²⁹ In the thirty-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-two years.

^{30 Ref} Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh above all that were before him.

^{31 Ref} It happened, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.

^{32 Ref} He reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.

^{33 Ref} Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did yet more to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.