SEV Biblia, Chapter 16:18
Mas viendo Zimri tomada la ciudad, se metió en el palacio de la casa real, y pegó fuego a la casa consigo; así murió.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 18. And it came to pass, that when Zimri saw that the city was taken , etc.] That Omri, and the army with him, had got into it, being a place not much fortified, and Zimri not having force enough to defend it against such an army: that he went into the palace of the king’s house ; into the innermost and most splendid, as well as the strongest part of it: and burnt the king’s house over him with fire, and he died ; that he might not fall into the hands of his rival, who he might fear would use him ill, and that he might not enjoy the royal palace; though Kimchi thinks that Omri set fire to the palace, and burnt it over the head of Zimri, in which he perished; and this sense the text will bear.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 15-28 - When men forsake God, they will be left to plague one another. Prou aspiring men ruin one another. Omri struggled with Tibni some years Though we do not always understand the rules by which God govern nations and individuals in his providence, we may learn useful lesson from the history before us. When tyrants succeed each other, an massacres, conspiracies, and civil wars, we may be sure the Lord has controversy with the people for their sins; they are loudly called to repent and reform. Omri made himself infamous by his wickedness. Man wicked men have been men of might and renown; have built cities, an their names are found in history; but they have no name in the book of life.
Original Hebrew
ויהי 1961 כראות 7200 זמרי 2174 כי 3588 נלכדה 3920 העיר 5892 ויבא 935 אל 413 ארמון 759 בית 1004 המלך 4428 וישׂרף 8313 עליו 5921 את 853 בית 1004 מלך 4428 באשׁ 784 וימת׃ 4191
