29Ahab the son of Omri became king over Israel in the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.30Ahab the son of Omri did what was bad in the eyes of the LORD, more than all who were before him.31It was a light matter for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat; he took Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians as wife, and he went and served Baal and bowed down to him.32He erected an altar for Baal in the house of Baal that he built in Samaria.33Ahab also made the Asherah, and Ahab continued to act so as to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, more than all the kings of Israel who were before him.34In his days Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho; he laid its foundation at the cost of Abiram his firstborn, and he set up its gates at the cost of Segub his youngest, according to the word of the LORD that he had spoken by the hand of Joshua the son of Nun.