1 Kings 16:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Judg 9:45 : 45 And all that day Abimelech was fighting against the town; and he took it, and put to death the people who were in it, and had the town pulled down and covered with salt.
  • Judg 9:50 : 50 Then Abimelech went to Thebez, and put his army in position against Thebez and took it.
  • Judg 9:56-57 : 56 In this way Abimelech was rewarded by God for the evil he had done to his father in putting his seventy brothers to death; 57 And God sent back on to the heads of the men of Shechem all the evil they had done, and the curse of Jotham, the son of Jerubbaal, came on them.
  • 2 Kgs 6:24-25 : 24 Now after this, Ben-hadad, king of Aram, got together all his army and went up to make an attack on Samaria, shutting the town in on all sides with his forces. 25 And they became very short of food in Samaria; for they kept it shut in till the price of an ass's head was eighty shekels of silver, and a small measure of doves' droppings was five shekels of silver.
  • 2 Kgs 18:9-9 : 9 Now in 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, shutting it in with his armies. 10 And at the end of three years they took it; in the sixth year of Hezekiah's rule, which was the ninth year of Hoshea, king of Israel, Samaria was taken. 11 And the king of Assyria took Israel away as prisoners into Assyria, placing them in Halah and in Habor on the river Gozan, and in the towns of the Medes; 12 Because they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord their God, but went against his agreement, even against everything ordered by Moses, the servant of the Lord, and they did not give ear to it or do it.
  • 2 Kgs 25:1-4 : 1 Now in the ninth year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came against Jerusalem with all his army and took up his position before it, building earthworks all round the town. 2 And the town was shut in by their forces till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 3 Now on the ninth day of the fourth month, the store of food in the town was almost gone, so that there was no food for the people of the land. 4 So an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight by night through the doorway between the two walls which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldaeans were stationed round the town:) and the king went by the way of the Arabah.
  • Luke 19:43-44 : 43 For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side, 44 And will make you level with the earth, and your children with you; and there will not be one stone resting on another in you, because you did not see that it was your day of mercy.

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  • 1 Kgs 16:18-28
    11 verses
    81%

    18And 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,

    19Because of his sin in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, in going in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin which he made Israel do.

    20Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and the secret design he made, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

    21Then there was a division among the people of Israel; half the people were for making Tibni, son of Ginath, king, and half were supporting Omri.

    22But the supporters of Omri overcame those who were on the side of Tibni, the son of Ginath; and death came to Tibni and to his brother Joram at that time: and Omri became king in the place of Tibni.

    23In the thirty-first year of Asa, king of Judah, Omri became king over Israel, and he was king for twelve years; for six years he was ruling in Tirzah.

    24He got the hill Samaria from Shemer for the price of two talents of silver, and he made a town there, building it on the hill and naming it Samaria, after Shemer the owner of the hill.

    25And Omri did evil in the eyes of the Lord, even worse than all those before him,

    26Copying all the evil ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and all the sins he did and made Israel do, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath by their foolish ways.

    27Now the rest of the acts which Omri did, and his great power, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

    28So Omri went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in Samaria; and Ahab his son became king in his place.

  • 1 Kgs 16:15-16
    2 verses
    80%

    15In 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.

    16And 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.

  • 1 Kgs 16:8-10
    3 verses
    71%

    8In the twenty-sixth year that Asa was king of Judah, Elah, the son of Baasha, became king of Israel in Tirzah, and he was king for two years.

    9And his servant Zimri, captain of half his war-carriages, made secret designs against him: now he was in Tirzah, drinking hard in the house of Arza, controller of the king's house in Tirzah.

    10And Zimri went in and made an attack on him and put him to death, in the twenty-seventh year that Asa was king of Judah, and made himself king in his place.

  • Josh 12:24
    70%

    24The king of Tirzah, one; all the kings together were thirty-one.

  • 1 Kgs 15:21
    69%

    21And Baasha, hearing of it, put a stop to the building of Ramah, and was living in Tirzah.

  • 2 Kgs 15:14
    69%

    14Then Menahem, the son of Gadi, went up from Tirzah and came to Samaria, and attacking Shallum, son of Jabesh, in Samaria, put him to death and made himself king in his place.

  • 1 Kgs 15:27
    68%

    27And Baasha, the son of Ahijah, of the family of Issachar, made a secret design against him, attacking him at Gibbethon, a town of the Philistines; for Nadab and the armies of Israel were making war on Gibbethon.

  • 2 Kgs 3:6
    68%

    6At that time, King Jehoram went out from Samaria and got all Israel together in fighting order.

