1 Kings 16:25

25 Omri did evil in the LORD's eyes, more evil than anyone who preceded him.

1 Kings 16:25 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 16:25

But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the Lord
Openly and publicly, as if it were in defiance of him:

and did worse than all that were before him;
taking no warning by the judgments inflicted on them, which aggravated his sins; and besides, he not only worshipped the calves, as the rest, and drew Israel by his example into the same, as they did, but he published edicts and decrees, obliging them to worship them, and forbidding them to go to Jerusalem, called "the statutes of Omri", ( Micah 6:16 ) .

1 Kings 16:25 In-Context

23 In the thirty-first year of Judah's King Asa, Omri became king of Israel. He ruled for twelve years, six of which were in Tirzah.

24 He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two kikkars of silver. He fortified the hill and named the town that he built there after Shemer, the previous owner of the hill of Samaria.

25 Omri did evil in the LORD's eyes, more evil than anyone who preceded him.

26 He walked in all the ways and sins of Jeroboam, Nebat's son, because he caused Israel to sin. They angered Israel's God, the LORD, with their worthless idols.

27 The rest of Omri's deeds and his powerful acts, aren't they written in the official records of Israel's kings?