# 1 Kings 14 📖: Judgment on Jeroboam's House [[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[-1 Kings Overview]] | [[1 Kings 13]] | [[1 Kings 15]] > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] > [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights]] > [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] > [[#✝️ Christ in This Chapter]] > [[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]] > [[#💬 Discussion Questions]] > [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference]] > [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] > [[#📂 Internal Notes]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) [[#Verse 01.]] At that time Jeroboam’s son Abijah became sick.  [[#Verse 02.]] Jeroboam told his wife, “Disguise yourself so that people cannot recognize you are Jeroboam’s wife. Then go to Shiloh; Ahijah the prophet, who told me I would rule over this nation, lives there.  [[#Verse 03.]] Take ten loaves of bread, some small cakes, and a container of honey and visit him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy.” [[#Verse 04.]] Jeroboam’s wife did as she was told. She went to Shiloh and visited Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see; he had lost his eyesight in his old age. [[#Verse 05.]] But the Lord had told Ahijah, “Look, Jeroboam’s wife is coming to find out from you what will happen to her son, for he is sick. Tell her such and such. When she comes, she will be in a disguise.”  [[#Verse 06.]] When Ahijah heard the sound of her footsteps as she came through the door, he said, “Come on in, wife of Jeroboam! Why are you pretending to be someone else? I have been commissioned to give you bad news.  [[#Verse 07.]] Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘This is what the Lord God of Israel has said: “I raised you up from among the people and made you ruler over my people Israel.  [[#Verse 08.]] I tore the kingdom away from the Davidic dynasty and gave it to you. But you are not like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me wholeheartedly by doing only what I approve.  [[#Verse 09.]] You have sinned more than all who came before you. You went and angered me by making other gods, formed out of metal; you have completely disregarded me.  [[#Verse 10.]] So I am ready to bring disaster on the dynasty of Jeroboam. I will cut off every last male belonging to Jeroboam in Israel, including even the weak and incapacitated. I will burn up the dynasty of Jeroboam, just as one burns manure until it is completely consumed.  [[#Verse 11.]] Dogs will eat the members of your family who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country.”’ Indeed, the Lord has announced it! [[#Verse 12.]] “As for you, get up and go home. When you set foot in the city, the boy will die.  [[#Verse 13.]] All Israel will mourn him and bury him. He is the only one in Jeroboam’s family who will receive a decent burial, for he is the only one in whom the Lord God of Israel found anything good.  [[#Verse 14.]] The Lord will raise up a king over Israel who will cut off Jeroboam’s dynasty. It is ready to happen!  [[#Verse 15.]] The Lord will attack Israel, making it like a reed that sways in the water. He will remove Israel from this good land he gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they angered the Lord by making Asherah poles.  [[#Verse 16.]] He will hand Israel over to their enemies because of the sins which Jeroboam committed and which he made Israel commit.” [[#Verse 17.]] So Jeroboam’s wife got up and went back to Tirzah. As she crossed the threshold of the house, the boy died.  [[#Verse 18.]] All Israel buried him and mourned for him, in keeping with the Lord’s message that he had spoken through his servant, the prophet Ahijah. ## Jeroboam’s Reign Ends [[#Verse 19.]] The rest of the events of Jeroboam’s reign, including the details of his battles and rule, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel.  [[#Verse 20.]] Jeroboam ruled for twenty-two years; then he passed away. His son Nadab replaced him as king. ## Rehoboam’s Reign over Judah [[#Verse 21.]] Now Rehoboam son of Solomon ruled in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord chose from all the tribes of Israel to be his home. His mother was an Ammonite woman named Naamah. [[#Verse 22.]] Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done.  [[#Verse 23.]] They even built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.  [[#Verse 24.]] There were also male cultic prostitutes in the land. They committed the same horrible sins as the nations that the Lord had driven out from before the Israelites. [[#Verse 25.]] In King Rehoboam’s fifth year, King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.  [[#Verse 26.]] He took away the treasures of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace; he took everything, including all the golden shields that Solomon had made.  [[#Verse 27.]] King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned them to the officers of the royal guard who protected the entrance to the royal palace.  [[#Verse 28.]] Whenever the king visited the Lord’s temple, the royal guard carried them and then brought them back to the guardroom. [[#Verse 29.]] The rest of the events of Rehoboam’s reign, including his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.  [[#Verse 30.]] Rehoboam and Jeroboam were continually at war with each other.  [[#Verse 31.]] Rehoboam passed away and was buried with his ancestors in the City of David. His mother was an Ammonite named Naamah. His son Abijah replaced him as king. ## 📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ###### Verse 19. ###### Verse 20. ###### Verse 21. ###### Verse 22. ###### Verse 23. ###### Verse 24. ###### Verse 25. ###### Verse 26. ###### Verse 27. ###### Verse 28. ###### Verse 29. ###### Verse 30. ###### Verse 31. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights 1. Jeroboam's wife went to Ahijah in disguise (14:2), but the Lord had already told the prophet she was coming (14:5). 2. Ahijah could no longer see because of old age (14:4). 3. The boy died as his mother stepped into the house at Tirzah (14:17), which became Israel's royal city for a time. 4. Only Jeroboam's son would receive a proper burial, because something good was found in him (14:13). 5. Ahijah predicted that Israel would be scattered beyond the Euphrates (14:15), fulfilled when Assyria conquered Israel in 722 BC. 6. Rehoboam was 41 when he became king and reigned 17 years in Jerusalem (14:21). 7. Rehoboam's mother, Naamah, was an Ammonite (14:21, 31). 8. Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem in Rehoboam's fifth year (14:25), and an inscription at the Karnak temple in Egypt lists towns from his campaign in the region. 9. Shishak carried off the temple and palace treasures, including Solomon's gold shields (14:26). 10. The chapter mentions the Annals of the Kings of Israel and of Judah (14:19, 29), royal records that are now lost. ## 🧠 Chapter Summary > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## ✝️ Christ in This Chapter Christ is the true glory that cannot be imitated. Rehoboam replaced the gold shields with bronze copies (14:26-27), but Jesus is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of His being (Hebrews 1:3). ## 🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## 💬 Discussion Questions 1. Jeroboam's wife put on a disguise, but God told the blind prophet who she was (14:2-6). What does that teach about hiding from God? 2. God noticed something good in Jeroboam's young son (14:13). What comfort is there in knowing God sees every heart? 3. Rehoboam replaced gold with bronze and kept up appearances (14:26-28). Where are we tempted to settle for a cheap imitation of real faith? ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - 📖 verse 8: David followed God with all his heart and did only what was right. - 📖 verse 13: God found something pleasing in Jeroboam's son. - 📖 verses 26-27: Shishak takes the gold shields, and Rehoboam makes bronze ones to replace them. ## 🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference - 🔗 [[1 Kings 11#Verse 29.|1 Kings 11:29-31]] - Ahijah's earlier prophecy to Jeroboam. - 🔗 [[2 Chronicles 12#Verse 01.|2 Chronicles 12:1-12]] - Shishak's invasion and Rehoboam's humbling. - 🔗 [[Psalm 139#Verse 01.|Psalm 139:1-4]] - The Lord knows us completely. - 🔗 [[Hebrews 01#Verse 03.|Hebrews 1:3]] - The Son is the radiance of God's glory. - 🔗 [[2 Timothy 03#Verse 05.|2 Timothy 3:5]] - Having the appearance of godliness but denying its power. ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection 📝 SOAP: [[1 Kings 14 - SOAP|Cheap Imitation]] ## 📂 Internal Notes