1 Kings 16:15

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In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.

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12Thus Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha), according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,

13for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned, and with which they made Israel) to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.

14Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

15In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.

16The people who were encamped heard that Zimri had conspired, and had also killed the king. Therefore all Israel) made Omri, the captain of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp.

17Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.

18When Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the fortified part of the king’s house, and burned the king’s house over him with fire, and died,

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