1 Kings 16:25
“But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the Lord, and did worse than all that were before him.”
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.
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.
But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the Lord, and did worse than all that were before him.
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 Lord God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
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?
Related Verses
“And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord above all that were before him.”
“And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.”
“But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.”
“And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.”
“And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.”