1 Kings 14:17-27

17 Then Jeroboam's wife arose and departed and came to ¹Tirzah. ²As she was entering the threshold of the house, the child died.

18 ³All 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, ⁴how 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 ⁵Now 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, ⁶the 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 ⁷Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they ⁸provoked Him to jealousy more than all that their fathers had done, with the sins which they committed.

23 For they also built for themselves ⁹high places and sacred ¹⁰pillars and ¹¹Asherim on every high hill and ¹²beneath every luxuriant tree.

24 There were also ¹³male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD dispossessed before * the sons of Israel.

25 ¹⁴Now it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, that Shishak the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.

26 He took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's house, and ¹⁵he took everything, ¹⁶even taking all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

27 So King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place, and ¹⁷committed them to the care of the commanders of the guard who guarded the doorway of the king's house.

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1 Kings 14:17-27 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 17

1. 1 Kings 15:21, 33; 1 Kings 16:6-9, 15, 23; Song of Songs 6:4
2. 1 Kings 14:12
3. 1 Kings 14:13
4. 1 Kings 14:30; 2 Chronicles 13:2-20
5. 2 Chronicles 12:13
6. 1 Kings 11:32, 36
7. 2 Chronicles 12:1, 14
8. Deuteronomy 32:21; Psalms 78:58; 1 Corinthians 10:22
9. Deuteronomy 12:2; Ezekiel 16:24
10. Deuteronomy 16:22
11. 1 Kings 14:15
12. 2 Kings 17:10; Isaiah 57:5; Jeremiah 2:20
13. Genesis 19:5; Deuteronomy 23:17; 1 Kings 15:12; 1 Kings 22:46; 2 Kings 23:7
14. 1 Kings 11:40; 2 Chronicles 12:2, 9
15. 1 Kings 15:18; 2 Chronicles 12:9
16. 1 Kings 10:17; 2 Chronicles 9:15, 16
17. 1 Samuel 8:11; 1 Samuel 22:17

Footnotes 6

[a]. Lit "their"
[b]. Lit "sinned"
[c]. I.e. wooden symbols of a female deity
[d]. Lit "and he took away"
[e]. Lit "hand"
[f]. Lit "runner"