30And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin.
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.
But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25-33)We have here the beginning of the reign of Jeroboam. He built Shechem first and then Penuel—beautified and fortified them, and probably had a palace in each of them for himself (1 Kgs. 12:25), the former in Ephraim, the latter in Gad, on the other side Jordan. This might be proper; but he formed another project for the establishing of his kingdom which was fatal to the interests of religion in it.…
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