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1 Kings 16:17

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

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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This verse in 1 Kings 16

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him,.... He, and the army under him, broke up the siege of that place, and marched to Tirzah; which, according, to Bunting (c) were thirty six miles distant from each other: and they besieged Tirzah; the royal city, in which Zimri was. (c) Travels, &c. p. 162.

This site's exposition

made Omri, the captain of the host, king

on 1 Kings 16:16-18

Word reaches the camp at Gibbethon and the army crowns its own general on the spot, the instinct armies would show centuries later crowning emperors in the field. Omri marches home and besieges Tirzah; when the city falls, Zimri burns the king's house over himself rather than face capture, a death the ancient historians compare to the last king of Assyria's own end by fire. Seven days after killing Elah, the killer is gone, and Israel has had three kings inside one year.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Went up - The expression “went up” marks accurately the ascent of the army from the Shephelah, where Gibbethon was situated Jos 19:44, to the hill country of Israel, on the edge of which Tirzah stood 1Ki 14:17.

The words behind it

9 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיַּעֲלֶ֥הand he went up

    vaiyaalehH5927 →890 times

  • עָמְרִ֛יOmri

    ʾameriH6018 →18 times

  • וְכָל־and all

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֥לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • עִמּ֖וֹwith him

    imoH5973 →1050 times

  • מִֽגִּבְּת֑וֹןfrom Gibbethon

    migibetonH1405 →6 times

  • וַיָּצֻ֖רוּand they laid siege

    vaiyatzuruH6696 →38 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • תִּרְצָֽה׃Tirzah

    tirtzahH8656 →18 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

9 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Judges 9:56–57In this way God repaid the wickedness that Abimelech had done to his father in murdering his seventy brothers.2 worksJudges 9:50Then Abimelech went to Thebez, encamped against it, and captured it.2 works2 Kings 18:9–12In 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 worksLuke 19:43–44For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side.2 worksJudges 9:45And 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.2 works2 Kings 25:1–4So 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.2 works
The other 3 cross-references, with their words ▾
2 Kings 6:24–25Some time later, Ben-hadad king of Aram assembled his entire army and marched up to besiege Samaria.2 works1 Kings 15:27Then Baasha son of Ahijah of the house of Issachar conspired against Nadab, and Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon of the Philistines while Nadab and all Israel were besieging the city.2 works2 Kings 15:14Then Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah to Samaria, struck down and killed Shallum son of Jabesh, and reigned in his place.2 works

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    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.

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 3:25

      They destroyed the cities, and each man threw stones on every good field until it was covered. They stopped up every spring and cut down every good tree. Only Kir-haraseth was left with stones…

    • Deuteronomy 29:23

      All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the…

    • James 2:13

      For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

    • Ezekiel 47:11

      But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.

    • Zephaniah 2:9

      Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual…

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Kings

The Judgment of Solomon, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Judgment of Solomon, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
1 Kings: the study guide →Read 1 Kings 16 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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