1 Kings 16:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

In 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 15:21 : 21 And Baasha, hearing of it, put a stop to the building of Ramah, and was living in Tirzah.
  • 1 Kgs 16:8 : 8 In 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.
  • 1 Kgs 16:29 : 29 In the thirty-eighth year that Asa was king of Judah, Ahab, the son of Omri, became king over Israel; and Ahab was king in Samaria for twenty-two years.
  • 2 Chr 22:2 : 2 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri.

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  • 1 Kgs 16:24-29
    6 verses
    82%

    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.

    29In the thirty-eighth year that Asa was king of Judah, Ahab, the son of Omri, became king over Israel; and Ahab was king in Samaria for twenty-two years.

  • 1 Kgs 16:15-18
    4 verses
    81%

    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.

    17Then 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.

    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,

  • 1 Kgs 16:8-10
    3 verses
    78%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 16:20-22
    3 verses
    78%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 15:33
    76%

    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 3:1
    74%

    1And Jehoram, the son of Ahab, became king over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of the rule of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah; and he was king for twelve years.

  • 2 Kgs 13:10
    73%

    10In the thirty-seventh year of the rule of Joash, king of Judah, Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for sixteen years.

  • 2 Kgs 15:17
    73%

    17In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah, king of Judah, Menahem, the son of Gadi, became king over Israel, and was ruling in Samaria for ten years.

  • 2 Kgs 14:23
    72%

    23In the fifteenth year of the rule of Amaziah, son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel, became king in Samaria, ruling for forty-one years.

  • 1 Kgs 15:9
    72%

    9In the twentieth year that Jeroboam was king of Israel, Asa became king over Judah.

  • 2 Kgs 13:1
    71%

    1In the twenty-third year of Joash, the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for seventeen years.

  • 2 Kgs 15:1
    71%

    1In the twenty-seventh year of the rule of Jeroboam, king of Israel, Azariah, son of Amaziah, became king of Judah.

  • 2 Kgs 17:1
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    1In the twelfth year of Ahaz, king of Judah, Hoshea, the son of Elah, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for nine years.

  • 1 Kgs 22:51
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    51Ahaziah, the son of Ahab, became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of the rule of Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, and he was king over Israel for two years.

  • 2 Kgs 8:25-26
    2 verses
    71%

    25In the twelfth year that Joram, the son of Ahab, was king of Israel, Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, became king;

    26Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri, king of Israel.

  • Josh 12:24
    71%

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

  • 2 Kgs 15:8
    70%

    8In the thirty-eighth year of Azaliah, king of Judah, Zechariah, son of Jeroboam, was king over Israel for six months.

  • 2 Chr 16:1
    69%

    1In the thirty-sixth year of the rule of Asa, Baasha, king of Israel, went up against Judah, building Ramah so that no one was able to go out or in to Asa, king of Judah.

  • 2 Chr 21:5
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    5Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for eight years.

  • 2 Kgs 8:16-17
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    69%

    16In the fifth year of Joram, the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Jehoram, the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, became king.

    17He was thirty-two years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for eight years.

  • 2 Kgs 15:13-14
    2 verses
    69%

    13Shallum, the son of Jabesh, became king in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah, king of Judah; and he was ruling in Samaria for the space of one month.

    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.

  • 2 Chr 13:1
    69%

    1In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah became king over Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 15:25
    69%

    25Nadab, the son of Jeroboam, became king over Israel in the second year that Asa was king of Judah; and he was king of Israel for two years.

  • 2 Chr 27:8
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    8He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for sixteen years.

  • 2 Kgs 9:29
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    29(In the eleventh year of the rule of Joram, the son of Ahab, Ahaziah became king over Judah.)

  • 2 Kgs 15:23
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    23In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah, the son of Menahem, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for two years.

  • 1 Kgs 22:41
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    41And Jehoshaphat, the son of Asa, became king over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab's rule over Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 16:1
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    1In the seventeenth year of Pekah, the son of Remaliah, Ahaz, the son of Jotham, became king of Judah.

  • 2 Kgs 15:32
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    32In the second year of Pekah, the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, Jotham, the son of Uzziah, became king of Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 15:1
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    1Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, Abijam became king over Judah.

  • 2 Kgs 15:27
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    27In the fifty-second year of Azariah, king of Judah, Pekah, the son of Remaliah, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for twenty years.

  • 2 Chr 34:1
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    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 Sam 5:5
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  • 2 Kgs 10:36
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