Archive THE BIBLE - Verse by Verse (1 Kings Chapter 1 to 22)

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1 Kings 14:7 (NLT)
Give your husband, Jeroboam, this message from the LORD, the God of Israel: ' I promoted you from the ranks of the common people and made you ruler over my people Israel.
 
1 Kings 14:8 (NLT)
I ripped the kingdom away from the family of David and gave it to you. But you have not been like my servant David, who obeyed my commands and followed me with all his heart and always did whatever I wanted.
 
1 Kings 14:9 (NLT)
You have done more evil than all those who lived before you. You have made other gods for yourself and have made me furious with your gold calves. And since you have turned your back on me,
 
1 Kings 14:10 (NLT)

10 I will bring disaster on your dynasty and will destroy every one of your male descendants, slave and free alike, anywhere in Israel. I will burn up your royal dynasty as one burns up trash until it is all gone.
 
1 Kings 14:13 (NLT)

13 All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He is the only member of your family who will have a proper burial, for this child is the only good thing that the LORD, the God of Israel, sees in the entire family of Jeroboam.
 
1 Kings 14:15 (NLT)

15 Then the LORD will shake Israel like a reed whipped about in a stream. He will uproot the people of Israel from this good land that he gave their ancestors and will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, for they have angered the LORD with the Asherah poles they have set up for worship.
 
1 Kings 14:18 (NLT) - 18 And all Israel buried him and mourned for him, as the LORD had promised through the prophet Ahijah.
 
1 Kings 14:19 (NLT) - 19 The rest of the events in Jeroboam’s reign, including all his wars and how he ruled, are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Israel.
 
1 Kings 14:20 (NLT) - 20 Jeroboam reigned in Israel twenty-two years. When Jeroboam died, his son Nadab became the next king.
 
1 Kings 14:21 (NLT)
Meanwhile, Rehoboam son of Solomon was King of Judan. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord had chosen from among all the tribes in Israel as the place to Honor his name. Rehoboam's mother was Naamah, an Ammorite woman.
 
1 Kings 14:22 (NLT)
During Rehobom's reign the people of Judah did what was evil in the LORD's sight, provoking his anger with their sin, for it was even worse than that of their ancestors.
 
1 Kings 14:23 (NLT)
For they also built for themselves pagan shrines and set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
 
1 Kings 14:24 (NLT)
There were even male and female shrine prostitutes throughout the land. The people imitated the detestable practices of the pagan nations that the LORD had driven from the land ahead of the Israelites.
 
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