Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 3:2

2 And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD, but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal, that his father had made .

Not from any principle of Conscience (for that would have reached the Calves also): but either, because he was startled at the dreadful Judgments of God inflicted upon his Father and Brother for Baal-worship: or, because he needed Gods help to subdue the Moabites, which he knew Baal could not do: or, to gratify Iehoshaphat, whose help he meant to crave, which he knew he should never obtain without this; and for this reason, it seems, Iezabel was willing to connive at it, as a trick of State.

Marginal references: Heb. [illegible: 1 word].; 1 King. 16. 31, 32.