16:27 the might that he showed. Politically and militarily Omri was quite successful. The Moabite stone, an inscription from one of Israel’s neighbors, states that Omri subjugated Moab and captured Medeba. Much later, the annals of the Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III (c. 732 b.c.) still speak of Israel as the “house of Omri.”