Jeroboam

• Reign of Jeroboam Ic. 975 BC

Jeroboam

Father

Nebat

Mother

Zeruah

Children

Abijah· Nadab

• יָֽרָבְעָם·Jeroboam

Includes 20 verses that refer to Jeroboam without naming them, as “he”, “she”, or the subject of a verb.

1. 1 Kings 11:26
   Now Jeroboam son of Nebat was an Ephraimite from Zeredah whose mother was a widow named Zeruah. Jeroboam was a servant of Solomon, but he rebelled against the king,
2. 1 Kings 11:27Referred to, not named
   …and this is the account of his rebellion against the king. Solomon had built the supporting terraces and repaired the gap in the wall of the city of his father David.
3. 1 Kings 11:28
   Now Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor. So when Solomon noticed that the young man was industrious, he put him in charge of the whole labor force of the house of Joseph.
4. 1 Kings 11:29
   During that time, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met Jeroboam on the road as he was going out of Jerusalem. Now Ahijah had wrapped himself in a new cloak, and the two of them were alone in the open field.
5. 1 Kings 11:31
   …and said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces for yourself, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and I will give you ten tribes.
6. 1 Kings 11:35Referred to, not named
   But I will take ten tribes of the kingdom from the hand of his son and give them to you.
7. 1 Kings 11:37Referred to, not named
   But as for you, I will take you, and you shall reign over all that your heart desires, and you will be king over Israel.
8. 1 Kings 11:38Referred to, not named
   If you listen to all that I command you, walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight in order to keep My statutes and commandments as My servant David did, then I will be with you. I will build you a lasting dynasty just as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.
9. 1 Kings 11:40
   Solomon therefore sought to kill Jeroboam. But Jeroboam arose and fled to Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, where he remained until the death of Solomon.
10. 1 Kings 12:2
    When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about this, he was still in Egypt where he had fled from King Solomon and had been living ever since.
11. 1 Kings 12:3
    So they sent for Jeroboam, and he and the whole assembly of Israel came to Rehoboam and said,
12. 1 Kings 12:4Referred to, not named
    “Your father put a heavy yoke on us. But now you must lighten the burden of your father’s service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”
13. 1 Kings 12:5Referred to, not named
    Rehoboam answered, “Go away for three days and then return to me.” So the people departed.
14. 1 Kings 12:12
    After three days, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, since the king had said, “Come back to me on the third day.”
15. 1 Kings 12:15
    So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from the LORD, to fulfill the word He had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.
16. 1 Kings 12:20
    When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. Only the tribe of Judah followed the house of David.
17. 1 Kings 12:25
    Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. And from there he went out and built Penuel.
18. 1 Kings 12:26
    Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom might revert to the house of David.
19. 1 Kings 12:27Referred to, not named
    If these people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, their hearts will return to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah; then they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”
20. 1 Kings 12:32
    And Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had set up, and he installed priests in Bethel for the high places he had set up.
21. 1 Kings 12:33Referred to, not named
    On the fifteenth day of the eighth month, a month of his own choosing, Jeroboam offered sacrifices on the altar he had set up in Bethel. So he ordained a feast for the Israelites, offered sacrifices on the altar, and burned incense.
22. 1 Kings 13:1
    Suddenly, as Jeroboam was standing beside the altar to burn incense, there came a man of God from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD.
23. 1 Kings 13:4
    Now when King Jeroboam, who was at the altar in Bethel, heard the word that the man of God had cried out against it, he stretched out his hand and said, “Seize him!” But the hand he stretched out toward him withered, so that he could not pull it back.
24. 1 Kings 13:33
    Even after these events, Jeroboam did not repent of his evil ways, but again he appointed priests for the high places from every class of people. He ordained anyone who desired to be a priest of the high places.
25. 1 Kings 13:34
    And this was the sin of the house of Jeroboam that led to its extermination and destruction from the face of the earth.
26. 1 Kings 14:1
    At that time Abijah son of Jeroboam became ill,
27. 1 Kings 14:2
    …and Jeroboam said to his wife, “Now get up, disguise yourself so they will not recognize you as my wife, and go to Shiloh. For Ahijah the prophet is there; it was he who spoke about my kingship over this people.
28. 1 Kings 14:4
    Jeroboam’s wife did as instructed; she arose and went to Shiloh and arrived at Ahijah’s house. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age.
29. 1 Kings 14:5
    But the LORD had said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to ask you about her son, for he is ill. You are to say such and such to her, because when she arrives, she will be disguised.”
30. 1 Kings 14:6
    So when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet entering the door, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam! Why are you disguised? For I have been sent to you with bad news.
31. 1 Kings 14:7
    Go, tell Jeroboam that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I raised you up from among the people and appointed you ruler over My people Israel.
32. 1 Kings 14:8Referred to, not named
    I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you. But you have not been like My servant David, who kept My commandments and followed Me with all his heart, doing only what was right in My eyes.
