1 Kings 16:28–29
So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.
So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria, and Ahab his sonne reigned in his stead.
¶ And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.
¶ And in the thirtie and eight yeere of Asa king of Iudah, began Ahab the sonne of Omri to reigne ouer Israel, and Ahab the sonne of Omri reigned ouer Israel in Samaria, twentie and two yeeres.
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1 Kings 16:28
Past-tense or past-participial form of sleep. Sense 1: Rested in natural sleep. Sense 2: By figure, lay in death.
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Past-tense or past-participial form of bury. Sense 1: Laid a dead body in a grave or tomb. Sense 2: Covered or concealed beneath earth or another substance, or treated as buried by figure.
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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.
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1. A city. 2. The region associated with that city.
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1. A male child or descendant. 2. One belonging to, related to, or characterized by the person, people, place, condition, or quality named.
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Past-tense or past-participial form of reign (to rule as a king or exercise sovereign authority).
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The place, position, office, or role occupied by one person or thing in substitution for another.
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1 Kings 16:29
1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.
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The number equal to three tens, following twenty-nine and preceding thirty-one.
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A period of twelve months; a stated annual period.
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A sovereign ruler; one exercising royal authority over a kingdom.
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Past-tense or past-participial form of begin (to have an original or first existence; to take rise; to commence).
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1. A male child or descendant. 2. One belonging to, related to, or characterized by the person, people, place, condition, or quality named.
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Sense 1: To exercise kingly rule, dominion, governing power, or controlling power. Sense 2: Royal rule or dominion, or the period during which a ruler governs.
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The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called.
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Past-tense or past-participial form of reign (to rule as a king or exercise sovereign authority).
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1. A city. 2. The region associated with that city.
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The number equal to two tens, following nineteen and preceding twenty-one.
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Periods of twelve months.
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16:25¶ But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the Lord, and did worse than all that were before him.
16:25¶ But Omri wrought euil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse then all that were before him.
16:26For 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.
16:26For he walked in all the way of Ieroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sinne wherewith hee made Israel to sinne, to prouoke the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
16:27Now 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 the kings of Israel?
16:27Now the rest of the acts of Omri, which he did, and his might that he shewed, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?
16:28So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.
16:28So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria, and Ahab his sonne reigned in his stead.
Selected passage16:29¶ And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.
16:29¶ And in the thirtie and eight yeere of Asa king of Iudah, began Ahab the sonne of Omri to reigne ouer Israel, and Ahab the sonne of Omri reigned ouer Israel in Samaria, twentie and two yeeres.
Selected passage16:30And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord above all that were before him.
16:30And Ahab the sonne of Omri did euill in the sight of the LORD, aboue all that were before him.
16:31And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.
16:31And it came to passe, †as if it had beene a light thing for him to walke in the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat; that hee tooke to wife Iezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and serued Baal, and worshipped him.
16:32And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.
16:32And hee reared vp an Altar for Baal, in the house of Baal, which hee had built in Samaria.
16:33And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
16:33And Ahab made a groue, and Ahab did more to prouoke the LORD God of Israel to anger, then all the kings of Israel that were before him.