Event

Reign of Omri

Name: Reign of Omri
Location: Samaria

Date:: 928 BC
Duration:: 12 years

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Part of 1

Northern Kingdom (Israel)

Preceded by 1

Reign of Asa

Followed by 1

Death of Omri

Participants 1

Omri

Locations 1

Samaria

Described in 7

Reference	Verse
1 Kings 16:22	But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people that followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri reigned.
1 Kings 16:23	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.
1 Kings 16:24	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.
1 Kings 16:25	But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse than all that were before him.
1 Kings 16:26	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.
1 Kings 16:27	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?
1 Kings 16:28	So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.

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