1 Kings 16:10

10 Zimri came in and struck him down and killed him, in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead.

1 Kings 16:10 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 16:10

And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him
When in his drunken fit: and this was

in the twenty seventh year of Asa;
when Elah had not reigned two full years:

and reigned in his stead;
that is, Zimri; his reign was short indeed, but seven days, ( 1 Kings 16:15 ) .

1 Kings 16:10 In-Context

8 In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Ba'asha began to reign over Israel in Tirzah, and reigned two years.

9 But his servant Zimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him. When he was at Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah,

10 Zimri came in and struck him down and killed him, in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead.

11 When he began to reign, as soon as he had seated himself on his throne, he killed all the house of Ba'asha; he did not leave him a single male of his kinsmen or his friends.

12 Thus Zimri destroyed all the house of Ba'asha, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke against Ba'asha by Jehu the prophet,