31 Now Jehoram the son of Ahab became king over Israel at Samaria in the eighteenth e year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah , and reigned twelve e years . 2 He did evil in the sight of the Lord , though not like his father and his mother ; for he put away the sacred pillar of Baal which his father had made . 3 Nevertheless , he clung to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat , which he made Israel sin ; he did not depart from them.
4 Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder , and used to pay the king of Israel 100,000 e lambs and the wool of 100,000 e rams . 5 But when Ahab died , the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 2 Kings 3:1-5
Commentary on 2 Kings 3:1-5
(Read 2 Kings 3:1-5)
Jehoram took warning by God's judgment, and put away the image of Baal, yet he maintained the worship of the calves. Those do not truly repent or reform, who only part with the sins they lose by, but continue to love the sins that they think to gain by.