1 Kings 15

1 Kings 15:1 In the eighteenth year of Israel’s King Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijam became king over Judah,

1 Kings 15:2 and he reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.

1 Kings 15:3 Abijam walked in all the sins his father before him had committed, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to Yahveh his God as his ancestor David had been.

1 Kings 15:4 But for the sake of David, Yahveh his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up his son after him and by preserving Jerusalem.

1 Kings 15:5 Because David did what was right in Yahveh’s sight, and he did not turn aside from anything he had commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hethite.

1 Kings 15:6 There had been war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of Rehoboam’s life.

1 Kings 15:7 The rest of the events of Abijam’s reign, along with all his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings. There was also war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

1 Kings 15:8 Abijam rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of David. His son Asa became king in his place.

1 Kings 15:9 In the twentieth year of Israel’s King Jeroboam, Asa became king of Judah,

1 Kings 15:10 and he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His grandmother’s name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.

1 Kings 15:11 Asa did what was right in Yahveh’s sight, as his ancestor David had done.

1 Kings 15:12 He banished the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

1 Kings 15:13 He also removed his grandmother Maacah from being queen mother because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. Asa chopped down her obscene image and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

1 Kings 15:14 The high places were not taken away, but Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to Yahveh his entire life.

1 Kings 15:15 He brought his father’s consecrated gifts and his own consecrated gifts into Yahveh ‘s temple: silver, gold, and utensils.

1 Kings 15:16 There was war between Asa and King Baasha of Israel throughout their reigns.

1 Kings 15:17 Israel’s King Baasha went to war against Judah. He built Ramah to keep anyone from leaving or coming to King Asa of Judah.

1 Kings 15:18 So Asa withdrew all the silver and gold that remained in the treasuries of Yahveh ‘s temple and the treasuries of the royal palace and gave it to his servants. Then King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad son of Tabrimmon son of Hezion king of Aram who lived in Damascus, saying,

1 Kings 15:19 “There is a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. Look, I have sent you a gift of silver and gold. Go and break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel so that he will withdraw from me.”

1 Kings 15:20 Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel. He attacked Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, all Chinnereth, and the whole land of Naphtali.

1 Kings 15:21 When Baasha heard about it, he quit building Ramah and stayed in Tirzah.

1 Kings 15:22 Then King Asa gave a command to everyone without exception in Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timbers Baasha had built it with. Then King Asa built Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah with them.

1 Kings 15:23 The rest of all the events of Asa’s reign, along with all his might, all his accomplishments, and the cities he built, are written in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings. But in his old age he developed a disease in his feet.

1 Kings 15:24 Then Asa rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of his ancestor David. His son Jehoshaphat became king in his place.

1 Kings 15:25 Nadab son of Jeroboam became king over Israel in the second year of Judah’s King Asa; he reigned over Israel two years.

1 Kings 15:26 Nadab did what was evil in Yahveh’s sight and walked in the ways of his father and the sin he had caused Israel to commit.

1 Kings 15:27 Then Baasha son of Ahijah of the house of Issachar conspired against Nadab, and Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon of the Philistines while Nadab and all Israel were besieging Gibbethon.

1 Kings 15:28 In the third year of Judah’s King Asa, Baasha killed Nadab and reigned in his place.

1 Kings 15:29 When Baasha became king, he struck down the entire house of Jeroboam. He did not leave Jeroboam anyone breathing[1] but exterminated his family according to the word of Yahveh he had spoken through his servant Ahijah the Shilonite.

1 Kings 15:30 This was because Jeroboam had angered Yahveh God of Israel by the sins he had committed and had caused Israel to commit.

1 Kings 15:31 The rest of the events of Nadab’s reign, along with all his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Israel’s Kings.

1 Kings 15:32 There was war between Asa and King Baasha of Israel throughout their reigns.

1 Kings 15:33 In the third year of Judah’s King Asa, Baasha son of Ahijah became king over all Israel, and he reigned in Tirzah twenty-four years.

