1 Kin 16:22 But the people who followed Omri prevailed over the people who followed Tibni the son of Ginath. And Tibni died and Omri became king.
1 Kin 16:23 In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri became king over Israel and reigned twelve years; he reigned six years at Tirzah.
1 Kin 16:24 He bought the hill Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver; and he built on the hill, and named the city which he built Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.
1 Kin 16:25 ¶ Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD, and acted more wickedly than all who were before him.
1 Kin 16:26 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat and in his sins which he made Israel sin, provoking the LORD God of Israel with their idols.
1 Kin 16:27 Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did and his might which he showed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
1 Kin 16:28 So Omri slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria; and Ahab his son became king in his place.
1 Kin 16:29 ¶ 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 twenty-two years.
1 Kin 16:30 Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD more than all who were before him.
1 Kin 16:31 ¶ It came about, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went to serve Baal and worshiped him.
1 Kin 16:32 So he erected an altar for Baal in the house of Baal which he built in Samaria.
1 Kin 16:33 Ahab also made the Asherah. Thus Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
1 Kin 16:34 In his days Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho; he laid its foundations with the loss of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates with the loss of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which He spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.
1 Kin 17:1 Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, surely there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word."
1 Kin 17:2 The word of the LORD came to him, saying,
1 Kin 17:3 "Go away from here and turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan.
1 Kin 17:4 "It shall be that you will drink of the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to provide for you there."
1 Kin 17:5 So he went and did according to the word of the LORD, for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan.
1 Kin 17:6 The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he would drink from the brook.
1 Kin 17:7 It happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.