for his sins which he sinned in doing wickedness in the sight of the LORD, and for walking in the way of Jeroboam and in his sins which he did and made Israel sin.

'Thus sayeth the LORD: Go not, nor yet fight against your brethren the children of Israel, but return every man to his house, for this doing is of the LORD.'" And they obeyed the word of the LORD and returned and departed according to the word of the LORD.

And that doing was a cause of sin. And the people went before the one as far as Dan.

And this doing was sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to destroy it and to put it away from off the face of the earth.