1 Kings 15:34 He did what was evil in Yahveh ‘s sight and walked in the ways of Jeroboam and the sin he had caused Israel to commit.

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[1] נְשָׁמָה = breathing. 1 Kings 15:29; 17:17.

links:

a hero among zeroes
looking for spiritual integrity – Devotions
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Monday, October 11, 2021
the LORD watching
where did all the spirits go?

The 1 KINGS shelf in Jeff’s library

1 Kings 14

1 Kings 14:1 At that time Abijah son of Jeroboam became sick.

1 Kings 14:2 Jeroboam said to his wife, “Go disguise yourself, so they won’t know that you’re Jeroboam’s wife, and go to Shiloh. The prophet Ahijah is there; it was he who told about me becoming king over this people.

1 Kings 14:3 Take with you ten loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy.”

1 Kings 14:4 Jeroboam’s wife did that: she went to Shiloh and arrived at Ahijah’s house. Ahijah could not see; he was blind due to his age.

1 Kings 14:5 But Yahveh had said to Ahijah, “Jeroboam’s wife is coming soon to ask you about her son, because he is sick. You are to say such and such to her. When she arrives, she will be disguised.”

1 Kings 14:6 When Ahijah heard her feet entering the door, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam! Why are you disguised? I have bad news for you.

1 Kings 14:7 Go tell Jeroboam, ‘This is what Yahveh God of Israel says: I raised you up from among the people, appointed you ruler over my people Israel,

1 Kings 14:8 tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you. But you were not like my servant David, who kept my commands and followed me with all his heart, doing only what is right in my sight.

1 Kings 14:9 You behaved more wickedly than all who were before you. To anger me, you have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and cast images, but you have flung me behind your back.

1 Kings 14:10 Because of all this, I am about to bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam: I will wipe out all of Jeroboam’s males, both slave and free, in Israel; I will sweep away the house of Jeroboam as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone!

1 Kings 14:11 Anyone who belongs to Jeroboam and dies in the city, the dogs will eat, and anyone who dies in the field, the birds of the sky will eat, because Yahveh has spoken! ‘

1 Kings 14:12 “As for you, get up and go to your house. When your feet enter the city, the boy will die.

1 Kings 14:13 All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He alone out of Jeroboam’s house will be given a proper burial because out of the house of Jeroboam something favorable to Yahveh God of Israel was found in him.

1 Kings 14:14 Yahveh will raise up for himself a king over Israel, who will wipe out the house of Jeroboam. This is the day, yes, even today!

1 Kings 14:15 Because Yahveh will strike Israel so that they will shake as a reed shakes in water. He will uproot Israel from this good soil that he gave to their ancestors. He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates because they made their Asherah poles, angering Yahveh.

1 Kings 14:16 He will give up Israel because of Jeroboam’s sins that he committed and caused Israel to commit.”

1 Kings 14:17 Then Jeroboam’s wife got up and left and went to Tirzah. As she was crossing the threshold of the house, the boy died.

1 Kings 14:18 He was buried, and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of Yahveh he had spoken through his servant the prophet Ahijah.

1 Kings 14:19 As for the rest of the events of Jeroboam’s reign, how he waged war and how he reigned, note that they are written in the Historical Record of Israel’s Kings.

1 Kings 14:20 The length of Jeroboam’s reign was twenty-two years. He lay down with his fathers, and his son Nadab became king in his place.

1 Kings 14:21 Rehoboam, Solomon’s son, reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king; he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city where Yahveh had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to put his name. Rehoboam’s mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.

1 Kings 14:22 Judah did what was evil in Yahveh’s sight. They provoked him to jealous anger more than all that their ancestors had done with the sins they committed.

1 Kings 14:23 They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree;

1 Kings 14:24 there were even male cult prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the detestable practices of the nations Yahveh had dispossessed before the Israelites.

1 Kings 14:25 In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, King Shishak of Egypt went to war against Jerusalem.

