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The Lord shall smite Israel, because they obeyed Jeroboam’s wicked command of worshipping the calves, and that willingly, Hos_5:11.
As a reed is shaken in the water; easily and variously, hither and thither, with every wind; so shall the kingdom and people of Israel be always in an unquiet and unsettled posture, tossed to and fro by foreign invasions and civil wars, by opposite kings and factions, and by the dissensions of the people. See 2Ki_17:18.
Beyond the river, to wit, Euphrates, oft so called by way of eminency, as Gen_15:18 31:21 1Ki_4:21,24. This was accomplished in part, 2Ki_15:29, and more fully 2Ki_17:6.
Because they have made their groves, for the worship of their idols, Exo_34:13 Deu_16:21. God having before condemned the making and worshipping of the calves, by which they designed or pretended to worship the true God; he now takes notice that they were not contented with the calves, but (as it is the nature of idolatry, and all sin, to proceed from evil to worse) were many of them fallen into another and a worse kind of idolatry, even their worship of the heathenish Baals, which they commonly exercised in groves. See Poole "1Ki_18:19".