So Omri led the entire army of Israel up from Gibbethon to attack Tirzah, Israel’s capital.
Parallel translations
- WEB 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.
- BSB Then Omri and all the Israelites marched up from Gibbethon and besieged Tirzah.
- NKJV Then Omri and all Israel with him went up from Gibbethon, and they besieged Tirzah.
- NASB Then Omri and all Israel with him went up from Gibbethon and besieged Tirzah.
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Quick answer
Omri leads the army from Gibbethon to besiege Zimri in the capital, Tirzah.
Overview
Omri promptly marches against the usurper, laying siege to Tirzah where Zimri has barricaded himself. The decisive military action displays Omri's strength and resolve, traits that will make him a powerful king. The siege brings Zimri's brief reign to its inevitable end.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- 2 Kgs 18:9–12In the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
- Judg 9:56–57Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in killing his seventy brothers;
- Luke 19:43–44For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,
- Judg 9:50Then Abimelech went to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.
- 2 Kgs 25:1–4In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it around it.
- 2 Kgs 6:24–25After this, Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.
- Judg 9:45Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and killed the people in it. He beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.
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