1 Kings 14:26 He seized the treasuries of Yahveh ‘s temple and the treasuries of the royal palace. He took everything. He took all the gold shields that Solomon had made.

1 Kings 14:27 King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and committed them into the care of the captains of the guards who protected the entrance to the king’s palace.

1 Kings 14:28 Whenever the king entered Yahveh ‘s temple, the guards would carry the shields, then they would take them back to the armory.

1 Kings 14:29 The rest of the events of Rehoboam’s reign, along with all his accomplishments, are written about in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings.

1 Kings 14:30 There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam throughout their reigns.

1 Kings 14:31 Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. His son Abijam became king in his place.

links:

a hero among zeroes
making the best – Devotions
no disguise – Devotions

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1 Kings 13

1 Kings 13:1 A man of God came, however, from Judah to Bethel by the word of Yahveh while Jeroboam was standing beside the altar to burn incense.

1 Kings 13:2 The man of God cried out against the altar by the word of Yahveh: “Altar, altar, this is what Yahveh says, ‘A son will be born to the house of David, named Josiah, and he will sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who are burning incense on you. Human bones will be burned on you.'”

1 Kings 13:3 He gave a sign that day. He said, “This is the sign that Yahveh has spoken: ‘The altar will now be ripped apart, and the ashes that are on it will be poured out.'”

1 Kings 13:4 When the king heard the message that the man of God had cried out against the altar at Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar and said, “Arrest him!” But the hand he stretched out against him withered, and he could not pull it back to himself.

1 Kings 13:5 The altar was ripped apart, and the ashes poured from the altar, according to the sign that the man of God had given by the word of Yahveh.

1 Kings 13:6 Then the king responded to the man of God, “Plead for the favor of Yahveh your God and pray for me so that my hand may be restored to me.” So, the man of God pleaded for the favor of Yahveh, and the king’s hand was restored to him and became as it had been at first.

1 Kings 13:7 Then the king declared to the man of God, “Come home with me, refresh yourself, and I’ll give you a reward.”

1 Kings 13:8 But the man of God replied, “If you were to give me half your house, I still wouldn’t go with you, and I wouldn’t eat food or drink water in this place,

1 Kings 13:9 because this is what I was commanded by the word of Yahveh: ‘You must not eat food or drink water or go back the way you came.'”

1 Kings 13:10 So he went another way; he did not go back by the way he had come to Bethel.

1 Kings 13:11 Now a certain old prophet was living in Bethel. His son came and told him all the deeds that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. His sons also told their father the words that he had spoken to the king.

1 Kings 13:12 Then their father asked them, “Which way did he go?” His sons had seen the way taken by the man of God who had come from Judah.

1 Kings 13:13 Then he said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled the donkey for him, and he got on it.

1 Kings 13:14 He followed the man of God and found him sitting under an oak tree. He asked him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” “I am,” he said.

1 Kings 13:15 Then he said to him, “Come home with me and eat some food.”

1 Kings 13:16 But he answered, “I cannot go back with you or accompany you; I will not eat food or drink water with you in this place.

1 Kings 13:17 For a message came to me by the word of Yahveh: ‘You must not eat food or drink water there or go back by the way you came.'”

1 Kings 13:18 He said to him, “I am also a prophet like you. An angel spoke to me by the word of Yahveh: ‘Bring him back with you to your house so that he may eat food and drink water.'” The old prophet deceived him,

1 Kings 13:19 and the man of God went back with him, ate food in his house, and drank water.

1 Kings 13:20 While they were sitting at the table, the word of Yahveh came to the prophet who had brought him back,

1 Kings 13:21 and the prophet cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what Yahveh says: ‘Because you rebelled against Yahveh’s command and did not keep the command that Yahveh your God commanded you —

1 Kings 13:22 but you went back and ate food and drank water in the place that he said to you, “Do not eat food and do not drink water”– your corpse will never reach the grave of your fathers.'”

1 Kings 13:23 So after he had eaten food and after he had drunk, the old prophet saddled the donkey for the prophet he had brought back.

