he set it on fire, and, like Sardanapalus…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Kings 16
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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