and you did evil more than all who have been before you, and went and made for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me to anger; and you have cast Me behind your back.
And in the thirty-eighth year of Asa the king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel. And Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty two years;
And it happened as if it were a light thing, that he walked in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took a wife, Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal, the king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and bowed himself to it.
And it happened, when Jehoram saw Jehu, he said, Peace, Jehu? And he said, What peace, while the fornications of your mother Jezebel and her sorceries are so many?
and you walk in the way of the kings of Israel, and caused Judah and those living in Jerusalem to fornicate like the fornicating of the house of Ahab; and also you have killed your brothers, the house of your father, who were better than yourself;