Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, [but] walked therein: and there remained the grove also in Samaria.)
Ver. 6. Nevertheless they departed not.] Though first plagued, and then saved, yet they remained irreclaimable.
And there remained the grove.] Ahab's grove. 1Ki 16:33 Ballism, therefore, was not utterly abolished by Jehu.