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Text -- 1 Kings 14:1-24 (NET)

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14:1 At that time Jeroboam’s son Abijah became sick. 14:2 Jeroboam told his wife, “Disguise yourself so that people cannot recognize you are Jeroboam’s wife. Then go to Shiloh; Ahijah the prophet, who told me I would rule over this nation, lives there. 14:3 Take ten loaves of bread, some small cakes, and a container of honey and visit him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy.” 14:4 Jeroboam’s wife did as she was told. She went to Shiloh and visited Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see; he had lost his eyesight in his old age. 14:5 But the Lord had told Ahijah, “Look, Jeroboam’s wife is coming to find out from you what will happen to her son, for he is sick. Tell her so-and-so. When she comes, she will be in a disguise.” 14:6 When Ahijah heard the sound of her footsteps as she came through the door, he said, “Come on in, wife of Jeroboam! Why are you pretending to be someone else? I have been commissioned to give you bad news. 14:7 Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘This is what the Lord God of Israel says: “I raised you up from among the people and made you ruler over my people Israel. 14:8 I tore the kingdom away from the Davidic dynasty and gave it to you. But you are not like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me wholeheartedly by doing only what I approve. 14:9 You have sinned more than all who came before you. You went and angered me by making other gods, formed out of metal; you have completely disregarded me. 14:10 So I am ready to bring disaster on the dynasty of Jeroboam. I will cut off every last male belonging to Jeroboam in Israel, including even the weak and incapacitated. I will burn up the dynasty of Jeroboam, just as one burns manure until it is completely consumed. 14:11 Dogs will eat the members of your family who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country.”’ Indeed, the Lord has announced it! 14:12 “As for you, get up and go home. When you set foot in the city, the boy will die. 14:13 All Israel will mourn him and bury him. He is the only one in Jeroboam’s family who will receive a decent burial, for he is the only one in whom the Lord God of Israel found anything good. 14:14 The Lord will raise up a king over Israel who will cut off Jeroboam’s dynasty. It is ready to happen! 14:15 The Lord will attack Israel, making it like a reed that sways in the water. He will remove Israel from this good land he gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they angered the Lord by making Asherah poles. 14:16 He will hand Israel over to their enemies because of the sins which Jeroboam committed and which he made Israel commit.” 14:17 So Jeroboam’s wife got up and went back to Tirzah. As she crossed the threshold of the house, the boy died. 14:18 All Israel buried him and mourned for him, just as the Lord had predicted through his servant the prophet Ahijah.
Jeroboam’s Reign Ends
14:19 The rest of the events of Jeroboam’s reign, including the details of his battles and rule, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel. 14:20 Jeroboam ruled for twenty-two years; then he passed away. His son Nadab replaced him as king.
Rehoboam’s Reign over Judah
14:21 Now Rehoboam son of Solomon ruled in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord chose from all the tribes of Israel to be his home. His mother was an Ammonite woman named Naamah. 14:22 Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done. 14:23 They even built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. 14:24 There were also male cultic prostitutes in the land. They committed the same horrible sins as the nations that the Lord had driven out from before the Israelites.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Abijah the son and successor of King Rehoboam
 · Ahijah great grandson of Eli; brother of Ahimelech,son of Shisha; secretary of King Solomon,prophet from Shiloh in Jeroboam's time,a man of Issachar; father of Baasha who killed Jeroboam,son of Jerahmeel of Judah,son of Ehud son of Gera of Benjamin,a man from Beth-Pelet; one of David's military elite,a Levite guard of the Temple treasure under David
 · Ammonite the tribe/nation of people descended from Ben-Ammi, Lot's son,Territory of the tribe/nation of Ammon
 · Ammonites the tribe/nation of people descended from Ben-Ammi, Lot's son,Territory of the tribe/nation of Ammon
 · Beyond the Euphrates the region of Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates
 · beyond the Euphrates the region of Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates
 · David a son of Jesse of Judah; king of Israel,son of Jesse of Judah; king of Israel
 · Euphrates a large river which joins the Tigris river before flowing into the Persian Gulf,a river flowing from eastern Turkey to the Persian Gulf
 · Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel
 · Jeroboam son of Nebat; first king of Israel after it split away from Judah; Jeroboam I,son and successor of Joash/Jehoash, King of Israel; Jeroboam II
 · Jerusalem the capital city of Israel,a town; the capital of Israel near the southern border of Benjamin
 · Judah the son of Jacob and Leah; founder of the tribe of Judah,a tribe, the land/country,a son of Joseph; the father of Simeon; an ancestor of Jesus,son of Jacob/Israel and Leah; founder of the tribe of Judah,the tribe of Judah,citizens of the southern kingdom of Judah,citizens of the Persian Province of Judah; the Jews who had returned from Babylonian exile,"house of Judah", a phrase which highlights the political leadership of the tribe of Judah,"king of Judah", a phrase which relates to the southern kingdom of Judah,"kings of Judah", a phrase relating to the southern kingdom of Judah,"princes of Judah", a phrase relating to the kingdom of Judah,the territory allocated to the tribe of Judah, and also the extended territory of the southern kingdom of Judah,the Province of Judah under Persian rule,"hill country of Judah", the relatively cool and green central highlands of the territory of Judah,"the cities of Judah",the language of the Jews; Hebrew,head of a family of Levites who returned from Exile,a Levite who put away his heathen wife,a man who was second in command of Jerusalem; son of Hassenuah of Benjamin,a Levite in charge of the songs of thanksgiving in Nehemiah's time,a leader who helped dedicate Nehemiah's wall,a Levite musician who helped Zechariah of Asaph dedicate Nehemiah's wall
 · Naamah daughter of Lamech; sister of Tubal-Cain,the Ammonitess wife of Solomon; mother of Rehoboam,a town in the western foothills of Judah
 · Nadab son of Aaron,son and successor of King Jeroboam,son of Shammai of Judah,son of Jeiel of Benjamin
 · Rehoboam a son of Solomon; the father of Abijah; an ancestor of Jesus,son and successor of King Solomon
 · Shiloh a town having the Tent of Meeting in the time of Judges (IBD)
 · Solomon the tenth son of David; the father of Rehoboam; an ancestor of Jesus; the third king of Israel.,son of David and Bath-Sheba; successor of King David
 · Tirzah daughter of Zelophehad,a town of Manasseh 10 km NE of Shechem


