¹⁷ Then Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed and came to ^(A)Tirzah. ^(B)As she was entering the threshold of the house, the child died.

¹⁵ In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days at Tirzah. Now the people were camped against ^(A)Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines. ¹⁶ The people who were camped heard ^[a]it said, “Zimri has conspired and has also struck down the king.” Therefore all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp. ¹⁷ Then Omri and all Israel with him went up from Gibbethon and besieged Tirzah. ¹⁸ When Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the citadel of the king’s house and burned the king’s house over him with fire, and ^(B)died,