Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan.
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Gill's Exposition
But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart,.... As to his moral conversation, he was not careful that it was according to the law of God, and what he did…
Barnes' Notes
To abolish the calf-worship was a thought which had probably never occurred to Jehu. He had religious feeling enough, and patriotism enough, to detest the utterly debasing Astarte worship; but the…
Here is all the account of the reign of Jehu, though it continued twenty-eight years. The progress of it answered not to the glory of its beginning. We have here,
I. God's approbation of what Jehu had…
Cambridge Bible
who[R.V. wherewith he] made Israel to sin See above on 2Ki 2:3. The same change is to be made in verse 31.
golden calves thatwere] From 1Ki 12:28-29, we see that only oneimage was in each place.
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