And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria — Ahab constructs a dedicated Baal temple with altar in Samaria. The phrase shows institutional establishment of Baal worship; it is no longer peripheral but central to Samaria's religious life. The temple's construction marks Baal as the state-sanctioned deity.

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