The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: to reign over Israel, twelve years: six years reigned he in Tirzah.
KI1 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.
KI1 16:25 But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse
than all that were before him.
KI1 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.
KI1 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
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