1 Kings 15:33

in Tirzah, twenty and four years To complete the sense the R.V. inserts in italics after -Tirzah" the words - and reigned."

Tirzah seems to have become by this time a more common royal residence than Shechem. Perhaps its extreme beauty attracted the kings and their families. Cf. Sol. Song of Solomon 6:4, -Thou art beautiful as Tirzah".