1 Kings 16:24
And he bought the mount Samaria, of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the mount, and called the name of the city which he had built, after the name of Shemer, the Lord of the mount, Samaria.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
25And 'Omri did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, and did worse than all that were before him.
Cross References
1 Kings 16:28And 'Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Achab his son became king in his stead.
1 Kings 18:2And Elijah went to show himself unto Achab; and the famine was grievous in Samaria.
1 Kings 22:37So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.
2 Kings 17:6In the ninth year of Hoshea' did the king of Assyria capture Samaria, and he led Israel away as exiles into Assyria, and settled them in Chalach and in Chabor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of Media.
Amos 6:1Woe to those that are free from care in Zion, and that are in safety on the mount of Samaria, who are named the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 16:16-29
Zimri's Death; Reign of Omri. ( b. c. 929.) 15 In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. And the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines. 16 And the people that were encamped heard say, Zimri hath conspired, and hath also slain the king: wherefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp. 17 And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah. 18 And it came… Read the whole commentary →