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Abijah | Jeroboam | AHIJAH | Nadab | Prophecy | AHIAH, OR AHIJAH | Government | Judgments | Israel | REHOBOAM | Idolatry | Lies and Deceits | Tirzah | APOSTASY; APOSTATE | ABIJAH OR ABIJAM | GOD, 2 | Reed | Cruse | ISRAEL, KINGDOM OF | DOG | more
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NET Notes: 1Ki 14:1 Some mss of the Old Greek lack vv. 1-20.

NET Notes: 1Ki 14:2 Heb “look, Ahijah the prophet is there, he told me [I would be] king over this nation.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 14:3 Heb “take in your hand.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 14:4 Heb “his eyes were set because of his old age.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 14:5 Tell her so-and-so. Certainly the Lord gave Ahijah a specific message to give to Jeroboam’s wife (see vv. 6-16), but the author of Kings here co...

NET Notes: 1Ki 14:6 Heb “I am sent to you [with] a hard [message].”

NET Notes: 1Ki 14:7 The Hebrew text has “because” at the beginning of the sentence. In the Hebrew text vv. 7-11 are one long sentence comprised of a causal cl...

NET Notes: 1Ki 14:8 Heb “what was right in my eyes.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 14:9 Heb “you went and you made for yourself other gods, metal [ones], angering me, and you threw me behind your back.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 14:10 The traditional view understands the verb בָּעַר (ba’ar) to mean “burn.” Manure was sometimes us...

NET Notes: 1Ki 14:11 The Hebrew text has “belonging to Jeroboam” here.

NET Notes: 1Ki 14:13 Heb “house.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 14:14 Heb “This is the day. What also now?” The precise meaning of the second half of the statement is uncertain.

NET Notes: 1Ki 14:15 Asherah was a leading deity of the Canaanite pantheon, wife/sister of El and goddess of fertility. She was commonly worshiped at shrines in or near gr...

NET Notes: 1Ki 14:16 Heb “and he will give [up] Israel.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 14:17 Heb “went and entered.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 14:18 Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 14:19 Heb “As for the rest of the events of Jeroboam, how he fought and how he ruled, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of ...

NET Notes: 1Ki 14:20 Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 14:21 Heb “an Ammonite”; the word “woman” is implied.

NET Notes: 1Ki 14:22 Heb “and they made him jealous more than all which their fathers had done by their sins which they sinned.”

NET Notes: 1Ki 14:24 Heb “they did according to all the abominable acts of the nations.”

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