KJV King James Version
And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.
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1 Kings 16:17
And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Then Omri and all the Israelites marched up from Gibbethon and besieged Tirzah.
WEB World English Bible
Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.
ASV American Standard Version
And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And Omri goeth up, and all Israel with him, from Gibbethon, and they lay siege to Tirzah.
Surrounding context — 1 Kings 16
14 Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
15 In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. And the people [were] encamped against Gibbethon, which [belonged] to the Philistines.
16 And the people [that were] encamped heard say, Zimri hath conspired, and hath also slain the king: wherefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp.
17 And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.
18 And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the palace of the king’s house, and burnt the king’s house over him with fire, and died,
19 For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of the LORD, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin.
20 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he wrought, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
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2 Kings 18:9-12And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which [was] the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, [that] Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.Luke 19:43-44For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,2 Kings 25:1-4And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth [day] of the month, [that] Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.2 Kings 6:24-25And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.Judges 9:45And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that [was] therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.Judges 9:56-57Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:Judges 9:50Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.
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