This document is about Zimri (King of Northern Israel). For other homonyms, please refer to the Zimri document. Zimri was the 5th king of the Northern Kingdom of Israel. He was a commander under King Elah, then rebelled and became king, but was killed after only 7 days. [See Genealogy of the Kingdom of Israel] King Elah (King of Northern Israel) was disciplined by God for the sin of idolatry, and that was Zimri's rebellion. Zimri usurped the throne and annihilated all the descendants of Baasha, and even after becoming king, he continued to commit idolatry, which was a sin in the eyes of God. Because of this, Omri, a commander of the army who was in the Gibbethon region for a battle against the Philistines at the time, turned his army back and attacked the royal palace. When Zimri's defeat was certain, he set fire to the royal palace and died in it.
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.
훗날 이 오므리 왕조의 마지막 왕인 요람때에 당시 군대 장수였던 예후가 반란을 일으켜 쳐들어오자 요람왕의 어머니인 이세벨이 예후를 가리켜 이 시므리라 비방하였다.
2 Kings 9:30As Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, “Do you come in peace, Zimri, you murderer of your master?”2 Kings 9:31He lifted up his face to the window, and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked out at him.