^{15 Ref} In the twenty-seventh year of Asa, king of Judah, Zimri was king for seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were attacking Gibbethon in the land of the Philistines.

^{16 Ref} And news came to the people in the tents that Zimri had made a secret design and had put the king to death: so all Israel made Omri, the captain of the army, king that day in the tents.

^{17 Ref} Then 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.

^{18 Ref} And when Zimri saw that the town was taken, he went into the inner room of the king's house, and burning the house over his head, came to his end,