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2 Kings 10:29

in 2 Kings 10

but he did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit—the worship of the golden calves at Bethel and Dan.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Beth-el, and that were in Dan.

KJV

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 Beth–el, and that were in Dan.

This verse in 2 Kings 10

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
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 pure worship of Yahweh was altogether beyond and above him.

This site's exposition

Thus Jehu eradicated Baal from Israel

on 2 Kings 10:28-29

The words Thus Jehu eradicated Baal from Israel close one purge in a sentence. The next verse sets its limit: the worship of the golden calves at Bethel and Dan goes on. Jehu's reform reaches every altar built by a queen and stops at the one built by a king.

This site's exposition

the golden calves at Bethel and Dan

Jamieson, Fausset and Brown traced Jehu's keeping of the calves to policy. Albert Barnes thought the idea of ending the calf worship never entered Jehu's mind. He found in Jehu enough religion to hate the worship of Astarte and too little to reach the pure worship of the LORD.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam . . . Jehu departed not from after them--Jehu had no intention of carrying his zeal for the Lord beyond a certain point, and as he considered it impolitic to encourage his subjects to travel to Jerusalem, he re-established the symbolic worship of the calves.

The words behind it

20 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • רַ֠קonly

    rakH7535 →109 times

  • חֲטָאֵ֞י[the] sins of

    chataeiH2399 →

  • יָרָבְעָ֤םJeroboam

    yaraveamH3379 →104 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • נְבָט֙Nebat

    nevatH5028 →25 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • הֶחֱטִ֣יאhe caused to sin

    hecheti'H2398 →238 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • לֹֽא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • סָ֥רhe turned aside

    sarH5493 →299 times

  • יֵה֖וּאJehu

    yehu'H3058 →58 times

  • מֵאַֽחֲרֵיהֶ֑םfrom after them

    meachareihemH310 →715 times

  • עֶגְלֵי֙[the] calves of

    ʾegleiH5695 →

  • הַזָּהָ֔ב<the> gold

    hazahavH2091 →389 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • בֵּֽית־[were] Beth-

    beit-H1008 →142 times

  • אֵ֖ל-el

    ʾelH1008 →142 times

  • וַאֲשֶׁ֥רand which

    vaasherH834 →5497 times

  • בְּדָֽן׃ ס[were] in Dan

    bedanH1835 →

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Kings 14:16

    So He will give Israel over on account of the sins Jeroboam has committed and has caused Israel to commit.”

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 13:34

      And this was the sin of the house of Jeroboam that led to its extermination and destruction from the face of the earth.

    • 1 Kings 15:34

      And Baasha did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin, which he had caused Israel to commit.

    • 1 Kings 15:30

      because of the sins Jeroboam had committed and had caused Israel to commit, and because he had provoked the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger.

    • 1 Kings 16:2

      “Even though I lifted you out of the dust and made you ruler over My people Israel, you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have caused My people Israel to sin and…

    • 1 Kings 12:30

      And this thing became a sin; the people walked as far as Dan to worship before one of the calves.

  • Through

    2 Kings 15:28

    And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 13:2

      And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and followed the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit; he did not turn away from them.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 2 Kings 15:9

      And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done. He did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 2 Kings 13:6

      Nevertheless, they did not turn away from the sins that the house of Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit, but they continued to walk in them. The Asherah pole even remained standing in Samaria.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Kings

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).