1 Kings 16:15-20

Evangelical Heritage Version

Zimri King of Israel

¹⁵ In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned as king in Tirzah for seven days. The army was laying siege to Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines. ¹⁶ The army which was laying siege heard the report that Zimri had conspired against the king and had already struck him down. So in the camp on that day all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel. ¹⁷ Then Omri and all Israel went up from Gibbethon and laid siege to Tirzah. ¹⁸ When Zimri saw that the city had fallen, he went into the fortified part of the palace, and he burned it down on himself. So he died ¹⁹ because of the sin he committed by doing evil in the eyes of the Lord by walking in the ways of Jeroboam and in the sin which he had caused Israel to commit. ²⁰ As for the rest of Zimri’s acts and the conspiracy he led, are they not written in the annals of the kings of Israel?