1 Kings 13:24 When he left, a lion attacked him along the way and killed him. His corpse was thrown on the road, and the donkey was standing beside it; the lion was standing beside the corpse too.

1 Kings 13:25 There were men passing by who saw the corpse thrown on the road and the lion standing beside it, and they went and spoke about it in the city where the old prophet lived.

1 Kings 13:26 When the prophet who had brought him back from his way heard about it, he said, “He is the man of God who disobeyed Yahveh ‘s command. Yahveh has given him to the lion, and it has mauled and killed him, according to the word of Yahveh that he spoke to him.”

1 Kings 13:27 Then the old prophet instructed his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” They saddled it,

1 Kings 13:28 and he went and found the corpse thrown on the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside the corpse. The lion had not eaten the corpse or mauled the donkey.

1 Kings 13:29 So the prophet lifted the corpse of the man of God and laid it on the donkey and brought it back. The old prophet came into the city to mourn and to bury him.

1 Kings 13:30 Then he laid the corpse in his own grave, and they mourned over him: “Oh, my brother!”

1 Kings 13:31 After he had buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the grave where the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones,

1 Kings 13:32 for the message that he cried out by the word of Yahveh against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines of the high places in the cities of Samaria is certain to happen.”

1 Kings 13:33 Even after this, Jeroboam did not repent of his evil way but again made priests for the high places from the ranks of the people. He ordained whoever so desired it, and they became priests of the high places.

1 Kings 13:34 This was the sin that caused the house of Jeroboam to be made to disappear and be exterminated[1] from the face of the land.

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[1] שָׁמַד = exterminate. 1 Kings 13:34; 15:29; 16:12.

links:

kachad
tempted to compromise – Devotions
the lure of fellowship

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1 Kings 12

1 Kings 12:1 Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, because all Israel had gone to Shechem to make him king.

1 Kings 12:2 When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about it, he stayed in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon’s presence. Jeroboam stayed in Egypt.

1 Kings 12:3 But they summoned him, and Jeroboam and the whole assembly of Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam:

1 Kings 12:4 “Your father made our yoke heavy. You, therefore, lighten your father’s harsh service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”

1 Kings 12:5 Rehoboam replied, “Go away for three days and then return to me.” So, the people left.

1 Kings 12:6 Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon when he was alive, asking, “How do you advise me to respond to this people?”

1 Kings 12:7 They replied, “Today if you will be a servant to this people and serve them, and if you respond to them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”

1 Kings 12:8 But he rejected the advice of the elders who had advised him and consulted with the young men who had grown up with him and attended him.

1 Kings 12:9 He asked them, “What message do you advise that we send back to this people who said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”

1 Kings 12:10 Then the young men who had grown up with him told him, “This is what you should say to this people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you, make it lighter on us! ‘ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!

1 Kings 12:11 Although my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with barbed whips.'”

1 Kings 12:12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had ordered: “Return to me on the third day.”

1 Kings 12:13 Then the king answered the people harshly. He rejected the advice the elders had given him

1 Kings 12:14 and spoke to them according to the young men’s advice: “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with barbed whips.”

1 Kings 12:15 The king did not listen to the people, because this turn of events came from Yahveh to carry out his word, which Yahveh had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.

1 Kings 12:16 When all Israel saw that the king had not listened to them, the people answered him: What future do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. Israel, return to your tents; David, now look after your own house! So, Israel went to their tents,

1 Kings 12:17 but Rehoboam reigned over the Israelites living in the cities of Judah.

1 Kings 12:18 Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who oversaw forced labor, but all Israel stoned him to death. King Rehoboam managed to get into the chariot and flee to Jerusalem.

1 Kings 12:19 Israel is still in rebellion against the house of David today.

1 Kings 12:20 When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had come back, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. No one followed the house of David except the tribe of Judah alone.

1 Kings 12:21 When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized one hundred eighty thousand fit young soldiers from the entire house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin to fight against the house of Israel to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.

