The Black Obelisk and the Mesheostely

The most telling feature of all this is that Omri is internationally known. He's probably a Phoenician background. If you're worshiping Baal and Ashra, why are you worried about making sure you have a pure Israelite as your leader? Isn't that sort of what it means to be in Israelite? That's a majoring in minors. So he's probably-it is kind of funny that you would have like rank idolatry going on, but then also be like, this guy's not even in Israelite. And yet the biblical perspective is, yeah, Omri, yeah, he shifted the capital to Samaria, and he was a really evil guy