1 Kings 14:14-24

14 ¹Moreover, the Lord will raise up for himself a king over Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam today. And henceforth,

15 the Lord will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water, and ²root up Israel out of ³this good land that he gave to their fathers and scatter them ⁴beyond the Euphrates, ^[a] because they have made their ⁵Asherim, provoking the Lord to anger.

16 And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he sinned and made Israel to sin. ”

17 Then Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed and came to ⁶Tirzah. And ⁷as she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.

18 And all Israel buried him and mourned for him, ⁸according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.

The Death of Jeroboam

19 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, ⁹how he warred and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

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

Rehoboam Reigns in Judah

21 ¹⁰Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, ¹¹the city that the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. ¹²His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.

22 ¹³And Judah did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and they ¹⁴provoked him to jealousy with their sins that they committed, more than all that their fathers had done.

23 For they also built for themselves ¹⁵high places ¹⁶and pillars and ¹⁷Asherim on every high hill and ¹⁸under every green tree,

24 and there were also ¹⁹male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.

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.

Cross References

• 1. 14:14 See ch. 15:27-29
• 2. 14:15 Deut. 29:28; Ps. 52:5; Prov. 2:22
• 3. 14:15 Josh. 23:15, 16
• 4. 14:15 [2 Kgs. 15:29]
• 5. 14:15 Ex. 34:13; Deut. 12:3
• 6. 14:17 ch. 15:21, 33; 16:6, 8, 15, 23
• 7. 14:17 ver. 12
• 8. 14:18 ver. 13
• 9. 14:19 See 2 Chr. 13:2-20
• 10. 14:21 2 Chr. 12:13
• 11. 14:21 ch. 11:32, 36
• 12. 14:21 2 Chr. 12:13
• 13. 14:22 [2 Chr. 12:1, 14]
• 14. 14:22 See Num. 25:11
• 15. 14:23 See Deut. 12:2
• 16. 14:23 See Ex. 23:24
• 17. 14:23 ver. 15
• 18. 14:23 Deut. 12:2; 2 Kgs. 16:4; Isa. 57:5; Jer. 2:20
• 19. 14:24 See Deut. 23:17

Footnotes

• [a] 14:15 Hebrew 'the River'