  • 2 Kgs 17:5
    67%

    5Then the king of Assyria went through all the land and came up to Samaria, shutting it in with his forces for three years.

  • 2 Kgs 6:24
    67%

    24Now after this, Ben-hadad, king of Aram, got together all his army and went up to make an attack on Samaria, shutting the town in on all sides with his forces.

  • 1 Kgs 14:16-17
    2 verses
    67%

    16And he will give Israel up because of the sins which Jeroboam has done and made Israel do.

    17Then Jeroboam's wife got up and went away and came to Tirzah; and when she came to the doorway of the house, death came to the child.

  • Hos 10:9
    66%

    9O Israel, you have done evil from the days of Gibeah; there they took up their position, so that the fighting against the children of evil might not overtake them in Gibeah.

  • Judg 10:17
    66%

    17Then the children of Ammon came together and put their army in position in Gilead. And the children of Israel came together and put their army in position in Mizpah.

  • 2 Kgs 12:17
    66%

    17Then Hazael, king of Aram, went up against Gath and took it; and his purpose was to go up to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Kgs 16:5
    66%

    5Then Rezin, king of Aram, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to make war; and they made an attack on Ahaz, shutting him in, but were not able to overcome him.

  • 1 Kgs 16:12
    66%

    12So Zimri put to death all the family of Baasha, so that the word which the Lord said against him by the mouth of Jehu the prophet came about;

  • 1 Kgs 15:33
    66%

    33In the third year of the rule of Asa, king of Judah, Baasha, the son of Ahijah, became king over all Israel in Tirzah, and was king for twenty-four years.

  • 2 Kgs 8:21
    65%

    21Then Joram went over to Zair, with all his war-carriages; ... made an attack by night on the Edomites, whose forces were all round him, ... the captains of the war-carriages; and the people went in flight to their tents.

  • 1 Kgs 20:1
    65%

    1Now Ben-hadad, king of Aram, got all his army together, and thirty-two kings with him, and horses and carriages of war; he went up and made war on Samaria, shutting it in.

  • 1 Kgs 22:29
    65%

    29So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, went up to Ramoth-gilead.

  • Judg 20:14
    65%

    14And the children of Benjamin came together from all their towns to Gibeah, to go to war with the children of Israel.

  • Judg 9:50
    65%

    50Then Abimelech went to Thebez, and put his army in position against Thebez and took it.

  • 2 Kgs 18:9
    65%

    9Now in 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, shutting it in with his armies.

  • 2 Chr 13:4
    65%

    4And Abijah took up his position on Mount Zemaraim, in the hill-country of Ephraim, and said, Give ear to me, O Jeroboam and all Israel:

  • 2 Kgs 16:9
    65%

    9And the king of Assyria, in answer to his request, went up against Damascus and took it, and took its people away as prisoners to Kir, and put Rezin to death.

  • Judg 20:37
    65%

    37And the watchers, rushing on Gibeah and overrunning it, put all the town to the sword without mercy.

  • 2 Sam 24:7
    65%

    7And to the walled town of Tyre, and to all the towns of the Hivites and the Canaanites: and they went out to the South of Judah at Beer-sheba.

  • 2 Kgs 15:29
    65%

    29In the days of Pekah, king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, came and took Ijon and Abel-beth-maacah and Janoah and Kedesh and Hazor and Gilead and Galilee and all the land of Naphtali; and he took the people away to Assyria.

  • 2 Chr 13:19
    65%

    19And Abijah went after Jeroboam and took some of his towns, Beth-el with its small towns and Jeshanah with its small towns and Ephron with its small towns.

  • 2 Kgs 9:31
    65%

    31And when Jehu was coming into the town, she said, Is all well, O Zimri, taker of your master's life?

  • 2 Kgs 9:14
    64%

    14So Jehu, the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, made designs against Joram. (Now Joram and all the army of Israel were keeping watch on Ramoth-gilead because of Hazael, king of Aram:

  • 2 Kgs 15:16
    64%

    16Then Menahem sent destruction on Tappuah and all the people in it, and its limits, from Tirzah, because they would not let him come in; and he had all the women who were with child cut open.

  • 2 Kgs 15:10
    64%

    10And Shallum, the son of Jabesh, made a secret design against him, and, attacking him in Ibleam, put him to death and became king in his place.

  • 2 Sam 15:17
    64%

    17And the king went out, and all his servants went after him, and made a stop at the Far House.

  • Josh 10:4
    64%

    4Come up to me and give me help, and let us make an attack on Gibeon: for they have made peace with Joshua and the children of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 18:28
    64%

    28So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, went up to Ramoth-gilead.