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 — Omri perpetuates and intensifies the schismatic worship established by Jeroboam. The phrase shows the north's trajectory: each generation more deeply entrenches idolatry. Omri's 'vanities' (הֶבְלֵיהֶם—false gods, empty idolatries) provoke the LORD's judgment.

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