And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah — Omri leads the entire army from the Philistine siege to besiege Zimri in Tirzah, establishing immediate control. The phrase shows strategic military acumen: Omri abandons the external siege to eliminate the internal usurper first, a pragmatic prioritization of existential threats.

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