2 Kings 3:3
Good News Translation
Yet, like King Jeroboam son of Nebat before him, he led Israel into sin and would not stop.

New Revised Standard Version
Nevertheless he clung to the sin of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he caused Israel to commit; he did not depart from it.

Contemporary English Version
But he kept doing the sinful things that Jeroboam son of Nebat had led Israel to do.

New American Bible
but he still held fast unceasingly to the sins which Jeroboam, son of Nebat, caused Israel to commit.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Nevertheless, he stuck to the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, nor did he depart from them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Nevertheless, he stuck to the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, nor did he depart from them.

he cleaved

2 Kings 10:20-31 And he said: Proclaim a festival for Baal. And he called, . . .

1 Kings 12:28-33 And finding out a device, he made two golden calves, and said to them: Go ye up no more to Jerusalem: Behold thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt. . . .

which made

1 Kings 14:16 And the Lord shall give up Israel for the sins of Jeroboam, who hath sinned, and made Israel to sin.

1 Kings 15:26,34 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of his father, and in his sins, wherewith he made Israel to sin. . . .

1 Kings 16:31 Nor was it enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat: but he also took to wife Jezabel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians. And he went, and served Baal, and adored him.

he departed

2 Kings 13:2,6,11 And he did evil before the Lord, and followed the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin; and he departed not from them. . . .

2 Kings 14:24 And he did that which is evil before the Lord. He departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin.

2 Kings 15:9,18 And he did that which is evil before the Lord, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin. . . .

2 Kings 17:22 And the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam, which he had done: and they departed not from them,

1 Kings 12:26-28 And Jeroboam said in his heart: Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David, . . .

1 Kings 13:33 After these words, Jeroboam came not back from his wicked way: but on the contrary, he made of the meanest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he filled his hand, and he was made a priest of the high places.

1 Corinthians 1:19,20 For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise: and the prudence of the prudent I will reject. . . .

Context
Joram Overcomes Moab's Rebellion
2And he did evil before the Lord, but not like his father and his mother: for he took away the statues of Baal, which his father had made. 3Nevertheless, he stuck to the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, nor did he depart from them.4Now Mesa, king of Moab, nourished many sheep, and he paid to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs, and a hundred thousand rams, with their fleeces.…
Cross References
1 Kings 12:28
And finding out a device, he made two golden calves, and said to them: Go ye up no more to Jerusalem: Behold thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

1 Kings 14:9
But hast done evil above all that were before thee, and hast made thee strange gods, and molten gods, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:

1 Kings 14:16
And the Lord shall give up Israel for the sins of Jeroboam, who hath sinned, and made Israel to sin.

2 Kings 3:2
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