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6 What should I bring to Yahweh,
≈as I bow down to the high God?
Should I come to him with burnt offerings,
≈with year-old calves?
7 Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams,
≈or with ten thousand rivers of oil?
Should I sacrifice my oldest child to pay for my disobedience—
≈my biological offspring to pay for my own sin?
8 He has told humanity what is good,
≈and what Yahweh requires from you:
Act justly,
love kindness,
and walk humbly with your God.
9 Yahweh is making a proclamation to the city—
even now wisdom is calling out to you:
“Pay attention to the rod of punishment,
and to the one who has put it in place.
10 There’s dishonest wealth in wicked people’s houses,
along with hated false weights and measures.
11 Should I consider people to be innocent if they use fraudulent scales
or a bag of deceptive weights?
12 The city’s rich men are full of violence,
the inhabitants have spoken lies,
and you can’t believe a word that they say.
13 Therefore I’ll strike you with a terrible blow,
and I’ll make you into a desolate country because of your sins.
14 You’ll eat but not be satisfied—your emptiness will remain inside you.
≈You’ll store goods away but not be able to save them, and what you do save I will be taken by force.
15 You’ll sow, but not harvest.
≈You’ll tread the olives, but not anoint yourselves with their oil.
≈You’ll press grapes, but not drink the wine.
16 As a city, you’ve kept the regulations made by King Omri,
≈and behaved similarly to Ahab’s evil descendants.
You walk by their advice, so I’ll make you into a ruin.
People will hiss at your inhabitants,
1Ki 16:23-28:
23 Omri became king in the thirty-first years of King Asa’s reign over Yehudah, and reigned over Israel for twelve years—six of them from Tirtsah. 24 He bought a hill from a man named Shemer for seventy kilograms of silver, then built his capital city on it. He named it Shomron (Samaria) in honour of Shemer who’d owned the hill.
25 Omri did what Yahweh had said was evil—in fact he did more evil things than all those kings who preceded him. 26 He followed (Nabat’s son) Yarave’am’s behaviour including causing Israel to sin by provoking Israel’s God Yahweh to get angry with their idols. 27 Everything else that Omri did, including his military victories, is written in the book of the events of the kings of Israel. 28 Then Omri died and was buried in Shomron, and his son Ahav (Ahab) replaced him as king.
1Ki 16:29-34:
16:29 Ahav’s reign over Israel
29 Omri’s son Ahav became king of Israel in the thirty-eighth year of King Ahab’s reign over Yehudah, and he reigned Israel from Shomron for twenty-two years. 30 Ahav did what Yahweh had said was evil—in fact he did more evil things than all those kings who preceded him. 31 As if following Yarave’am’s behaviour wasn’t bad enough, he married Izevel (Jezebel), the daughter of the Sidonian King Etbaal, then went and served Baal and bowed down to him. 32 He built a temple for Baal in Shomron and placed an altar in it. 33 Ahav also made an Asherah pole and went on to provoke Israel’s God Yahweh to get angry, more than any of the previous kings of Israel had done. 34 During his reign, Hiel from Beyt-El rebuilt Yeriko city. As they laid the foundations, his eldest son Aviram died, and when they hung the city gates, his youngest son Seguv died, just as Yahweh had told (Nun’s son) Yehoshua (Joshua).[ref]
21:25-26:
25 Surely there was never anyone else as evil as Ahav who sold his soul by doing what Yahweh was said was wrong—albeit often incited by his wife Izevel. 26 He also behaved disgustingly by worshipping idols like the Amorites had done before Yahweh removed them from the land as the Israelis entered.