⁹ Elah’s servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against Elah. He was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah.

¹⁰ Zimri came in and smote and killed him in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead.