1 Kings 16:24-26

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

²⁴ Omri bought the hill Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver. He built a city on the hill and fortified it, and called it Samaria (Shomeron), after the owner of the hill, Shemer.

²⁵ But Omri did evil in the eyes of the Lord, even worse than all who were before him.

²⁶ He walked in all the ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat and in his sin, by which he made Israel sin, to provoke the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger with their idols.