1 Kings 16:27

Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he showed [Not only in the war with Tibni, but certainly in the subjugation of the Moabites, of which mention is made in the recently discovered Moabite stone . He may well have had other wars, which, like this, have escaped notice in Scripture. If the king of Syria spoke truly ( 1 Kings 20:34 ), the war with that power had been extremely disastrous. Yet the Assyrian inscriptions prove that Omri's name was more widely and permanently known in the East than those of his predecessors or successors. Samaria, for example, down to the time of Tiglath-Pileser, appears as Beth Khumri, the "house of Omri;" Athaliah,the daughter of Ahab, is called a daughter of Omri; and Jehu appears in the Black Obelisk Inscription as "the son of Omri". It is perhaps an evidence of "his might" that his dynasty retained the throne to the third generation], are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? [ 1 Kings 16:26 , 1 Kings 16:27 are an exact repetition, mutatis mutandis, of 1 Kings 13:14 ; cf. 15:80.]