King James Version
1 Kings 16:17 in the King James Version says “And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.” — study this verse from 1 Kings chapter 16 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.”
1 Kings 16:17 · KJV
In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. And the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.
And the people that were encamped heard say, Zimri hath conspired, and hath also slain the king: wherefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp.
And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.
And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the palace of the king's house, and burnt the king's house over him with fire, and died,
For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of the LORD, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“went up”
H5927to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“and all Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
adverb or preposition, with (i.e., in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then
“with him and they besieged”
H6696to cramp, i.e., confine (in many applications, literally and figuratively, formative or hostile)
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
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