Omri Reigns in Israel

1 Kings 16

²¹ Then the people of Israel were divided into two parts. Half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king, and half followed Omri. ²² But the people who followed Omri overcame the people who followed Tibni the son of Ginath. So Tibni died, and Omri became king. ²³ In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri began to reign over Israel, and he reigned for twelve years; six years he reigned in Tirzah. ²⁴ He bought the hill of _f Samaria from Shemer for two talents ₁ of silver, and he fortified the hill and called the name of the city that he built _g Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.

²⁵ _h Omri did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and did more evil _i than all who were before him. ²⁶ For _e he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in the sins that he made Israel to sin, _j provoking the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger by their idols. ²⁷ Now the rest of the acts of Omri that he did, and the might that he showed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? ²⁸ And Omri slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria, and Ahab his son reigned in his place.

1. Cross References
   1 Kings 13:32
   For the saying that he called out by the word of the Lord against the altar in Bethel and against all the houses of the high places that are in the cities of Samaria shall surely come to pass.
   
2. Cross References
   1 Kings 16:28 - 29
   And Omri slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria, and Ahab his son reigned in his place.
   1 Kings 16:32
   He erected an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he built in Samaria.
   
3. Cross References
   Micah 6:16
   For you have kept the statutes of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab; and you have walked in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation, and your inhabitants a hissing; so you shall bear the scorn of my people.
   
4. Cross References
   1 Kings 16:30
   And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord, more than all who were before him.
   
5. Cross References
   1 Kings 16:19
   Because of his sins that he committed, doing evil in the sight of the Lord, walking in the way of Jeroboam, and for his sin which he committed, making Israel to sin.
   
6. Cross References
   1 Kings 16:13
   For all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and which they made Israel to sin, provoking the Lord God of Israel to anger with their idols.
   

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