I Kings Chapter 14

Melachim | Kings

Go tell Jeroboam, Thus said Hashem, God of Israel: Inasmuch as I elevated you from the midst of the people and emplaced you as ruler over My people Israel,
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and I tore away the kingship from the house of David and gave it to you, but you were not like My servant David, who kept My commandments and who went after Me with all his heart, to do only what is proper in My eyes.
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But you have acted more wickedly than any who were before you, and you went and made yourself the gods of others and molten images to anger Me, and you have cast Me behind your back.
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For Hashem will smite Israel as a reed lurches about in the water, and He will uproot Israel from upon this bountiful land that He gave to their forefathers, and He will scatter them beyond the [Euphrates] River — because they have made their Asherah-trees, angering Hashem.
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The duration of Jeroboam’s reign was twenty-two years; then he lay with his forefathers and Nadab his son reigned in his place.
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[The people of] Judah did evil in the eyes of Hashem, angering Him more than their ancestors had done with the sins they committed.
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They, too, built for themselves high places and pillars and Asherah-trees on every lofty hill and under every leafy tree.
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There was also prostitution in the land; they did all the abominations of the nations that Hashem had driven out from before the Children of Israel.
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There was warfare between Rehoboam and Jeroboam, all the days.
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Rehoboam lay with his forefathers and was buried with his forefathers in the City of David. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. Abijam his son reigned in his place.
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Daily Holy Bible Reading

1 At this time Abijah, the son of Jeroboam, fell sick.
2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, “Arise now and disguise yourself so that [people] should not know that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and you shall go to Shilo, Behold there is Ahijah, the prophet; He spoke about me that [I would] be king over this people.
3 And you shall take in your hand ten loaves [of bread] and biscuits and a flask of honey, and come to him. He will tell you what will be of the child.”
4 And Jeroboam’s wife did so, and she arose and went to Shilo and came to the house of Ahijah; Ahijah could not see for his eyes were still because of his advanced age.
5 Now the Lord had said to Ahijah, “Behold the wife of Jeroboam is coming to ask of you concerning her son as he is sick; you shall speak to her thus and thus.” -And it was, when she arrived she was disguised.
6 And it was as Ahijah heard the sound of her footsteps into the doorway, that he said, “Come in, Jeroboam’s wife. Why are you disguised? I am sent to you to tell you harsh tidings.
7 Go say to Jeroboam, So has the Lord the God of Israel said, ‘Since I raised you from amidst the people and I made you the ruler over my people Israel.
8 And I tore the kingdom from the House of David and I gave it to you. But you have not been like My servant David, who heeded My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart to do only what was proper in My eyes.
9 And you have done worse than all that were before you and you have gone and made for yourself foreign gods and molten images to anger Me, and you have cast Me behind your back.
10 Therefore, I shall bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam, and I will cut off from Jeroboam every male child and those who are restrained and those who are free in Israel, and I will expunge after the house of Jeroboam as one expunges dung, until it is completed.
11 The dead of Jeroboam in the city the dogs shall eat, and the dead in the field, the birds of the heaven shall eat, because the Lord has spoken.
12 And you arise and go to your house; as your feet come into the city, the child shall die.
13 And all of Israel shall eulogize him and bury him, for he alone of Jeroboam shall come to a grave, because there is found in him a good deed toward the Lord, the God of Israel, in the House of Jeroboam.
14 And the Lord shall raise for Himself a king over Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam this day, and also those who will be (born) from now on.
15 And the Lord shall smite Israel as a reed sways in the water, and He will uproot Israel from this good land that He has given to your fathers and He will scatter them on the other side of the river because they have made their trees of idol worship which anger the Lord.
16 And he will put Israel [to shame] because of the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned and that he has caused Israel to sin.”
17 And Jeroboam’s wife arose, and she went and arrived in Tirzah; she came onto the threshold of the house, and the youth died.
18 And all of Israel buried him and eulogized him as the word of the Lord that He spoke through his servant Ahijah the Shilonite.
19 And the rest of the events of Jeroboam that he fought and how he ruled are written in the book of Chronicles of the kings of Israel.
20 And the days that Jeroboam reigned were twenty-two years and he slept with his forefathers, and his son Nadab ruled instead of him.
21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon ruled in Judah; forty-one years of age was Rehoboam when he became king and seventeen years he reigned in Jerusalem, the city that the Lord had chosen to place His Name there out of all the tribes of Israel, and his mother’s name was Naamah the Amonitess.
22 And Judah did what displeased the Lord, and they angered Him more than their forefathers had done with their sins that they sinned.
23 And they, too, built for themselves high places, monuments and trees for idol worship on every high hill and under every green tree.
24 And also adultery was in the land; they did as all the abominations of the nations that the Lord had driven out from before the Children of Israel.
25 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak, the king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem.
26 And he took the treasures of the House of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s palace, and he took everything; and he took all the golden shields that Solomon had made.
27 King Rehoboam made copper shields instead of them, and he put them under the jurisdiction of the captain of the runners that guarded the door of the king’s palace.
28 And it was, whenever the king went to the house of the Lord, the runners would carry them and return them to the runners’ chamber.
29 And the rest of the events of Rehoboam and all that he did, they are written in the book of Chronicles of the kings of Judah.
30 And there was a war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
31 And Rehoboam lay with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the City of David, and his mother’s name was Naamah, the Amonitess, and Abijam his son reigned in his place.

Exposé | Moral

Worshiping Other G-ds (Jesus, Trinity, Triune or 3-in-1 G-d)

Is considered evil in the eyes of the One True G-d Of Israel.

But why?

Listen or read this chapter to learn and to know… about those who disobey G-d’s commandments!