1 Kings 14:14-24

14 "Moreover, ¹the LORD will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam this day and from now on.

15 "For the LORD will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and ²He will uproot Israel from ³this good land which He gave to their fathers, and ⁴will scatter them beyond * the Euphrates River, ⁵because * they have made their Asherim, provoking the LORD to anger.

16 "He will give up Israel ⁶on account of the sins of Jeroboam, which he committed and with which he made Israel to sin."

17 Then Jeroboam's wife arose and departed and came to ⁷Tirzah. ⁸As she was entering the threshold of the house, the child died.

18 ⁹All Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD which He spoke through His servant Ahijah the prophet.

19 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, ¹⁰how he made war and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles * of the Kings of Israel.

20 The time that Jeroboam reigned was twenty-two * years; and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.

Rehoboam Misleads Judah

21 ¹¹Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one * years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen * years in Jerusalem, ¹²the city which the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to put His name there. And his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

22 ¹³Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they ¹⁴provoked Him to jealousy more than all that their fathers had done, with the sins which they committed.

23 For they also built for themselves ¹⁵high places and sacred ¹⁶pillars and ¹⁷Asherim on every high hill and ¹⁸beneath every luxuriant tree.

24 There were also ¹⁹male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD dispossessed before * the sons of Israel.

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1 Kings 14:14-24 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 14

This chapter relates the sickness of Jeroboam's son, the application of his wife, at his instance, to the prophet Ahijah, in the child's favour, 1Ki 14:1-6, the prophecy of the prophet concerning the ruin of Jeroboam's house, and the death of the child, which came to pass, 1Ki 14:7-18, an account of the years of Jeroboam's reign, and also of Rehoboam's, 1Ki 14:19-21, and of the evil things done and suffered by the latter in his kingdom, and the calamities that came upon him for it, 1Ki 14:22-28 and the conclusion of his reign, 1Ki 14:29-31.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 19

1. 1 Kings 15:27-29
2. Deuteronomy 29:28; 2 Kings 17:6; Psalms 52:5
3. Joshua 23:15, 16
4. 2 Kings 15:29
5. Exodus 34:13, 14; Deuteronomy 12:3, 4
6. 1 Kings 12:30; 1 Kings 13:34; 1 Kings 15:30, 34; 1 Kings 16:2
7. 1 Kings 15:21, 33; 1 Kings 16:6-9, 15, 23; Song of Songs 6:4
8. 1 Kings 14:12
9. 1 Kings 14:13
10. 1 Kings 14:30; 2 Chronicles 13:2-20
11. 2 Chronicles 12:13
12. 1 Kings 11:32, 36
13. 2 Chronicles 12:1, 14
14. Deuteronomy 32:21; Psalms 78:58; 1 Corinthians 10:22
15. Deuteronomy 12:2; Ezekiel 16:24
16. Deuteronomy 16:22
17. 1 Kings 14:15
18. 2 Kings 17:10; Isaiah 57:5; Jeremiah 2:20
19. Genesis 19:5; Deuteronomy 23:17; 1 Kings 15:12; 1 Kings 22:46; 2 Kings 23:7

Footnotes 6

[a]. Lit "and what even now?"
[b]. I.e. wooden symbols of a female deity
[c]. Lit "sinned"
[d]. Lit "their"
[e]. Lit "sinned"
[f]. I.e. wooden symbols of a female deity