The Strand Study Bible

I KINGS 14:9

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I KINGS 14:27

. The death of Jeroboam I (Note - Jeroboam ruled Israel 22 years) Date - 948 BC/AM 3052 The co-reign of Nadab (Note - This event took place in the 2nd year of King Asa’s reign) Date - 948 BC/AM 3052

9 But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me be- hind thy back: The promise to destroy Jeroboam I’s seed (Fulfilled - I Ki 15:27-29 - 947 BC) 10 Therefore, behold, 1 I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off fromJeroboam 2 himthat pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone. P 11 1 Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath spoken it. P 12 Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet enter into the city, 3 the child shall die. P 13 3 And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some 4 good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam. P 14 Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a 5 king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now. P 15 For the LORD shall 6 smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, 7 and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them be- yond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger. P 16 And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin. 17 And Jeroboam’s wife arose, and de- parted, and came to Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door, 8 the child died; PF 18 And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, 8 according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet. PF READ NEXT - I Kings 14:21 - 15:16 The promise of Israel’s fall to Assyria (Fulfilled - II Ki 17:6 & 18:10,11 - 721 BC)

1. Fulfilled -

I Ki 15:27-29 (Jeroboam I’s Seed Destroyed) 2. The phrase ( him that pisseth against the wall ) refers to all the males in Israel. 3. Fulfilled - I Ki 14:17-18 (Death of Jeroboam I’s Son) 4. God called the death of Jeroboam’s child a good thing . Why would a life not lived be a good thing ? There can only be one conclusion: God had better plans for the child in Heaven ( Mt 19: 13- 14 ). 5. Fulfilled - I Ki 15:27-29 (Baasha To Reign)

19 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he 9 warred, and how he reigned, behold, 10 they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. 20 And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead. 21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother’s name was Naa- mah an Ammonitess. 22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done. 23 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. 24 And there were also 11 sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel. READ NEXT - I Kings 15:25-34 King Rehoboam’s wickedness (S/A - II Chro 12:1) 25 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that 12 Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem: 26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king’s house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold 13 which Solomon had made. 27 And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king’s house. The LORD chastens Rehoboam (King of Judah) through Shishak (King of Egypt) (S/A - II Chro 12:2-12) Date - 966 BC/AM 3034

6. II Ki 15:29 & I Chro 5:25-26 7. Fulfilled - II KI 17:6 & 18:10-11 (Fall of Israel) 8. See - I Ki 14:12-13

9. I Ki 14:30 & 15:6 10. II Chro 12:15 - 13:20 11. Gen 13:12-13 & 18:20 & 19:24-25 & Lev 18:22 & 20:13 & Deut 23:17-18 & Jud 19:22-23 & I Ki 15:11-12 & Rom 1:24-32 & I Cor 6:9 & Jude 7 12. or, “Shosheng I” - I Ki 11:40 13. I Ki 10:16-17

14:26 According to secular history and archaeology, Shishak’s son and predecessor (Osorkon I) recorded on a granite pillar in a temple at Bubaatis that he had given over 383 tons of gold and silver to his gods. We can only conclude that much of the gold and silver that Osorkon I gave came from Solomon and the city of Jerusalem, whom his father (Shishak) had plundered. ( he even took all away ).