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He bought the hill of
1Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver, and he fortified the hill and called the name of the city that he built
2Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.
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3Omri did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and did more evil
4than all who were before him.
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For
5he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in the sins that he made Israel to sin,
6provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger by their idols.
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Now the rest of the acts of Omri that he did, and the might that he showed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
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And Omri slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria, and Ahab his son reigned in his place.
Ahab Reigns in Israel
29 In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel, and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.
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And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD,
7more than all who were before him.
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And as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
8he took for his wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the
9Sidonians,
10and went and served Baal and worshiped him.
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He erected an altar for Baal in
11the house of Baal, which he built in Samaria.
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And Ahab made an
12Asherah. Ahab did more to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger
13than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
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14In his days Hiel of Bethel built
15Jericho. He laid its foundation at the cost of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates at the cost of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.