1 Kings 16:28 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead. ”

• 1 Kings 16:28 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in (l) Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead. (l) He was the first king that was buried in Samaria, after that the kings house was burnt in Ti...

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• 1 Kings 16:28 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  1 Kings 15:33 to 1 Kings 16:34 . Baasha's Dynasty. Rise of the House of Omri. Nothing is told us of Baasha except the usual annalistic details, and, that a prophet named Jehu foretold the destru...

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• 1 Kings 16:28 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.

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• 1 Kings 16:28 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities. No JFB commentary on t...

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• 1 Kings 16:28 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Reigns of Elah, Zimri, and Omri 1. Jehu the son of Hanani] Hanani is mentioned in 2 Chronicles 16:7-10 . Jehu's denunciation of Baasha is similar to Ahijah's denunciation of Jeroboam ( 1 King...

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• 1 Kings 16:28 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE KINGS OF ISRAEL FROM ZIMRI TO AHAB 1 Kings 16:11-34 As far as we can understand from our meager authorities-and we have no independent source of information-we infer that Elah, son of the p...

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• 1 Kings 16:28 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Persistence in Sinful Ways 1 Kings 16:15-28 These Chapter s afford a dreary record of apostasy and revolution, of idolatry and national disaster. Perhaps the great mass of the people-the peasan...

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• 1 Kings 16:28 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Here we have the account of how Jehu was called on to exercise judgment against Baasha. This being accomplished, Elah succeeded Baasha on the throne of Israel. He was so corrupt as to be found "drink...

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• 1 Kings 16:28 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (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. (24) And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of...

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• 1 Kings 16:28 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  So Omri slept with his fathers ,.... Died a natural death: and was buried in Samaria ; the city he had built, and now the royal seat and metropolis of the kingdom: and Ahab his son reigned in hi...

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• 1 Kings 16:28 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead. Ver. 28. And was buried in Samaria. ] Herein he sped better than his betters. It is well observed...

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• 1 Kings 16:28 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  So Omri slept with his fathers He died in his bed, as Jeroboam and Baasha had done; but like them, left it to his posterity to fill up the measure, and then pay off the scores of his iniquity.

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• 1 Kings 16:28 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  The Lord had another servant to bring a solemn message to Baasha. Jehu, the son of Hanani, was the messenger at this time (v.1). Though the history records that Baasha had murdered his master to take...

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• 1 Kings 16:28 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Zimri's Death; Reign of Omri. B. C. 929.       15 In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king...

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• 1 Kings 16:28 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• 1 Kings 16:28 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Reign Of Omri King of Israel c. 884-872 BC. ( 1 Kings 16:21-28 ). We now come to the reign of one of Israel's greatest kings humanly speaking, even though from the divine viewpoint he was a di...

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• 1 Kings 16:28 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES .— 1 Kings 16:15 . Did Zimri reign seven days —A brief possession of a throne won by such criminal deeds! The Israelites repudiated the villainous usurper. 1 Kin...

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• 1 Kings 16:28 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  1 Kings 16:2 . I exalted thee. Baasha was raised from the ranks to regal dignity. 1 Kings 16:7 . Jehu son of Hanani the prophet; the only case I think in which a Father and a son were so favou...

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• 1 Kings 16:28 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Omri slept with his fathers . .. Ahab his son reigned in his stead. Omri and Ahab A careful study of the two kingdoms, Israel and Judah, compels one to feel that communities do the best when...

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• 1 Kings 16:28 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION This division of chapters, immediately after the commencement of the narrative of the reign of Baasha, is somewhat unfortunate, inasmuch as it obscures the close connexion between the...

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• 1 Kings 16:28 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Rule of Omri and of Ahab

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• 1 Kings 16:28 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 16:6

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