“Now Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord, more than all who were before him.”
One by one the kings of Israel sinned grievously against the LORD by worshipping false gods, and leading their people to do the same. It seems that each king in succession did more evil than the one before him. None of them seemed moved either by the warnings of the prophets or by the actual judgements those warnings had referred to.
