26. He followed the example of Jeroboam son of Nebat in all the sins he had committed and led Israel to commit. The people provoked the anger of the lord, the God of Israel, with their worthless idols.
27. The rest of the events in Omri’s reign, the extent of his power, and everything he did are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Israel.
28. When Omri died, he was buried in Samaria. Then his son Ahab became the next king.
29. Ahab son of Omri began to rule over Israel in the thirty-eighth year of King Asa’s reign in Judah. He reigned in Samaria twenty-two years.
30. But Ahab son of Omri did what was evil in the lord’s sight, even more than any of the kings before him.
31. And as though it were not enough to follow the sinful example of Jeroboam, he married Jezebel, the daughter of King Ethbaal of the Sidonians, and he began to bow down in worship of Baal.
32. First Ahab built a temple and an altar for Baal in Samaria.