Bible Strands
1 Kings 16:26
For he walked in all the ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat and in his sins, which he caused Israel to commit, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger with their worthless idols.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator records this assessment of King Omri immediately after noting his unprecedented wickedness, within the historical chronicle of the divided monarchy.
The words — וַ/יֵּ֗לֶךְ (va/i.Ye.lekh) means 'and he walked,' and חַטָּאת֔/וֹ (cha.to.ta/v) translates literally to 'his sin,' anchoring the verse’s description of Omri’s conduct.
The thread — This pattern of royal imitation and causing Israel to sin recurs in 1 Kings 16:19 and 1 Kings 16:13, while the origin of the divided kingdom’s political calculation appears in 1 Kings 12:26.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that political survival strategies and cultic innovations directly provoke divine anger, requiring readers to trace how royal decisions shape national spiritual consequences.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
Cross-references
- 1 Kings 16:19 because of the sins he had committed, doing evil in the sight of the LORD and following the example of Jeroboam and the sin he had committed and had caused Israel to commit.
- 1 Kings 16:13 This happened because of all the sins Baasha and his son Elah had committed and had caused Israel to commit, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger with their worthless idols.
- 1 Kings 12:26 Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom might revert to the house of David.
- 1 Kings 13:33 Even after these events, Jeroboam did not repent of his evil ways, but again he appointed priests for the high places from every class of people. He ordained anyone who desired to be a priest of the high places.
- 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 to provoke Me to anger by their sins.
- 1 Kings 16:7 Moreover, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha and his house, because of all the evil he had done in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger with the work of his hands and becoming like the house of Jeroboam, and also because Baasha had struck down the house of Jeroboam.
- Psalms 31:6 I hate those who cling to worthless idols, but in the LORD I trust.
- Jeremiah 8:19 Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?”
- Jeremiah 10:3 For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman.
- Jeremiah 10:8 But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!