Perhaps the most obscure of the seven suicides in the Bible is the one of short-lived king Zimri of the northern kingdom of Israel. Zimri was only king seven days, but he fully undid all that Elah and Elah’s father Baasha had done, even to destroying the elaborate palace Baasha had built in Tirzah. This wee we look at how Zimri, out of shear spite, committed suicide by burning down the palace with him inside of it.
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