1 Kings 16:27

The rest.. Omri] Omri seems to have engaged in war with the Syrians, but was so unsuccessful that he had to grant them the privilege of having 'streets' (i.e. trading quarters) in Samaria (1 Kings 20:34). Two additional facts respecting Omri's reign are furnished by certain inscriptions, (a) On the Moabite Stone it is stated by Mesha, the king of Moab, that Omri 'afflicted' that country. (b) On the Assyrian monuments Israel is regularly termed 'the land of Omri,' a designation which suggests that it was in his reign that the Assyrians came first into contact with Israel. It was probably in view of Assyrian aggression that Omri cemented an alliance with the king of Zidon and Tyre (Ethbaal) by a marriage between his own son Ahab and the Zidonian princess Jezebel (1 Kings 16:31). According to Menander, Ethbaal (Gk. Itho-balos) was the great-grandfather of Dido, the founder of Carthage.