- ZIMRI. He was General to one half of the Cavalry of Elah King of Israel,1 when he rebelled against his King. For while this King was making merry at Tirzah, Zimri fell upon him, killed him, and usurped his Kingdom. He entirely cut off the whole Family of his Master, without sparing any of his Relations or Friends; all which he did to fulfil the Word of the Lord, as it was denounced to Baasha, the Father of Elah, by the Prophet Jehu. Zimri reigned but seven Days; for the Army of Israel, that then was besieging Gibbethon, a City of the Philistines, made their General Omri King, and came and besieged Zimri in the City of Tirzah. Zimri, seeing the City was just upon the point of being taken, burnt himself in the Palace, with all the Riches that were therein. He did Evil before the Lord, and was cut off in his Iniquity. The rest of his Actions, his Conspiracy and Tyranny, were recorded at length in the Annals of the Kings of Israel.
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1 Kings xvi. 9, 10. In the Year of the World 3075, before Christ 925, before the Vulgar Æra 929. ↩