We have already met Rehoboam. He is Solomon’s son who alienated most of Israel. Now we get to look at his time on the throne. Our Bible gives us two different authors who look at the kings of Judah. Chronicles focuses strictly on the kings of Judah. Second Chronicles tells the stories of Solomon on […]
Jeroboam’s child is sick and there is nothing he can do about it. Rather than calling out to God, he sends his wife in disguise to learn his fate. Jeroboam KNOWS that he is on the wrong side of the Lord. He is afraid to go himself to the prophet Ahijah. He is even afraid […]
Jeroboam’s god is NOT acceptable as an option in God’s eyes. God sends His servant to say so. He is tricked int a NOT acceptable act too. We knew from the beginning that God was NOT going to like what Jeroboam has done. The first commandment should have prevented such an act. But Jeroboam was […]
The nation of Israel has been torn in two, leaving two kingdoms. Jeroboam calls the people to ‘look here for your gods’ instead of Jerusalem. God gave Jeroboam the same conditional promise that He gave Saul, David, and Solomon. The same promise He gave Israel from day one. Even to Abraham as he called him […]
Solomon is now sleeping with his ancestors. His son Rehoboam takes the throne. He gets dreadful advice from the start. The kingdom is torn in two. As hard as it is to stomach, this ‘dreadful advice’ was God ordained. NOT that God forced the words out of the mouths of Rehoboam’s friends, or even made […]