33. 1 Kings 14:9Referred to, not named
    You have done more evil than all who came before you. You have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me, and you have flung Me behind your back.
34. 1 Kings 14:10
    Because of all this, behold, I am bringing disaster on the house of Jeroboam: I will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both slave and free, in Israel; I will burn up the house of Jeroboam as one burns up dung until it is gone!
35. 1 Kings 14:11
    Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and anyone who dies in the field will be eaten by the birds of the air.’ For the LORD has spoken.
36. 1 Kings 14:13
    All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. For this is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will receive a proper burial, because only in him has the LORD, the God of Israel, found any good in the house of Jeroboam.
37. 1 Kings 14:14
    Moreover, the LORD will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is the day—yes, even today!
38. 1 Kings 14:16
    So He will give Israel over on account of the sins Jeroboam has committed and has caused Israel to commit.”
39. 1 Kings 14:17
    Then Jeroboam’s wife got up and departed for Tirzah, and as soon as she stepped over the threshold of the house, the boy died.
40. 1 Kings 14:19
    As for the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he waged war and how he reigned, they are indeed written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
41. 1 Kings 14:20
    And the length of Jeroboam’s reign was twenty-two years, and he rested with his fathers, and his son Nadab reigned in his place.
42. 1 Kings 14:30
    There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam throughout their days.
43. 1 Kings 15:1
    In the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijam became king of Judah,
44. 1 Kings 15:6
    And there was war between the houses of Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of Abijam’s life.
45. 1 Kings 15:7
    As for the rest of the acts of Abijam, along with all his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
46. 1 Kings 15:9
    In the twentieth year of Jeroboam’s reign over Israel, Asa became king of Judah,
47. 1 Kings 15:25
    In the second year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Nadab son of Jeroboam became king of Israel, and he reigned two years.
48. 1 Kings 15:29
    As soon as Baasha became king, he struck down the entire household of Jeroboam. He did not leave to Jeroboam anyone who breathed, but destroyed them all according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servant Ahijah the Shilonite,
49. 1 Kings 15:30
    …because of the sins Jeroboam had committed and had caused Israel to commit, and because he had provoked the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger.
50. 1 Kings 15:34
    And Baasha did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin, which he had caused Israel to commit.
51. 1 Kings 16:2
    “Even though I lifted you out of the dust and made you ruler over My people Israel, you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have caused My people Israel to sin and to provoke Me to anger by their sins.
52. 1 Kings 16:3
    So now I will consume Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like that of Jeroboam son of Nebat:
53. 1 Kings 16:7
    Moreover, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha and his house, because of all the evil he had done in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger with the work of his hands and becoming like the house of Jeroboam, and also because Baasha had struck down the house of Jeroboam.
54. 1 Kings 16:19
    …because of the sins he had committed, doing evil in the sight of the LORD and following the example of Jeroboam and the sin he had committed and had caused Israel to commit.
55. 1 Kings 16:26
    For he walked in all the ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat and in his sins, which he caused Israel to commit, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger with their worthless idols.
56. 1 Kings 16:31
    And as if it were not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he even married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and he then proceeded to serve and worship Baal.
57. 1 Kings 21:22
    I will make your house like that of Jeroboam son of Nebat and like that of Baasha son of Ahijah, because you have provoked My anger and caused Israel to sin.’
58. 1 Kings 22:52
    And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the ways of his father and mother and of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin.
59. 2 Kings 3:3
    Nevertheless, he clung to the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit; he did not turn away from them.
60. 2 Kings 9:9
    I will make the house of Ahab like the houses of Jeroboam son of Nebat and Baasha son of Ahijah.
61. 2 Kings 10:29
    …but he did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit—the worship of the golden calves at Bethel and Dan.
62. 2 Kings 10:31
    Yet Jehu was not careful to follow the instruction of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit.
63. 2 Kings 13:2
    And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and followed the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit; he did not turn away from them.
64. 2 Kings 13:6
    Nevertheless, they did not turn away from the sins that the house of Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit, but they continued to walk in them. The Asherah pole even remained standing in Samaria.
65. 2 Kings 13:11
    And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and did not turn away from all the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit, but he walked in them.
66. 2 Kings 14:24
    And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and did not turn away from all the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.
67. 2 Kings 15:9
    And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done. He did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.
68. 2 Kings 15:18
