1 Kings 12:31

12:31 He built temples ¹  on the high places and appointed as priests people who were not Levites.

1 Kings 14:9

14:9 You have sinned more than all who came before you. You went and angered me by making other gods, formed out of metal; you have completely disregarded me. ² 

1 Kings 14:22

14:22 Judah did evil in the sight of ³  the Lord. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done. ⁴ 

1 Kings 16:19

16:19 This happened because of the sins he committed. He did evil in the sight of ⁵  the Lord and followed in Jeroboam’s footsteps and encouraged Israel to continue sinning. ⁶ 

1 Kings 16:27

16:27 The rest of the events of Omri’s reign, including his accomplishments and successes, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. ⁷ 

1 Kings 16:33

16:33 Ahab also made an Asherah pole; he ⁸  did more to anger the Lord God of Israel than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

¹ tn The Hebrew text has the singular, but the plural is preferable here (see 1 Kgs 13:32). The Old Greek translation and the Vulgate have the plural.

² tn Heb “you went and you made for yourself other gods, metal [ones], angering me, and you threw me behind your back.”

³ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

⁴ tn Heb “and they made him jealous more than all which their fathers had done by their sins which they sinned.”

⁴ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

⁵ tn Heb “walking in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin which he did to make Israel sin.”

⁵ tn Heb “As for the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his strength which he demonstrated, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel?”

⁶ tn Heb “Ahab”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.