Charles Ellicott Commentary 2 Kings 10:29

"Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, [to wit], the golden calves that were in Beth-el, and that were in Dan." — 2 Kings 10:29 (ASV)

Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam. — Compare 1 Kings 12:28 and following; 1 Kings 15:26; 1 Kings 15:30; 1 Kings 15:34. Jehu maintained the worship at Bethel and Dan on the same grounds of state policy as the kings who preceded him.

Howbeit. — Only; the word constantly used by the redactor to qualify his estimate of the conduct of the kings. (Compare 2 Kings 12:3; 2 Kings 14:4; 2 Kings 15:4.) The verse is, therefore, a parenthetic qualification of the approval implied in 2 Kings 10:28.