31But 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.
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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.
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 29-36)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 done. Many, it is probable, censured him as treacherous and barbarous—called him a rebel, a usurper, a murderer, and prognosticated ill concerning him, that a family thus raised would soon be ruined;…
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