Zimri (captain of half the chariots)
시므리 (병거 절반의 장관)
Named at 1 Kings 16:9 as Elah’s servant, “captain of half his chariots”. 16:9–10 say that he conspired against Elah while Elah was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, and that Zimri went in and struck him and killed him, and reigned in his place; 16:11–12, that when he began to reign he attacked all the house of Baasha, and that Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha. 16:15 says, “In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah”, and 16:18, “When Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the fortified part of the king’s house and burned the king’s house over him with fire, and died”. 16:20 names “the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he committed”. The Korean Revised Version reads 왕궁 위소 where WEB reads “the fortified part of the king’s house”.
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- 1KI 16:8–14, engwebp
8In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha began to reign over Israel in Tirzah for two years.
9His servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah;
10and Zimri went in and struck him and killed him in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place.
11When he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, he attacked all the house of Baasha. He didn’t leave him a single one who urinates on a wall among his relatives or his friends.
12Thus Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha, according to the LORD’s word which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,
13for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and with which they made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.
14Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
- 1KI 16:15–20, engwebp
15In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.
16The people who were encamped heard that Zimri had conspired, and had also killed the king. Therefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp.
17Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.
18When Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the fortified part of the king’s house and burned the king’s house over him with fire, and died,
19for his sins which he sinned in doing that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did to make Israel to sin.
20Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he committed, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
- 2KI 9:30–37, engwebp
30When Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and adorned her head, and looked out at the window.
31As Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, “Do you come in peace, Zimri, you murderer of your master?”
32He lifted up his face to the window, and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked out at him.
33He said, “Throw her down!” So they threw her down; and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses. Then he trampled her under foot.
34When he had come in, he ate and drank. Then he said, “See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king’s daughter.”
35They went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull, the feet, and the palms of her hands.
36Therefore they came back, and told him. He said, “This is the LORD’s word, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘The dogs will eat the flesh of Jezebel on the plot of Jezreel,
37and the body of Jezebel will be as dung on the surface of the field on Jezreel’s land, so that they won’t say, “This is Jezebel.”’”
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His servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah;
In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.
The people who were encamped heard that Zimri had conspired, and had also killed the king. Therefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp.
When Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the fortified part of the king’s house and burned the king’s house over him with fire, and died,
Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he committed, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
As Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, “Do you come in peace, Zimri, you murderer of your master?”
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Current wording: Named at 1 Kings 16:9 as Elah’s servant, “captain of half his chariots”. 16:9–10 say that he conspired against Elah while Elah was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, and that Zimri went in and struck him and killed him, and reigned in his place; 16:11–12, that when he began to reign he attacked all the house of Baasha, and that Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha. 16:15 says, “In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah”, and 16:18, “When Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the fortified part of the king’s house and burned the king’s house over him with fire, and died”. 16:20 names “the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he committed”. The Korean Revised Version reads 왕궁 위소 where WEB reads “the fortified part of the king’s house”.
Cited evidence: 1KI 16:8–14, engwebp / 1KI 16:15–20, engwebp / 2KI 9:30–37, engwebp
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