Prophecy Against Jeroboam

1 Kings 14

1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick. 2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, "Please arise, and disguise yourself, that they may not recognize you as the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh. Indeed, Ahijah the prophet is there, who told me that a I would be king over this people. 3 b "Also take 1 with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him; he will tell you what will become of the child."

4 And Jeroboam's wife did so; she arose c and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were 2 glazed by reason of his age.

5 Now the LORD had said to Ahijah, "Here is the wife of Jeroboam, coming to ask you something about her son, for he is sick. Thus and thus you shall say to her; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will pretend to be another woman." 6 And so it was, when Ahijah heard the sound of her footsteps as she came through the door, he said, "Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why do you pretend to be another person? For I have been sent to you with bad news. 7 "Go, tell Jeroboam, 'Thus says the LORD God of Israel: d "Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you ruler over My people Israel, 8 "and e tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to you; and yet you have not been as My servant David, f who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only what was right in My eyes; 9 "but you have done more evil than all who were before you, g for you have gone and made for yourself other gods and molded images to provoke Me to anger, and h have cast Me behind your back - 10 "therefore behold! i I will bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam, and j will cut off from Jeroboam every male in Israel, k bond and free; I will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as one takes away refuse until it is all gone. 11 "The dogs shall eat l whoever belongs to Jeroboam and dies in the city, and the birds of the air shall eat whoever dies in the field; for the LORD has spoken!" ' 12 "Arise therefore, go to your own house. m When your feet enter the city, the child shall die. 13 "And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he is the only one of Jeroboam who shall 3 come to the grave, because in him n there is found something good toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam. 14 o "Moreover the LORD will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam; 4 this is the day. What? Even now! 15 "For the LORD will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water. He will p uproot Israel from this q good land which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them r beyond 5 the River, 6 s because they have made their 7 wooden images, 8 provoking the LORD to anger. 16 "And He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, t who sinned and who made Israel sin."

17 Then Jeroboam's wife arose and departed, and came to u Tirzah. v When she came to the threshold of the house, the child died. 18 And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, w according to the word of the LORD which He spoke through His servant Ahijah the prophet.

