17. Omri and all Israel with him marched up from Gibbethon and besieged Tirzah.
18. When Zimri saw that the city was captured, he entered the citadel of the king’s house and burned it down over him. He died
19. because of the sins he had committed, doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight by walking in the way of Jeroboam and the sin he had caused Israel to commit.
20. The rest of the acts of Zimri, with the conspiracy he carried out, are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
21. At that time the people of Israel were divided in two, half following Tibni, son of Ginath, to make him king, and half for Omri.
22. The partisans of Omri prevailed over those of Tibni, son of Ginath. Tibni died and Omri became king.
23. In the thirty-first year of Asa, king of Judah, Omri became king of Israel for twelve years; the first six of them he reigned in Tirzah.
24. He then bought the mountain of Samaria from Shemer for two silver talents and built upon the mountain the city he named Samaria, after Shemer, the former owner.
25. But Omri did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, more than any of his predecessors.
26. In every way he imitated the sinful conduct of Jeroboam, son of Nebat, and the sin he had caused Israel to commit, thus provoking the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger by their idols.
27. The rest of the acts of Omri, what he did and his valor, are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
28. Omri rested with his ancestors; he was buried in Samaria, and Ahab his son succeeded him as king.