Jeroboam

1 Kings 12 - Rehoboam and Jeroboam A. Rehoboam and the division of Israel. 1. (1-5) the elders of Israel offer Rehoboam the throne of Israel. And Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone to Shechem to make him king. So it happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard it (he was still in Egypt, for he had fled from the presence of King Solomon and had been dwelling in Egypt), that they sent and called him. Then Jeroboam and the whole assembly of Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying

who had served Solomon and instead enforces a stricter rule on the people. Although the split between Israel and Judah is not explicitly made official, chapter 11 foreshadows the split as it profiles the emergence of a rival leader in the form of Jeroboam. The chapter talks about how Rehoboam gains power through building up his family and building up cities in preparation for fighting against the rest of Israel. Rehoboam abandons the law of the Lord and is attacked by the king of Egypt. God had originally

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Covenant (a sign to the people that God is with them) are very important for J (2 Samuel 5,6). I want to emphasize that political and religious systems were very close in that time: J never mentioned Joshua in her passages because he is from Ephraim (Jeroboam is from Ephraim) and in Num.25:1-5 J writes that men from Israel began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women and God said Moses to kill them. This is political decision because Moabites were enemies of Israel. Also J author has several

Next, we read in verses two to three: “To whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.” Like many of the prophetic Books, we are given the range of Jeremiah’s career as a prophet to the nation which spanned

the Israelites named Jeroboam appointed priests to worship and reverence these creatures. (After King Solomon’s death, the nation of Israelites split into two nations with King Jeroboam reigning over the majority of the people; his influence became pervasive. ) Moreover, the text states that King Jeroboam acknowledged the Seirim; goat devils and made ‘any’ person a priest of the high places: (locations of orgies), “whosoever would,” he consecrated them. Openly, Jeroboam became extremely obsessed

May 18, 2016, will be a significant day for me and as it approaches, I am continuously caught in the emotional tension of trepidation and excitement; on that day, I will be ordained to the Priesthood. The season of intentional preparation over the past twelve months has been sobering and humbling as the Lord, in his grace, has combed through my heart, exposing the vileness of my sinfulness while lovingly disciplining and drawing my heart back to him. This class, throughout the pre-reading, lectures

the state of the sinful decline of the people was observed and as a result the people were made aware of their sinful condition. Israel on the other hand had no such revival experiences from the onset of their king Jeroboam, “who taught Israel to sin.” Under the leadership of king Jeroboam idolatry was growing and during the dynasty of Omri the practice reached great height and continued to escalate during the reign of Ahab and there was no observation of the sinful decline of the people until the reign

justice to our present day setting. "Writing at a time of prosperity, when a sharp contrast existed between the luxurious life of the nation's leaders and the oppression of the poor was the prophet Amos" (John W. Ritenbaugh) During the reign of Jeroboam II Israel had become a wealthy and prosperous nation. It was a golden age for Israel, a time of political stability and economic growth. This wealth however was not enjoyed by everyone, as the northern kingdom became more urbanised it saw an emergence

Social injustice was rampant during Amos’s time. Not only within Israel/Judah, but also in the foreign kingdoms around them. We are first introduced to the sins of Israel’s neighbors in Amos chapters 1 and 2, which the Lord has found unfavorable which include; crushing Gilead in a cruel manner ( Amos,1:3 New International Version), selling communities into slavery (Amos 1:6, 1:9), murdering their brothers, killing women and their babies (Amos 1:11, 1:13), and burning the bones of others (Amos 2:1)