Ch 14 / 22~5 min
Melachim Alef

Chapter 14

Idols Cannot Bear What Yeshua Bears

Ahijah's devastating prophecy of judgement on Jeroboam's house foreshadow the accountability every generation faces — and Yeshua as the only shelter from divine judgement.

  1. Judgement on Jeroboam's House

    Elohim pronounces judgement on Jeroboam's entire dynasty. The sin of leading others astray carries the heaviest consequences.

  2. 1At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick.
  3. 2Jeroboam said to his wife, “Please get up and disguise yourself, so that you won’t be recognised as Jeroboam’s wife. Go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who said that I would be king over this people.
  4. 3Take with you ten loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will become of the child.”
  5. 4Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose and went to Shiloh, and came to Ahijah’s house. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were set by reason of his age.
  6. 5YHWH said to Ahijah, “Behold, Jeroboam’s wife is coming to enquire of you concerning her son, for he is sick. Tell her such and such; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will pretend to be another woman.”
  7. 6So when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the door, he said, “Come in, Jeroboam’s wife! Why do you pretend to be another? For I am sent to you with heavy news.
  8. 7Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, says: Because I exalted you from amongst the people, and made you prince over my people Israel,
  9. 8and tore the kingdom away from David’s house, and gave it to you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my mitzvot, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes,
  10. 9but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods, molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back,
  11. 10therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates on a wall, he who is shut up and he who is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung until it is all gone.
  12. 11The dogs will eat whoever belongs to Jeroboam who dies in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat whoever dies in the field, for YHWH has spoken it.”’
  13. 12Arise therefore, and go to your house. When your feet enter into the city, the child will die.
  14. 13All Israel will mourn for him and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam will come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing towards YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.
  15. 14Moreover YHWH will raise up a king for himself over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is the day! What? Even now.
  16. 15For YHWH will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking YHWH to anger.
  17. 16He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin.
  18. 17Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed, and came to Tirzah. As she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.
  19. 18All Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to YHWH’s word, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.
  20. 19The rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
  21. 20The days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty two years; then he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.
  22. Rehoboam's Unfaithful Reign

    Rehoboam leads Judah into idolatry and moral decay. The southern kingdom begins its own slow slide away from the Father.

  23. 21Rehoboam 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, the city which YHWH had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
  24. 22Judah did that which was evil in YHWH’s sight, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.
  25. 23For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
  26. 24There were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which YHWH drove out before the children of Israel.
  27. 25In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;
  28. 26and he took away the treasures of YHWH’s house and the treasures of the king’s house. He even took away all of it, including all the gold shields which Solomon had made.
  29. 27King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who guarded the door of the king’s house.
  30. 28It was so, that as often as the king went into YHWH’s house, the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard room.
  31. 29Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
  32. 30There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
  33. 31Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. Abijam his son reigned in his place.
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