²⁹ In the thirty-eighth year that Asa was king of Judah, Ahab, the son of Omri, became king over Israel; and Ahab was king in Samaria for twenty-two years.

^{30 Ref} And Ahab, the son of Omri, did evil in the eyes of the Lord, even worse than all who went before him.

^{31 Ref} And as if copying the evil ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, was a small thing for him, he took as his wife Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of Zidon, and became a servant and worshipper of Baal.

^{32 Ref} And he put up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal which he had made in Samaria.

^{33 Ref} And Ahab made an image of Asherah and did more than all the kings of Israel before him to make the Lord, the God of Israel, angry.