16And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.
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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.
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.
Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee prince over my people Israel; and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;
And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-20)When those that set up idols, and keep them up, go to enquire of the Lord, he determines to answer them, not according to the pretensions of their enquiry, but according to the multitude of their idols , Ezek. 14:4. So Jeroboam is answered here. I. The prophet anticipates the enquiry concerning the child, and foretels the ruin of Jeroboam’s house for the wickedness of it. No one else durst have ca…
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