1 Kings 16:9 meaning and explanation
However, while Elah was in Tirzah getting drunk in the house of Arza the steward of his household there, Elah’s servant Zimri, the commander of half his chariots, conspired against him.
1 Kings 16:9, Berean Standard Bible
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Elah, son of Baasha, had reigned over the northern kingdom of Israel for two years, and the narrator shows him at his weakest: drunk in the house of Arza, the official in charge of the palace household in Tirzah. Zimri, who commanded half of Elah's chariot force, used that moment to conspire against the king.
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