24. He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver. He fortified the hill and named the city he built after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, calling it “Samaria.”
25. But Omri did evil in the eyes of the Lord and did worse than all who preceded him,
26. for he walked in all the ways of Jeroboam the son of Nebat and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
27. Now the rest of the acts Omri performed and his might that he showed, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
28. So Omri slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria, and Ahab his son reigned in his place.
29. In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel, and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.
30. Ahab the son of Omri did more evil in the sight of the Lord than all who were before him.
31. The sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat were seen as minor for him to walk in, for he took Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians, as his wife and went and served Baal and worshipped him.
32. He raised an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.
33. Ahab made an Asherah and did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel who preceded him.
34. In his days, Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho. He laid the foundation at the expense of his firstborn Abiram and set up the gates at the cost of the life of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the Lord, which He spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.