1 Kings 16:25–34

^25aOmri did evil in the sight of the Lord, and ^bacted more wickedly than all who were before him.

²⁶For he ^awalked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat and in his sins which he made Israel sin, provoking the Lord God of Israel with their ¹idols.

²⁷Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did and his might which he ¹showed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

²⁸So Omri slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria; and Ahab his son became king in his place.

²⁹Now Ahab the son of Omri became king over Israel in the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.

³⁰Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord ^amore than all who were before him.

³¹It came about, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that ^ahe married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the ^bSidonians, and went to serve Baal and worshiped him.

³²So he erected an altar for Baal in ^athe house of Baal which he built in Samaria.

³³Ahab also made ^athe ¹Asherah. Thus ^bAhab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

^34aIn his days Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho; he laid its foundations with the loss of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates with the loss of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the Lord, which He spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.