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From Practice to Policy
Commentators agree that Omri's evil surpassed his predecessors because he didn't just continue their calf-worship; he formalized it. Scholars like Gill and Barnes point out that Omri established idolatry as state policy, creating official laws and 'statutes' () that compelled the people to sin and forbade them from worshipping in Jerusalem. His sin was in making apostasy systematic and legally binding.
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Kings 16:25
18th Century
Theologian
Omri surpassed his idolatrous predecessors in his zeal, reducing the calf-worship to a regular, formal system that was passed down to posterity.
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Kings 16:25
19th Century
Bishop
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…
John Gill
On 1 Kings 16:25
17th Century
Pastor
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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Matthew Henry
On 1 Kings 16:15–28
17th Century
Minister
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…