1 Kings 16:23-28 - Israel's King Omri

²³ The thirty first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri began to reign over Israel twelve years and he ruled six years in Tirzah. ²⁴ And he bought the hill of Samaria of one Shemer for two hundred talents of silver, and built in the hill, and called the name of the city which he had built Samaria after the name of Shemer, the lord of the hill.

²⁵ And this Omri wrought wickedness in the eyes of the LORD worse than all that were before him, ²⁶ and walked in all the ways of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel sin, to anger the LORD God of Israel with their vanities. ²⁷ The rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his power that he used, are written in the chronicles of the kings of Israel. ²⁸ And Omri laid him to rest with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria, and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.