Omri עׇמְרִי

King of N. Israel. Omri was the sixth king of Israel who established Samaria as the capital and founded a powerful dynasty.

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Where Omri appears

1 Kings (10), 2 Kings (1), 2 Chronicles (1), Micah (1)

Key verses

• 1 Kings 16:16 first mention — 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.
• 1 Kings 16:17 — And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.
• 1 Kings 16:21 — Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri.
• 1 Kings 16:23 — In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri to reign over Israel, twelve years: six years reigned he in Tirzah.
• 1 Kings 16:25 — But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse than all that were before him.
• 1 Kings 16:27 — Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he shewed, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
• 1 Kings 16:28 — So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.
• 1 Kings 16:29 — And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.
• 1 Kings 16:30 — And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above all that were before him.
• 2 Kings 8:26 — Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
• 2 Chronicles 22:2 — Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
• Micah 6:16 — For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

Person data: STEPBible.org TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), adapted. Verse text: King James Version.