1 Kings 16:28

28 Omri lay down with his ancestors and was buried in Samaria. His son Ahab succeeded him as king.

1 Kings 16:28 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 16:28

So Omri slept with his fathers
Died a natural death:

and was buried in Samaria;
the city he had built, and now the royal seat and metropolis of the kingdom:

and Ahab his son reigned in his stead;
of whom much is said in the following history.

1 Kings 16:28 In-Context

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?

28 Omri lay down with his ancestors and was buried in Samaria. His son Ahab succeeded him as king.

29 In the thirty-eighth year of Judah's King Asa, Ahab, Omri's son, became king of Israel. He ruled over Israel in Samaria for twenty-two years

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