³⁰ And Ahab the son of Omri did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh ^(A)more than all who were before him.

³¹ Now it happened, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that ^(B)he took Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the ^(C)Sidonians as a wife, and went and served Baal and worshiped him. ³² So he erected an altar for Baal in ^(D)the house of Baal which he built in Samaria. ³³ Ahab also made ^(E)the ^[a]Asherah. Thus ^(F)Ahab did more to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

¹⁹ So now then send and gather to me all Israel at ^(A)Mount Carmel, ^(B)together with 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of ^(C)the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”

¹³ but ^(A)have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot ^(B)as the house of Ahab played the harlot, and you ^(C)have also killed your brothers, ^[a]your own family, who were better than you,