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 — Ahab's reign is synchronized with Asa's thirty-eighth year; his twenty-two-year tenure makes him one of the north's longest-reigning kings. The phrase marks the beginning of Israel's most turbulent period: intensified Baal worship, famine, prophetic confrontation, and divine judgment.

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