  1. Cross References
    1 Kings 11:29 - 31
    Now it happened at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met him on the way; and he had clothed himself with a new garment, and the two were alone in the field.
  2. Cross References
    1 Samuel 9:7
    Then Saul said to his servant, "But look, if we go, what shall we bring the man? For the bread in our vessels is all gone, and there is no present to bring to the man of God. What do we have?
    1 Samuel 9:8
    And the servant answered Saul again and said, "Look, I have here at hand one-fourth of a shekel of silver. I will give that to the man of God, to tell us our way.
    1 Kings 13:7
    Then the king said to the man of God, "Come home with me and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.
    2 Kings 4:42
    Then a man came from Baal Shalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley bread, and newly ripened grain in his knapsack. And he said, "Give it to the people, that they may eat.
  3. Cross References
    1 Kings 11:29
    Now it happened at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met him on the way; and he had clothed himself with a new garment, and the two were alone in the field.
  4. Cross References
    2 Samuel 12:7
    Then Nathan said to David, "You are the man! Thus says the LORD God of Israel: 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.
    2 Samuel 12:8
    I gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your keeping, and gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if that had been too little, I also would have given you much more!
    1 Kings 16:2
    Inasmuch as I lifted you out of the dust and made you ruler over My people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made My people Israel sin, to provoke Me to anger with their sins.
  5. Cross References
    1 Kings 11:31
    And he said to Jeroboam, "Take for yourself ten pieces, for thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: 'Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and will give ten tribes to you
  6. Cross References
    1 Kings 11:33
    Because they have forsaken Me, and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the people of Ammon, and have not walked in My ways to do what is right in My eyes and keep My statutes and My judgments, as did his father David.
    1 Kings 11:38
    Then it shall be, if you heed all that I command you, walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as My servant David did, then I will be with you and build for you an enduring house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.
    1 Kings 15:5
    Because David did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, and had not turned aside from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
  7. Cross References
    1 Kings 12:28
    Therefore the king asked advice, made two calves of gold, and said to the people, "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt!
    2 Chronicles 11:15
    Then he appointed for himself priests for the high places, for the demons, and the calf idols which he had made.
  8. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 29:6
    For our fathers have trespassed and done evil in the eyes of the LORD our God; they have forsaken Him, have turned their faces away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their backs on Him.
    Nehemiah 9:26
    Nevertheless they were disobedient And rebelled against You, Cast Your law behind their backs And killed Your prophets, who testified against them To turn them to Yourself; And they worked great provocations.
    Psalms 50:17
    Seeing you hate instruction And cast My words behind you?
  9. Cross References
    1 Kings 15:29
    And it was so, when he became king, that he killed all the house of Jeroboam. He did not leave to Jeroboam anyone that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according to the word of the LORD which He had spoken by His servant Ahijah the Shilonite.
  10. Cross References
    1 Kings 21:21
    Behold, I will bring calamity on you. I will take away your posterity, and will cut off from Ahab every male in Israel, both bond and free.
    2 Kings 9:8
    For the whole house of Ahab shall perish; and I will cut off from Ahab all the males in Israel, both bond and free.
  11. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 32:36
    For the LORD will judge His people And have compassion on His servants, When He sees that their power is gone, And there is no one remaining, bond or free.
    2 Kings 14:26
    For the LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter; and whether bond or free, there was no helper for Israel.
  12. Cross References
    1 Kings 16:4
    "The dogs shall eat whoever belongs to Baasha and dies in the city, and the birds of the air shall eat whoever dies in the fields."
    1 Kings 21:24
    "The dogs shall eat whoever belongs to Ahab and dies in the city, and the birds of the air shall eat whoever dies in the field."
  13. Cross References
    1 Kings 14:17
    Then Jeroboam's wife arose and departed, and came to Tirzah. When she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.
  14. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 12:12
    When he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from him, so as not to destroy him completely; and things also went well in Judah.
    2 Chronicles 19:3
    "Nevertheless good things are found in you, in that you have removed the wooden images from the land, and have prepared your heart to seek God."
  15. Cross References
    1 Kings 15:27 - 29
    Then Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him. And Baasha killed him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, while Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.
  16. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 29:28
    'And the LORD uprooted them from their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.'
    2 Kings 17:6
    In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
    Psalms 52:5
    God shall likewise destroy you forever; He shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place, And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
  17. Cross References
    Joshua 23:15
    Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all the good things have come upon you which the LORD your God promised you, so the LORD will bring upon you all harmful things, until He has destroyed you from this good land which the LORD your God has given you.
    Joshua 23:16
    "When you have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed down to them, then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and you shall perish quickly from the good land which He has given you."
  18. Cross References
    2 Kings 15:29
    In the days of Pekah king of Israel, TiglathPile'ser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maachah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.
  19. Cross References
    Exodus 34:13
    But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images
    Exodus 34:14
    (for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God).
    Deuteronomy 12:3
    And you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and burn their wooden images with fire; you shall cut down the carved images of their gods and destroy their names from that place.
  20. Cross References
    1 Kings 12:30
    Now this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one as far as Dan.
    1 Kings 13:34
    And this thing was the sin of the house of Jeroboam, so as to exterminate and destroy it from the face of the earth.
    1 Kings 15:30
    Because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he had sinned and by which he had made Israel sin, because of his provocation with which he had provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.
    1 Kings 15:34
    He did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin by which he had made Israel sin.
    1 Kings 16:2
    Inasmuch as I lifted you out of the dust and made you ruler over My people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made My people Israel sin, to provoke Me to anger with their sins.
  21. Cross References
    1 Kings 15:21
    Now it happened, when Baasha heard it, that he ...
    1 Kings 15:33
    In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha ...
    1 Kings 16:6
    So Baasha rested with his fathers and was burie...
    1 Kings 16:8
    In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, ...
    1 Kings 16:15
    In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah...
    1 Kings 16:23
    In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, ...
    Song of Solomon 6:4
    O my love, you are as beautiful as Tirzah, Love...
  22. Cross References
    1 Kings 14:12
    Arise therefore, go to your own house. When your feet enter the city, the child shall die.
  23. Cross References
    1 Kings 14:13
    And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he is the only one of Jeroboam who shall come to the grave, because in him there is found something good toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
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