⁶ And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done, for he had the daughter of ^(A)Ahab as a wife; and he did evil in the sight of the Lord.

Micaiah Warns Ahab^(A)

18 Jehoshaphat ^(B)had riches and honor in abundance; and by marriage he ^(C)allied himself with ^(D)Ahab.

¹⁸ And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done, for ^(A)the daughter of Ahab was his wife; and he did evil in the sight of the Lord.

²⁸ Therefore the king asked advice, ^(A)made two calves of gold, and said to the people, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. ^(B)Here are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt!” ²⁹ And he set up one in ^(C)Bethel, and the other he put in ^(D)Dan. ³⁰ Now this thing became ^(E)a sin, for the people went to worship before the one as far as Dan.

²⁵ So I ^(A)contended with them and ^[a]cursed them, struck some of them and pulled out their hair, and made them ^(B)swear by God, saying, “You shall not give your daughters as wives to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons or yourselves. ^26 (C)Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, ^(D)who was beloved of his God; and God made him king over all Israel. ^(E)Nevertheless pagan women caused even him to sin.

² Ahaziah was ^[a]forty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was ^(A)Athaliah the ^[b]granddaughter of Omri.

^25 (A)Omri did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and did worse than all who were before him. ²⁶ For he ^(B)walked in all the ways of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin by which he had made Israel sin, provoking the Lord God of Israel to anger with their ^(C)idols.^[a]

²⁷ Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and the might that he showed, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

²⁸ So Omri rested with his fathers and was buried in Samaria. Then 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 became king over Israel; and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years. ³⁰ Now Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord, more than all who were before him. ³¹ And it came to pass, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, ^(D)that he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the ^(E)Sidonians; ^(F)and he went and served Baal and worshiped him. ³² Then he set up an altar for Baal in ^(G)the temple of Baal, which he had built in Samaria. ^33 (H)And Ahab made a ^[b]wooden image. Ahab ^(I)did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.