1 Kings 14:9-16

9 you also have done more evil than all who were before you, and ¹have gone and made for yourself other gods and ²molten images to provoke Me to anger, and have ³cast Me behind your back -

10 therefore behold, I am bringing calamity on the house of Jeroboam, and ⁴will cut off from Jeroboam every male * person, ⁵both bond and free in Israel, and I ⁶will make a clean sweep of the house of Jeroboam, as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone.

11 "⁷Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city the dogs will eat. And he who dies in the field the birds of the heavens will eat; for the LORD has spoken it."'

12 "Now you, arise, go to your house. ⁸When your feet enter the city the child will die.

13 "All Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he alone of Jeroboam's family will come to the grave, because in him ⁹something good was found toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.

14 "Moreover, ¹⁰the 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 ¹¹He will uproot Israel from ¹²this good land which He gave to their fathers, and ¹³will scatter them beyond * the Euphrates River, ¹⁴because * they have made their Asherim, provoking the LORD to anger.

16 "He will give up Israel ¹⁵on account of the sins of Jeroboam, which he committed and with which he made Israel to sin."

1 Kings 14:9-16 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 12:28; 2 Chronicles 11:15
• 2. Exodus 34:17
• 3. Nehemiah 9:26; Psalms 50:17; Ezekiel 23:35
• 4. 1 Kings 21:21; 2 Kings 9:8
• 5. Deuteronomy 32:36; 2 Kings 14:26
• 6. 1 Kings 15:29
• 7. 1 Kings 16:4; 1 Kings 21:24
• 8. 1 Kings 14:17
• 9. 2 Chronicles 19:3
• 10. 1 Kings 15:27-29
• 11. Deuteronomy 29:28; 2 Kings 17:6; Psalms 52:5
• 12. Joshua 23:15, 16
• 13. 2 Kings 15:29
• 14. Exodus 34:13, 14; Deuteronomy 12:3, 4
• 15. 1 Kings 12:30; 1 Kings 13:34; 1 Kings 15:30, 34; 1 Kings 16:2

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "him who urinates against the wall"
• [b]. Lit "the one"
• [c]. Lit "and what even now?"
• [d]. I.e. wooden symbols of a female deity
• [e]. Lit "sinned"