Howbeit [from] the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, [to wit], the golden calves that [were] in Bethel, and that [were] in Dan.
Ver. 29. Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam … Jehu departed not.] Because if he had, it might have cost him his kingdom, to the settling whereof he had a hawk's eye in all his reformations. Principes regionem potius quam religionem quaerunt, saith Chemnitius. It is said a that Selymus, the great Turk, and Hismael, the Persian, did, under the colour and zeal of their religion, as they would have it, both pretend just causes of war; although their evil dissembled ambitious desires plainly declared unto the world, that they both shot at one and the same mark: namely, by confirming their power and strength, to extend the bounds of their great empires.
a Turk. Hist., fol. 515.