1 Kings 3:17-18
3:17 One of the women said, “My master, this woman and I live in the same house. I had a baby while she was with me in the house.
3:18 Then three days after I had my baby, this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there was no one else in the house except the two of us.
1 Kings 12:19
12:19 So Israel has been in rebellion against the Davidic dynasty to this very day.
1 Kings 12:29
12:29 He put one in Bethel
and the other in Dan.
1 Kings 13:11
13:11 Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel. When his sons came home, they told their father everything the prophet had done in Bethel that day and all the words he had spoken to the king.
1 Kings 6:7
6:7 As the temple was being built, only stones shaped at the quarry
were used; the sound of hammers, pickaxes, or any other iron tool was not heard at the temple while it was being built.
1 Kings 8:31
8:31 “When someone is accused of sinning against his neighbor and the latter pronounces a curse on the alleged offender before your altar in this temple, be willing to forgive the accused if the accusation is false.
1 Kings 8:33
8:33 “The time will come when your people Israel are defeated by an enemy because they sinned against you. If they come back to you, renew their allegiance to you, and pray for your help in this temple,
1 Kings 12:32
12:32 Jeroboam inaugurated a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month,
like the festival celebrated in Judah.
On the altar in Bethel he offered sacrifices to the calves he had made.
In Bethel he also appointed priests for the high places he had made.
1 Kings 12:27
12:27 If these people go up to offer sacrifices in the
Lord’s temple in Jerusalem,
their loyalty could shift to their former master,
King Rehoboam of Judah. They might kill me and return to King Rehoboam of Judah.”
1 Kings 12:33
A Prophet from Judah Visits Bethel
12:33 On the fifteenth day of the eighth month (a date he had arbitrarily chosen) Jeroboam offered sacrifices on the altar he had made in Bethel. He inaugurated a festival for the Israelites and went up to the altar to offer sacrifices.
1 Kings 13:4
13:4 When the king heard what the prophet
cried out against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam, standing at the altar, extended his hand
and ordered,
“Seize him!” The hand he had extended shriveled up
and he could not pull it back.
1 Kings 13:32
13:32 for the prophecy he announced with the
Lord’s authority
against the altar in Bethel
and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north
will certainly be fulfilled.”
1 Kings 14:13
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.