He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin — Pekahiah perpetuates the apostasy formula, apparently without either the military achievement or the Assyrian consolidation that characterized his father's reign. His evil-doing, recorded without substantive elaboration, suggests that by this point in the narrative the formula has become almost mechanical: each northern king perpetuates Jeroboam's sins as a matter of institutional inertia rather than active choice.

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