1 Kings 16:17 “Then Omri and all the Israelites marched up from Gibbethon and besiege…”

1 Kings 16:17

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Then Omri went vp from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

And Omri goeth up, and all Israel with him, from Gibbethon, and they lay siege to Tirzah.

Bible in Basic English

Then Omri went up from Gibbethon, with all the army of Israel, and they made an attack on Tirzah, shutting in the town on every side.

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Cross references

“besieged Tirzah”

Judges 9:45 Judges 9:50 2 Kings 18:9–12 2 Kings 25:1–4 Judges 9:56 Judges 9:57

Judges 9:45 · BSB

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.

Judges 9:50 · BSB

Then Abimelech went to Thebez, encamped against it, and captured it.

2 Kings 18:9–12 · BSB

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 · BSB

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 arou…

Judges 9:56 · BSB

In this way God repaid the wickedness that Abimelech had done to his father in murdering his seventy brothers.

Judges 9:57 · BSB

And God also brought all the wickedness of the men of Shechem back upon their own heads. So the curse of Jotham son of Jerubbaal came upon them.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16and the people in the camp heard that Zimri had conspired against the king and struck him down. So there in the camp that very day, all Israel proclaimed Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel.

18When Zimri saw that the city was captured, he entered the citadel of the royal palace and burned it down upon himself. So he died

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