And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut [it] off, and to destroy [it] from off the face of the earth.
Ver. 34. And this thing became sin.] This his obstinacy and pertinacy in his abominable idolatries, became his utter ruin. Fugite ergo, reges, eiusmodi exitum, fugiendo huiusmodi flagitium, saith Ambrose, a "Be wise now, therefore, O ye kings," and overturn not your houses by "lifting up your horns on high" against God.
a De Naboth Jezrael, chap. xi.