For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of the Lord, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin. (1 Kings 16:19)
Zimri reigned over Israel only seven days, yet he receives the same condemnation as did kings with the longest reigns. His death goes to illustrate the moral that the writer of Kings draws from the whole history of the Israelite monarchs, that a curse was upon them and the nation for their persistence in Jeroboam’s sin, which eventually brought each royal house to an ignominious and bloody end.