1 Kings 16:25–34

^25wOmri did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and did worse than all who were before him. ²⁶For he ^xwalked in all the ways of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin by which he had made Israel sin, provoking the Lord God of Israel to anger with their ^yidols. ⁸

²⁷Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and the might that he showed, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

²⁸So Omri rested with his fathers and was buried in Samaria. Then Ahab his son reigned in his place.

Ahab Reigns in Israel

²⁹In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri became king over Israel; and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years. ³⁰Now Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord, more than all who were before him. ³¹And it came to pass, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, ^zthat he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the ^aSidonians; ^band he went and served Baal and worshiped him. ³²Then he set up an altar for Baal in ^cthe temple of Baal, which he had built in Samaria. ^33dAnd Ahab made a ⁹wooden image. Ahab ^edid more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him. ³⁴In his days Hiel of Bethel built Jericho. He laid its foundation ¹with Abiram his firstborn, and with his youngest son Segub he set up its gates, ^faccording to the word of the Lord, which He had spoken through Joshua the son of Nun.