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1 Kings 16:32

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

Context

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.
33Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did more yet to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel), to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
34In his days Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho. He laid its foundation with the loss of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates with the loss of his youngest son Segub, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.

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