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Omri surpassed his idolatrous predecessors in his zeal, reducing the calf-worship to a regular, formal system that was passed down to posterity.

Did worse than all that were before him. —This phrase, used of Jeroboam in 1 Kings 14:9, may indicate, in addition to the acce…

But Omri did evil in the eyes of the Lord
Openly and publicly, as if it were in defiance of him:
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When men forsake God, they will be left to plague one another. Proud aspiring men ruin one another. Omri struggled with Tibni some years.
Th…
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