For the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger — The narrator explains the massacre as retribution for Jeroboam's schismatic apostasy. The phrase בַּחַטּוֹת אֲשֶׁר־חָטָא יָרְבְּעָם וַיַּחְטִא אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵל (for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned and made Israel to sin) emphasizes both his individual transgression and his institutional corruption of the kingdom.

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