Like King Jeroboam before him, he sinned against the LORD and led Israel into sin; he never gave up his evil ways.

But they still did not give up the sins into which King Jeroboam had led Israel, but kept on committing them; and the image of the goddess Asherah remained in Samaria.

Yet, like King Jeroboam son of Nebat before him, he led Israel into sin and would not stop.

But he imitated the sin of King Jeroboam, who led Israel into the sin of worshiping the gold bull-calves he set up in Bethel and in Dan.