1 Raja-raja 16:16-18

16:16 While deployed there, the army received this report: ¹  “Zimri has conspired against the king and assassinated him.” ²  So all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that very day in the camp. 16:17 Omri and all Israel went up from Gibbethon and besieged Tirzah. 16:18 When Zimri saw that the city was captured, he went into the fortified area of the royal palace. He set the palace on fire and died in the flames. ³ 

[16:16]  ¹ tn Heb “and the people who were encamped heard.”

[16:16]  ² tn Heb “has conspired against and also has struck down the king.”

[16:18]  ³ tn Heb “and he burned the house of the king over him with fire and he died.”