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Zimri
Sign in to saveking of Israel, with a reign of seven days; chariot commander who murdered king Elah, and succeeded him, but was overthrown by the army
Key facts
- Reign
- 885 BCE
- Predecessor
- Elah
- Successor
- Tibni and Omri
- Died
- 885 BC
- House
- House of Zimri
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Israel
- Place of death
- Tirzah
- Occupation
- sovereign
- Image
- Weltchronik Fulda Aa88 326v detail.jpg
- Convicted of
- regicide
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- different from
- Zimri
- Commons category
- Zimri (king)
- manner of death
- Suicide
- date of birth
- 1000-01-01
- date of death
- 0873-00-00
- cause of death
- self-immolation
- present in work
- 1 Kings 16
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Zimri (Hebrew: זִמְרִי, Zīmrī, lit. 'praiseworthy', also transliterated as Zambri due to a Greek corruption of Omri), was the fifth king of Israel. His reign lasted only seven days. William F. Albright has dated his reign to 876 BCE, while E. R. Thiele offers the date 885 BCE. His story is told in 1 Kings, Chapter 16.
Ancestry
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zimri” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.