But Jehu took no heed. — Or, Now Jehu had not been careful. This verse, rather than the next, begins a new paragraph.

To walk in the lawi.e., the Mosaic law, which forbids the use of images, such as the “calves.”

With all his heart. — This is explained by the next sentence. He had done honour to Jehovah by extirpating the foreign Baal-worship, but he supported the irregular mode of worshipping Jehovah established by Jeroboam as the state religion of the Northern kingdom.

For. — Not in the Hebrew.

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