1 Kings 12:22 But the word of God came to Shemaiah, the man of God:

1 Kings 12:23 “Say to Rehoboam son of Solomon, king of Judah, to the whole house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people,

1 Kings 12:24 ‘This is what Yahveh says: You are not to march up and fight against your brothers, the Israelites. Each of you return home, because this thing is from me.'” So they listened to the word of Yahveh and went back according to the word of Yahveh.

1 Kings 12:25 Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. From there he went out and built Penuel.

1 Kings 12:26 Jeroboam said to himself, “The kingdom might now return to the house of David.

1 Kings 12:27 If these people regularly go to offer sacrifices in Yahveh ‘s temple in Jerusalem, the heart of these people will return to their lord, King Rehoboam of Judah. They will kill me and go back to the king of Judah.”

1 Kings 12:28 So the king sought advice. Then he made two golden calves, and he said to the people, “Going to Jerusalem is too difficult for you. Israel, here are your gods who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

1 Kings 12:29 He set up one in Bethel, and put the other in Dan.

1 Kings 12:30 This led to sin; the people walked in procession before one of the calves all the way to Dan.

1 Kings 12:31 Jeroboam also made shrines on the high places and made priests from the ranks of the people who were not Levites.

1 Kings 12:32 Jeroboam made a festival in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month, like the festival in Judah. He offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had made. He also stationed the priests in Bethel for the high places he had made.

1 Kings 12:33 He offered sacrifices on the altar he had set up in Bethel on the fifteenth day of the eighth month. He chose this month on his own. He made a festival for the Israelites, offered sacrifices on the altar, and burned incense.

links:

ACST 2 The Promise
bad call – Devotions
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Friday, October 6, 2023
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Tuesday, October 8, 2019
the price of popularity

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1 Kings 11

1 Kings 11:1 King Solomon loved many foreign women in addition to Pharaoh’s daughter: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women

1 Kings 11:2 from the nations about which Yahveh had told the Israelites, “You must not marry them, and they must not marry you, because they will turn your heart away to follow their gods.” To these women Solomon was deeply attached in love.

1 Kings 11:3 He had seven hundred wives who were princesses and three hundred who were concubines, and they turned his heart away.

1 Kings 11:4 When Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away to follow other gods. He was not wholeheartedly devoted to Yahveh his God, as his father David had been.

1 Kings 11:5 Solomon followed Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, and Milcom, the abhorrent idol of the Ammonites.

1 Kings 11:6 Solomon did what was evil in Yahveh’s sight, and unlike his father David, he did not remain loyal to Yahveh.

1 Kings 11:7 At that time, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abhorrent idol of Moab, and for Milcom, the abhorrent idol of the Ammonites, on the hill across from Jerusalem.

1 Kings 11:8 He did the same for all his foreign wives, who were burning incense and offering sacrifices to their gods.

1 Kings 11:9 Yahveh was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from Yahveh, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.

1 Kings 11:10 He had commanded him about this, so that he would not follow other gods, but Solomon did not do what Yahveh had commanded.

1 Kings 11:11 Then Yahveh said to Solomon, “Since you have done this and did not keep my covenant and my statutes, which I commanded you, I will tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.

1 Kings 11:12 However, I will not do it during your lifetime for the sake of your father David; I will tear it out of your son’s hand.

1 Kings 11:13 Yet I will not tear the entire kingdom away from him. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem that I chose.”

1 Kings 11:14 So Yahveh raised up Hadad the Edomite as an enemy against Solomon. He was of the royal family in Edom.

1 Kings 11:15 Earlier, when David was in Edom, Joab, the commander of the army, had gone to bury the dead and had struck down every male in Edom.

1 Kings 11:16 For Joab and all Israel had remained there six months, until he had killed every male in Edom.

1 Kings 11:17 Hadad fled to Egypt, along with some Edomites from his father’s servants. At the time Hadad was a small boy.

1 Kings 11:18 Hadad and his men set out from Midian and went to Paran. They took men with them from Paran and went to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave Hadad a house, ordered that he be given food, and gave him land.

