25. But Omri did what the Lord said was wrong. He did more evil than all the kings who were before him.
26. Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused the people of Israel to sin. And Omri sinned in the same way Jeroboam had sinned. So the Israelites made the Lord, the God of Israel, very angry. He was angry because they worshiped worthless idols.
27. Everything else Omri did and all his successes are written down. They are all in the book of the history of the kings of Israel.
28. So Omri died and was buried in Samaria. His son Ahab became king in his place.
29. So Ahab son of Omri became king of Israel. This was during Asa’s thirty-eighth year as king of Judah. Ahab ruled Israel in the town of Samaria for 22 years.
30. Ahab did many things that the Lord said were wrong. He did more evil than any of the kings before him.
31. He sinned in the same ways that Jeroboam son of Nebat had sinned. But he did even worse things. He married Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal. (Ethbaal was king of the city of Sidon.) Then Ahab began to serve Baal and worship him.
32. He built a temple in Samaria for worshiping Baal. And he put an altar there for Baal.
33. Ahab also made an idol for worshiping Asherah. He did more things to make the Lord, the God of Israel, angry than all the other kings before him.
34. During the time of Ahab, Hiel from Bethel rebuilt the town of Jericho. It cost Hiel the life of Abiram, his oldest son, to begin work on the city. And it cost the life of Segub, his youngest son, to build the city gates. The Lord had said, through Joshua, that this would happen. (Joshua was the son of Nun.)