[16:21] The people of Israel were divided: some of them wanted to make Tibni son of Ginath king, and the others were in favor of Omri.
[16:22] In the end, those in favor of Omri won out; Tibni died and Omri became king.
[16:23] So in the thirty-first year of the reign of King Asa of Judah, Omri became king of Israel, and he ruled for twelve years. The first six years he ruled in Tirzah,
[16:24] and then he bought the hill of Samaria for six thousand pieces of silver from a man named Shemer. Omri fortified the hill, built a town there, and named it Samaria, after Shemer, the former owner of the hill.
[16:25] Omri sinned against the Lord more than any of his predecessors.
[16:26] Like Jeroboam before him, he aroused the anger of the Lord, the God of Israel, by his sins and by leading the people into sin and idolatry.
[16:27] Everything else that Omri did and all his accomplishments are recorded in The History of the Kings of Israel.
[16:28] Omri died and was buried in Samaria, and his son Ahab succeeded him as king.