1 Kings 11:19 Pharaoh liked Hadad so much that he gave him a wife, the sister of his own wife, Queen Tahpenes.

1 Kings 11:20 Tahpenes’s sister gave birth to Hadad’s son Genubath. Tahpenes herself weaned him in Pharaoh’s palace, and Genubath lived there along with Pharaoh’s sons.

1 Kings 11:21 When Hadad heard in Egypt that David rested with his fathers and that Joab, the commander of the army, was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Let me leave, so I may go to my own land.”

1 Kings 11:22 But Pharaoh asked him, “What do you lack here with me for you to want to go back to your own land?” “Nothing,” he replied, “but please let me leave.”

1 Kings 11:23 God raised up Rezon son of Eliada as an enemy against Solomon. Rezon had fled from his master King Hadadezer of Zobah

1 Kings 11:24 and gathered men to himself. He became leader of a raiding party when David killed the Zobaites. He went to Damascus, lived there, and became king in Damascus.

1 Kings 11:25 Rezon was Israel’s enemy throughout Solomon’s reign, adding to the trouble Hadad had caused. He reigned over Aram and loathed Israel.

1 Kings 11:26 Now Solomon’s servant, Jeroboam son of Nebat, was an Ephraimite from Zeredah. His widowed mother’s name was Zeruah. Jeroboam rebelled against Solomon,

1 Kings 11:27 and this is the reason he rebelled against the king: Solomon had built the supporting terraces and repaired the opening in the wall of the city of his father David.

1 Kings 11:28 Now the man Jeroboam was capable, and Solomon noticed the boy because he was getting things done. So he appointed him over the entire labor force of the house of Joseph.

1 Kings 11:29 During that time, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met Jeroboam on the road as Jeroboam came out of Jerusalem. Now Ahijah had wrapped himself with a new cloak, and the two of them were alone in the open field.

1 Kings 11:30 Then Ahijah took hold of the new cloak he had on, tore it into twelve pieces,

1 Kings 11:31 and said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces for yourself, for this is what Yahveh God of Israel says: ‘I am about to tear the kingdom out of Solomon’s hand. I will give you ten tribes,

1 Kings 11:32 but one tribe will remain his for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I chose out of all the tribes of Israel.

1 Kings 11:33 For they have abandoned me; they have bowed down to Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, to Chemosh, the god of Moab, and to Milcom, the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in my ways to do what is right in my sight and to carry out my statutes and my judgments as his father David did.

1 Kings 11:34 ” ‘However, I will not take the whole kingdom from him but will let him be ruler all the days of his life for the sake of my servant David, whom I chose and who kept my commands and my statutes.

1 Kings 11:35 I will take ten tribes of the kingdom from his son and give them to you.

1 Kings 11:36 I will give one tribe to his son, so that my servant David will always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city I chose for myself to put my name there.

1 Kings 11:37 I will appoint you, and you will reign as king over all you want, and you will be king over Israel.

1 Kings 11:38 ” ‘After that, if you obey all I command you, walk in my ways, and do what is right in my sight in order to keep my statutes and my commands as my servant David did, I will be with you. I will build you a lasting dynasty just as I built for David, and I will give you Israel.

1 Kings 11:39 I will humble David’s descendants, because of their unfaithfulness, but not forever.'”

1 Kings 11:40 Therefore, Solomon tried to kill Jeroboam, but he fled to Egypt, to King Shishak of Egypt, where he remained until Solomon’s death.

1 Kings 11:41 The rest of the events of Solomon’s reign, along with all his accomplishments and his wisdom, are written in the Book of Solomon’s Events.

1 Kings 11:42 The length of Solomon’s reign in Jerusalem over all Israel totaled forty years.

1 Kings 11:43 Solomon rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David. His son Rehoboam became king in his place.

links:

adversaries
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Tuesday, November 8, 2016
not wholeheartedly devoted – Devotions
Sheol in the Bible- The Old Testament Consensus
the collector reflects on human nature

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