    And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and throughout his reign he did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.
69. 2 Kings 15:24
    And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.
70. 2 Kings 15:28
    And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.
71. 2 Kings 17:21
    When the LORD had torn Israel away from the house of David, they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king, and Jeroboam led Israel away from following the LORD and caused them to commit a great sin.
72. 2 Kings 17:22
    The Israelites persisted in all the sins that Jeroboam had committed and did not turn away from them.
73. 2 Kings 23:15
    He even pulled down the altar at Bethel, the high place set up by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin. Then he burned the high place, ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole.
74. 2 Chronicles 9:29
    As for the rest of the acts of Solomon, from beginning to end, are they not written in the Records of Nathan the Prophet, in the Prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the Visions of Iddo the Seer concerning Jeroboam son of Nebat?
75. 2 Chronicles 10:2
    When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about this, he returned from Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon.
76. 2 Chronicles 10:3
    So they sent for Jeroboam, and he and all Israel came to Rehoboam and said,
77. 2 Chronicles 10:4Referred to, not named
    “Your father put a heavy yoke on us. But now you must lighten the burden of your father’s service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”
78. 2 Chronicles 10:5Referred to, not named
    Rehoboam answered, “Come back to me in three days.” So the people departed.
79. 2 Chronicles 10:12
    After three days, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, since the king had said, “Come back to me on the third day.”
80. 2 Chronicles 10:13Referred to, not named
    And the king answered them harshly. King Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders
81. 2 Chronicles 10:14Referred to, not named
    …and spoke to them as the young men had advised, saying, “Whereas my father made your yoke heavy, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.”
82. 2 Chronicles 10:15
    So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from God, in order that the LORD might fulfill the word that He had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.
83. 2 Chronicles 11:4
    …that this is what the LORD says: ‘You are not to go up and fight against your brothers. Each of you must return home, for this is My doing.’” So they listened to the words of the LORD and turned back from going against Jeroboam.
84. 2 Chronicles 11:14
    For the Levites left their pasturelands and their possessions and went to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them as priests of the LORD.
85. 2 Chronicles 11:15Referred to, not named
    And Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat demons and calf idols he had made.
86. 2 Chronicles 12:15
    Now the acts of Rehoboam, from first to last, are they not written in the records of Shemaiah the Prophet and of Iddo the Seer concerning the genealogies? There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam throughout their days.
87. 2 Chronicles 13:1
    In the eighteenth year of Jeroboam’s reign, Abijah became king of Judah,
88. 2 Chronicles 13:2
    …and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother’s name was Micaiah daughter of Uriel; she was from Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
89. 2 Chronicles 13:3
    Abijah went into battle with an army of 400,000 chosen men, while Jeroboam drew up in formation against him with 800,000 chosen and mighty men of valor.
90. 2 Chronicles 13:4
    Then Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim in the hill country of Ephraim and said, “Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel!
91. 2 Chronicles 13:5Referred to, not named
    Do you not know that the LORD, the God of Israel, has given the kingship of Israel to David and his descendants forever by a covenant of salt?
92. 2 Chronicles 13:6
    Yet Jeroboam son of Nebat, a servant of Solomon son of David, rose up and rebelled against his master.
93. 2 Chronicles 13:7Referred to, not named
    Then worthless and wicked men gathered around him to resist Rehoboam son of Solomon when he was young, inexperienced, and unable to resist them.
94. 2 Chronicles 13:8
    And now you think you can resist the kingdom of the LORD, which is in the hands of David’s descendants. You are indeed a vast army, and you have with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made for you as gods.
95. 2 Chronicles 13:9Referred to, not named
    But did you not drive out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites? And did you not make priests for yourselves as do the peoples of other lands? Now whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams can become a priest of things that are not gods.
96. 2 Chronicles 13:11Referred to, not named
    Every morning and every evening they present burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the LORD. They set out the rows of showbread on the ceremonially clean table, and every evening they light the lamps of the gold lampstand. We are carrying out the requirements of the LORD our God, while you have forsaken Him.
97. 2 Chronicles 13:12Referred to, not named
    Now behold, God Himself is with us as our head, and His priests with their trumpets sound the battle call against you. O children of Israel, do not fight against the LORD, the God of your fathers, for you will not succeed.”
98. 2 Chronicles 13:13
    Now Jeroboam had sent troops around to ambush from the rear, so that while he was in front of Judah, the ambush was behind them.
99. 2 Chronicles 13:15
    …and the men of Judah raised the battle cry. And when they raised the cry, God routed Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
100. 2 Chronicles 13:19
     Abijah pursued Jeroboam and captured some cities from him: Bethel, Jeshanah, and Ephron, along with their villages.
101. 2 Chronicles 13:20
     Jeroboam did not again recover his power during the days of Abijah, and the LORD struck him down and he died.