1 Kings 14:9-10

9 You have done more evil than all who lived before you. You have made for yourself other gods, idols made of metal; you have aroused my anger and turned your back on me.

10 “ ‘Because of this, I am going to bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam. I will cut off from Jeroboam every last male in Israel—slave or free.^[a] I will burn up the house of Jeroboam as one burns dung, until it is all gone.

1 Kings 14:9-10 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.

Cross References

• 1. 1 Kings 16:30,33; 1 Kings 21:25; 2 Kings 21:9,11; 2 Kings 24:3
• 2. 1 Kings 16:2
• 3. S Exodus 20:4; S Exodus 32:4; Exodus 34:17; 1 Kings 12:28; 2 Chronicles 11:15
• 4. Deuteronomy 32:16; 1 Kings 16:2; Psalms 78:58; Jeremiah 7:18; Jeremiah 8:19; Jeremiah 32:32; Jeremiah 44:3; Ezekiel 8:17; Ezekiel 16:26
• 5. Nehemiah 9:26; Psalms 50:17; Jeremiah 2:27; Jeremiah 32:33; Ezekiel 23:35
• 6. S Joshua 23:15; S 1 Kings 13:34
• 7. S Deuteronomy 32:36; 1 Kings 21:21; 2 Kings 9:8-9; 2 Kings 14:26
• 8. 1 Samuel 12:25; 1 Samuel 15:26; 1 Kings 15:29; Hosea 13:11

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "Israel—every ruler or leader"