27. Everything else Omri did while he was king, including his brave deeds, is written in The History of the Kings of Israel.
28. Omri died and was buried in Samaria, and his son Ahab became king.
29. Ahab son of Omri became king of Israel in the thirty-eighth year of Asa's rule in Judah, and he ruled twenty-two years from Samaria.
30. Ahab did more things to disobey the Lord than any king before him.
31. He acted just like Jeroboam. Even worse, he married Jezebel the daughter of King Ethbaal of Sidon and started worshipping Baal.
32. Ahab built an altar and temple for Baal in Samaria
33. and set up a sacred pole for worshipping the goddess Asherah. Ahab did more to make the Lord God of Israel angry than any king of Israel before him.
34. While Ahab was king, a man from Bethel named Hiel rebuilt the town of Jericho. But while Hiel was laying the foundation for the town wall, his eldest son Abiram died. And while he was finishing the gates, his youngest son Segub died. This happened just as the Lord had told Joshua to say many years ago.