And it happened when Zimri saw that the city would be captured he came into a high place of the king and burned the house of the king with fire over him, and died,
And he said, Capture them alive! And they captured them alive, and slaughtered them at the pit of the shearing house, forty men. And he did not leave a man of them.
And it happened, when the letter came to them, they took the sons of the king and slaughtered them, seventy men, and put their heads in baskets, and sent to him in Jezreel.
And Menahem the son of Gadi from Tirzah went up and came into Samaria and struck Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and caused him to die, and he reigned in his place.
And Pekah the son of Remaliah, his general, conspired against him and struck him in Samaria, in the high place of the house of the king, with Argob and Arieh, and fifty men of the sons of the Gileadites with him; and he caused him to die and reigned in his place.
And Hoshea the son of Elah conspired a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and struck him, and caused him to die, and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
But we are all as the unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as a menstruation cloth. And we all fade as a leaf, and like the wind our iniquities lift us up.
And there is not one who calls on Your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us, and have melted us away into the hand of our iniquities.
As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. And we have not made our prayer before the face of Jehovah our God that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth.
They have set up kings, but not by Me. They have made rulers, but I did not know. They made idols for themselves with their silver and their gold, so that they may be cut off.