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In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri to reign over Israel, twelve years:
six years reigned he in Tirzah.
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And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver,
and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, owner
of the hill, Samaria.
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But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the L
ORD
, and did worse than all that
were
before him.
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For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made
Israel to sin, to provoke the L
ORD
God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
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Now the rest of the
acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he shewed,
are
they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel?
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So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and
Ahab his son reigned in his stead.
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And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign
over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.
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And
Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the L
ORD
above all that
were
before him.
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And it
came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served
Baal, and worshipped him.
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And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had
built in Samaria.
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And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the L
ORD
God of Israel
to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
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In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his
firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest
son
Segub, according to the word of the L
ORD
,
which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.
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And Elijah the Tishbite,
who was
of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab,
As
the L
ORD
God
of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to
my word.
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And the word of the L
ORD
came unto him, saying,
3
Get thee hence, and turn thee
eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that
is
before Jordan.
4
And it shall be,
that
thou
shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
5
So he went and did
according unto the word of the L
ORD
: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that
is
before
Jordan.
6
And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the
evening; and he drank of the brook.
7
And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up,
because there had been no rain in the land.
8
And the word of the L
ORD
came unto him, saying,
9
Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which
belongeth
to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain
thee.
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So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the
widow woman
was
there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee,
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