1 Kings 16:29

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In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel. Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.

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26For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sins with which he made Israel) to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.

27Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he showed, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

28So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria; and Ahab his son reigned in his place.

29In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel). Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.

30Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight above all that were before him.

31As if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.

32He raised up an altar for Baal) in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.

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