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1 Kings Chapter 14
Prophecy Against Jeroboam
- 1Kings 14:1 At that
time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
- 2 And Jeroboam said
to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou
be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh:
behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should
be king over this people.
Even after his hand was healed written
about in the previous chapter 13, we learn that Jeroboam did not stop the evil but
continued in it. This caused him to lose his son. He brought all
this on himself.
- 1 Kings 14:3 And
take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey,
and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the
child.
- 4 And Jeroboam's
wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the
house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set
by reason of his age.
Jereboam actually thought the gifts and
pretense along with Ahijah's blindness would cause him to be
deceived. He forgot that God is not blind. He should have put away
his idolatry, humbled himself before God and repented for real. True
repentance is not word only but in deads and in truth.
- 1 Kings 14:5 And the
LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to
ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus
shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in,
that she shall feign herself to be another woman.
- 6 And it was so,
when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the
door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest
thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee with heavy
tidings.
- 7 Go, tell Jeroboam,
Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee
from among the people, and made thee prince over my people
Israel,
- 8 And rent the
kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet
thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my
commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that
only which was right in mine eyes;
- 9 But hast done evil
above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made
thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and
hast cast me behind thy back:
- 10 Therefore,
behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will
cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him
that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the
remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung,
till it be all gone.
- 11 Him that dieth of
Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in
the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath
spoken it.
- 12 Arise thou
therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet enter
into the city, the child shall die.
- 13 And all Israel
shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall
come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing
toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
The child that died was the only
decendant of Jeroboam that was placed in a grave. The others were
destroyed and not even fit for burial.
This was fulfilled 20 years later. This
account is found in 1 Kings chapter 15.
- 1 Kings 14:15 For
the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water,
and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave
to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river,
because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to
anger.
- 16 And he shall give
Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who
made Israel to sin.
Idolatry and departing from God caused
this destruction of a nation. It always will. No nation will get
away with departing from God and worshiping false gods who are not
real gods.
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1 Kings 14:17 And
Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and
when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;
Immediate fulfillment of prophecy, the
death of the seen of Jeroboam is a later fulfillment of prophecy.
Jeroboam's evil departure from God
caused the death of his son. One good thing is that the son will not
be lost for eternity. Jeroboam even tried to deceive the prophet of
God. He should have known that God sees all things and would know
what was going on. He sees our thoughts and intentions. God hates
false religion, idol worship and worship of false god. False worship
attracts evil wicked spirits to take over the whole nation. It will
cause people to kill their own children, even sacrifice them to
those idols. Modern day abortion practices is similar but deceptive
because they make it look like a medical decision instead of murder.
Idolatry and departing from God causes hate,
suffering, selfishness, and greed. Sexual immorality causes diseas
and early death. It causes wars, fighting and much misery. God has a
better way to live.
The Death of Jeroboam
- 1Kings 14:19 And the
rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned,
behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel.
- 20 And the days
which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept
with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
Another king chosen by God makes the
wrong decisions, rebels against the only one that could grant him
good things and chose to worship dead things with no life.
In 1 Kings Chapter 11 we see that Solomon
turned away from God and the kingdom that was united under David was
to be split again because of the sin of Solomon and given to one of
Solomon's servants. God through the prophet Ahijah spoke to Jeroboam
and said that he would become king of 10 tribes. One tribe, the
tribe of Judah would stay in the line of David.
Solomon when he found this out tried to kill
Jeroboam like King Saul tried to kill David when he knew David was
going to take his place. Now we see Jeroboam committing idolatry and
doing the exact same thing that Solomon did. They never seem to
learn. God help us learn to follow Him all the days of our lives. We
see also the son of Solomon, Rehoboam knowing all these things but
does evil also. Idolatry is an evil, evil sin because it is like
biting the hand that feeds us, created us and gave us good things.
Rehoboam Reigns in Judah
- 1Kings 14:21 And
Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty
and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose
out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his
mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
- 22 And Judah did
evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy
with their sins which they had committed, above all that their
fathers had done.
- 23 For they also
built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high
hill, and under every green tree.
- 24 And there were
also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the
abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the
children of Israel.
- 25 And it came to
pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of
Egypt came up against Jerusalem:
- 26 And he took away
the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the
king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the
shields of gold which Solomon had made.
- 27 And king Rehoboam
made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto the
hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the
king's house.
- 28 And it was so,
when the king went into the house of the LORD, that the guard
bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.
- 29 Now the rest of
the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written
in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
- 30 And there was war
between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
- 31 And Rehoboam
slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the
city of David. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.
The sins of the father influences and
unless their children turn to God by on their own, they do the same
things and usually do worse things unless they miraculously meet
someone in their lives that has a good influence on them.
Idolatry will steal, kill and destroy
our very souls and cause the downfall of our children as well. It is
grievious to read these things. God has so much better things for us
than idols that cannot speak, hear or do good or evil can
accomplish. To worship an object of any kind is one of the stupidest
choice a person can make. The spirit of demonic forces accompany any
false worship that is not toward our creator who made heaven and
earth. God gave us good things but we are not to worship the things
but worship our creator only. We need the real God who had to send
His own Son to take our place and pay for our sins so that when we
receive Him into our lives, it reverses the curse. We can be
delivered from the powers of darkness and walk in the kingdom of
light. We can have the Holy Spirit from God living within our very
innermost being. God has a better way. We don't need the junk. DC
1 Kings Chapter 15
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