And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.
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Barnes' Notes
This persistence in wrong, after the warning given him, brought a judgment, not only on Jeroboam himself, but on his family. Jeroboam’s departure from the path of right forfeited the crown 1Ki 11:38;…
Adam Clarke
And this thing became sin - These abominations were too glaring, and too insulting to the Divine Majesty, to be permitted to last; therefore his house was cut off, and destroyed from the face of the…
Here is, I. The death of the deceived disobedient prophet. The old prophet that had deluded him, as if he would make him some amends for the wrong he had done him or help to prevent the mischief…
Cambridge Bible
The Hebrew text here also is not clear. Literally it is -in this thing there came to be &c." But the A.V. and all other versions translate as though the Hebrew were the same as in the beginning of 1Ki…
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