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    4 others in the registry answer to the name Zimri. Every Zimri in the Bible

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    Zimri

    זִמְרִי

    Zimri, a commander of half of Israel's chariots, became king after assassinating Elah, but his reign lasted only seven days.

    verses
    8
    first named
    1 Kings 16:9
    last named
    2 Kings 9:31
    period
    Divided Monarchy
    tribe
    Israel

    Description

    Who was Zimri?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Zimri was a short-lived king of Israel who reigned for only seven days. He was originally a commander of half of the chariots in the army of Elah, king of Israel. While Elah was drinking himself into a stupor at the house of Arza, his steward, Zimri conspired against him and assassinated him. Zimri then proclaimed himself king and killed all the members of Elah's family, fulfilling the prophecy against the house of Baasha, Elah's father. However, when the army of Israel, which was besieging Gibbethon, heard of Zimri's actions, they proclaimed Omri, the commander of the army, as king. Omri marched to Tirzah, the capital city, and besieged it. When Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the citadel of the king's house and set it on fire, killing himself. Zimri's brief reign was marked by treachery and violence, and he is remembered as one of the wicked kings of Israel. The story of Zimri's rise and fall illustrates the political instability and moral decline that characterized the northern kingdom of Israel during this period.

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    How the graph connects Zimri10 of 12 entities the graph connects to Zimri, in one group: events 10. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.Judah1 event · 1,023 versesSin1 event · 240 versesEvil1 event · 134 versesWriting1 event · 103 versesJeroboam1 event · 81 versesAsa1 event · 53 versesMale1 event · 29 versesTirzah1 event · 13 versesElah3 events · 4 versesWord of Baasha and Baasha House1 event · 3 versesZimri

    The 10 best-attested of 12 are drawn. All 12 are listed below.

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    Where this happens

    The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

    Where the story of Zimri happensThe one place the claims about Zimri reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Tirzah. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Zimri there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Tirzah
    Divided MonarchyThe one place the claims about Zimri reach

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    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 8, across 2 books.

    1. 1 Kings7 verses

      16:916:1016:1216:1516:1616:1816:20

    2. 2 Kings1 verse

      9:31

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via Zimri’s killing of Elah and Baasha House and Zimri’s reignElahSon of Baasha, king of Israelvia Zimri’s reignReignReign is a concept gathering 158 labelled instances in the text.via Zimri’s reignTirzahCanaanite city that became the capital of Israelvia Zimri’s killing of Elah and Baasha HouseAsaKing of Judah, son of Abijah; father of Jehoshaphatvia Zimri’s killing of Elah and Baasha HouseJudahIsraelite tribe, kingdom, and provincevia Zimri’s killing of Elah and Baasha HouseKillingKilling is a concept gathering 151 labelled instances in the text.

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