³⁰ And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord, ^(A)more than all who were before him. ³¹ And as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, ^(B)he took for his wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the ^(C)Sidonians, ^(D)and went and served Baal and worshipped him. ³² He erected an altar for Baal in ^(E)the house of Baal, which he built in Samaria. ³³ And Ahab made an ^(F)Asherah. Ahab did more to provoke the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger ^(G)than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

Ahab's Repentance

²⁵ (^(A)There was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited. ²⁶ He acted very abominably in going after ^(B)idols, as ^(C)the Amorites had done, whom the Lord cast out before the people of Israel.)