This article is about Tirzah (place name). For other homonyms, please refer to the Tirzah article. Tirzah was one of the major cities in the Northern Kingdom of Israel. It appears to have served as the capital since the time of Jeroboam I.
1 Kings 14:17All Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.
바아사가 반란을 일으켜 왕이 되었을 때에 수도로 삼았다.
1 Kings 15:21Then king Asa made a proclamation to all Judah. No one was exempted. They carried away the stones of Ramah, and its timber, with which Baasha had built; and king Asa used it to build Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
1 Kings 15:33He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.
이후 오므리(북이스라엘왕)가 사마리아를 건축하기 전까지 수도였다.
1 Kings 16:6Moreover Yahweh’s word came by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha and against his house, both because of all the evil that he did in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he struck him.1 Kings 16:7In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha began to reign over Israel in Tirzah for two years.1 Kings 16:8His servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah;1 Kings 16:9and Zimri went in and struck him, and killed him, in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place.1 Kings 16:10When he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, he attacked all the house of Baasha. He didn’t leave him a single one who urinates on a wall among his relatives or his friends.1 Kings 16:11Thus Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha), according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,1 Kings 16:12for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned, and with which they made Israel) to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.1 Kings 16:13Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?1 Kings 16:14In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.1 Kings 16:15The people who were encamped heard that Zimri had conspired, and had also killed the king. Therefore all Israel) made Omri, the captain of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp.1 Kings 16:16Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.1 Kings 16:17When Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the fortified part of the king’s house, and burned the king’s house over him with fire, and died,1 Kings 16:18for his sins which he sinned in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin.1 Kings 16:19Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he committed, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?1 Kings 16:20Then the people of Israel were divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri.1 Kings 16:21But the people who followed Omri prevailed against the people who followed Tibni the son of Ginath; so Tibni died, and Omri reigned.1 Kings 16:22In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri began to reign over Israel for twelve years. He reigned six years in Tirzah.1 Kings 16:23He bought the hill Samaria) of Shemer for two talents of silver; and he built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.
이후에도 주요 군사적 요충지였기에 살룸(북이스라엘 왕)시절에도 므나헴이 이곳에 군대를 거느리고 있었고,
2 Kings 15:14Now the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.2 Kings 15:15Then Menahem attacked Tiphsah, and all who were in it, and its border areas, from Tirzah. He attacked it because they didn’t open their gates to him, and he ripped up all their women who were with child.2 Kings 15:16In the thirty ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem the son of Gadi began to reign over Israel for ten years in Samaria.