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Now Ahab the son of Omri became king over Israel in the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria for twenty-two years.

Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD ^(C1)more than all who were before him.

And as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, ^(C1)he married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the ^(C2)Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.

So he erected an altar for Baal at ^(C1)the house of Baal, which he built in Samaria.

Ahab also made ^(C1)the ^(F1)Asherah. So ^(C2)Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.