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But his servant
1Zimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him. When he was at Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza,
2who was over the household in Tirzah,
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Zimri came in and struck him down and killed him, in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place.
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When he began to reign, as soon as he had seated himself on his throne, he struck down
3all the house of Baasha. He
4did not leave him a single male of his relatives or his friends.
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Thus Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha,
5according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke against Baasha by
6Jehu the prophet,
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for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and which they made Israel to sin,
7provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their idols.
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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?
Zimri Reigns in Israel
15 In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the troops were encamped against
8Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines,
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and the troops who were encamped heard it said, "Zimri has conspired, and he has killed the king." Therefore all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp.
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So Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.
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And when Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the citadel of the king's house and burned the king's house over him with fire and died,
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because of his sins that he committed, doing evil in the sight of the LORD,
9walking in the way of Jeroboam, and for his sin which he committed, making Israel to sin.
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Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and the conspiracy that he made, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?