Omri in Biblical History

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Who is Omri?
OM'RI
(servant of Jehovah). 1. An officer in the army of Israel. 1 Kgs 16:16. He was engaged in the siege of Gibbethon (which see) when he received intelligence that Zimri, another officer of the army, had assassinated the king and usurped the throne. The army, by general acclamation, made Omri king, and, raising the siege of Gibbethon, they forthwith marched to Tirzah, where Zimri resided, and captured it. Zimri set fire to the house he occupied, and was consumed. The Israelites were then divided into two parties; but after a short struggle Omri prevailed and took the throne, which he disgraced through a reign of twelve years. Omri, in the sixth year of his reign, built Samaria, which thereafter became the capital of the ten tribes. The prophet Micah, Mic 6:16, speaks of the "statutes of Omri," and denounces them. They were probably of an idolatrous character. 2. A descendant of Benjamin 1 Chr 7:8. 3. A descendant of Judah. 1 Chr 9:4. 4. Chief of the tribe of Issachar in the reign of David. 1 Chr 27:18.

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