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 — Pekah, despite his sixteen-year tenure, perpetuates the apostasy formula without differentiation or elaboration. The institutional nature of northern apostasy becomes increasingly apparent: cultic corruption has become so embedded that no king can escape it or reform it.

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