And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
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Gill's Exposition
For they also built them high places,.... Which, though allowed of, or at least connived at, before the temple was built, and when the tabernacle was unfixed, yet afterwards unlawful; and the tribe of…
Barnes' Notes
This defection of Judah did not take place until Rehoboam’s fourth year (marginal reference). They provoked him to jealousy - Compare Exo 20:5; and on the force of the metaphor involved in the word,…
Judah's story and Israel's are intermixed in this book. Jeroboam out-lived Rehoboam, four or five years, yet his history is despatched first, that the account of Rehoboam's reign may be laid together;…
Cambridge Bible
did evil R.V. did that which was evil. The Hebrew text is better represented by this fuller translation.
provoked him to jealousy Jehovah had called himself a jealousGod, when the Law was given on…
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