15 Zimri reigned from Tirtsah for seven days in the twenty-seventh year of King Asa’s reign over Yehudah. At the time, the Israeli army were besieging the Philistine city of Gibbeton, 16 and when the army camped around the city heard that Zimri had rebelled and assassinated the king, that day all the people in the camp installed the army commander Omri as king to reign over Israel. 17 So Omri took all his warriors from Gibbeton and besieged Tirtsah. 18 As soon as Zimri realised that the city was surrounded, he went into the saferoom in the palace and set fire to the building and died in the flames 19 because he’d done what Yahweh had said was evil—following Yarave’am’s behaviour including causing Israel to sin. 20 Everything else that Zimri did, including his rebellion, is written in the book of the events of the kings of Israel.