1 Kings 16:28-31

²⁸After Omri died, he was buried in Samaria, and his son Ahab became king.

²⁹Ahab became king of Israel when Asa had ruled Judah for almost 38 years. Ahab ruled in Samaria city for 22 years.

³⁰Ahab did many things that Yahweh considered to be evil. He did more evil things than any of the kings who ruled Israel before he did.

³¹He committed the same kind of sins that Jeroboam did, but he did things that were worse than the things that Jeroboam did. He married a woman named Jezebel, the daughter of Ethbaal, the king of Sidon city. Then Ahab started to worship Baal, the god that the Canaan people-group worshiped.