1 Kings 16:17

Translations

Modern

Then Omri and all the Israelites marched up from Gibbethon and besieged Tirzah.

Traditional

And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.

Literal

And Omri went up, and all Israel with him, from Gibbethon, and they laid siege against Tirzah.

Latin

Ascendit ergo Amri, et omnis Israël cum eo, de Gebbethon, et obsidebant Thersa.

Original

Hebrew

English

Then Omri and all the Israelites marched up from Gibbethon and besieged Tirzah.

Notes

1 Kings 16:15–17

Even 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.

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Then Abimelech went to Thebez, encamped against it, and captured it.
2 Kings 6:24–25
Some time later, Ben-hadad king of Aram assembled his entire army and marched up to besiege Samaria.
2 Kings 18:9–12
In the fourth year of Hezekiah’s reign, which was the seventh year of the reign of Hoshea son of Elah over Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and besieged it.
2 Kings 25:1–4
So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it.
Judges 9:45
And all that day Abimelech fought against the city until he had captured it and killed its people. Then he demolished the city and sowed it with salt.
Luke 19:43–44
For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side.
Judges 9:56–57
In this way God repaid the wickedness that Abimelech had done to his father in murdering his seventy brothers.

People

Israel: Patriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes Omri: King of Israel; father of Ahab

Places

Gibbethon: A Levitical city in the territory of Dan Tirzah: Canaanite city that became the capital of Israel

Glossary

Ahab (King) Chronology of the Bible (Old Testament) Gibbethon Inscriptions Kings, Books of First and Second Moabite Stone Suicide Tirzah (Place) Warfare Zimri (Person)

Topics

Gibbethon: Besieged by Israel, While in Possession of Philistines Kings: Conspiracies Against: Omri Against Zimri Omri: King of Israel: Defeats his Rival, Tibni, and Establishes Himself Siege: Tirzah Sieges: Tirzah Tirzah: A City of Canaan: Becomes the Residence of the Kings of the Northern Kingdom (Israel) Zimri: King of Israel

1 Kings 16:17

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