1 Kings 16 · Verse 17

1 Kings 16:17

And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.
1 Kings 16:17, King James Version

1 Kings 16:17 in other translations

BSBThen Omri and all the Israelites marched up from Gibbethon and besieged Tirzah.
WEBOmri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.
ASVAnd Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.
YLTAnd Omri goeth up, and all Israel with him, from Gibbethon, and they lay siege to Tirzah.
DARBYAnd Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.
BBEThen Omri went up from Gibbethon, with all the army of Israel, and they made an attack on Tirzah, shutting in the town on every side.
WebsterAnd Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.

What does 1 Kings 16:17 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Kings 16:15-18

15-18. did Zimri reign seven days--The news of his conspiracy soon spread, and the army having proclaimed their general, Omri, king, that officer immediately raised the siege at Gibbethon and marched directly against the capital in which the usurper had established himself. Zimri soon saw that he was not in circumstances to hold out against all the forces of the kingdom; so, shutting himself up in the palace, he set…

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Kings 16:15-28

When men forsake God, they will be left to plague one another. Proud aspiring men ruin one another. Omri struggled with Tibni some years. Though we do not always understand the rules by which God governs nations and individuals in his providence, we may learn useful lessons from the history before us. When tyrants succeed each other, and massacres, conspiracies, and civil wars, we may be sure the Lord has a…

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1 Kings 16:17 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיַּעֲלֶ֥הvai.ya.'a.Lehand he went upH5927
עָמְרִ֛י'a.me.RiOmriH6018
וְכָל\־ve.kholand allH3605
יִשְׂרָאֵ֥לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478
עִמּ֖וֹi.Mowith himH5973
מִֽגִּבְּת֑וֹןmi.gi.be.Tonfrom GibbethonH1405
וַיָּצֻ֖רוּvai.ya.Tzu.ruand they laid siegeH6696
עַל\־'al-onH5921
תִּרְצָֽה\׃tir.TzahTirzahH8656

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 1 Kings 16:17

  • 2 Kings 6:24-25

    And it came to pass after this, that Ben–hadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria. And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass’s head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.

  • Judges 9:45

    And 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.

  • Luke 19:43-44

    For 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, And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

  • Judges 9:50

    Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.

  • Judges 9:56-57

    Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren: And all the evil of the men of Shechem did God render upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.

  • 2 Kings 18:9-12

    And 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. And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken. And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes: Because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.

  • 2 Kings 25:1-4

    And 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. And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land. And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king’s garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
besieged Tirzah.
Jud 9:45,50,56,57; 2Ki 6:24,25; 18:9-12; 25:1-4; Lu 19:43,44

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Context

  • 1 Kings 16:16

    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.

  • 1 Kings 16:17

    And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.

  • 1 Kings 16:18

    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,

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1 Kings 16:17 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y subió Omri de Gibbethón, y con él todo Israel, y cercaron á Thirsa.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et Omri et tout Israël avec lui montèrent de Guibbethon, et mirent le siège devant Thirtsa.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und Omri, und ganz Israel mit ihm, zog von Gibbethon hinauf, und sie belagerten Tirza.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Ascendit ergo Amri, et omnis Israël cum eo, de Gebbethon, et obsidebant Thersa.