1 Kings 14:16

And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, wherewith he has sinned, and made Israel to sin.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.

In Context

15And Jehovah will smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their Asherahs, provoking Jehovah to anger.

17And Jeroboam's wife arose and departed, and came to Tirzah; when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died.

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Cross References

Exodus 32:35And Jehovah smote the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron had made.

1 Kings 12:30And this thing became a sin; and the people went [to worship] before the one, as far as Dan.

1 Kings 15:26And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin with which he made Israel sin.

1 Kings 15:34And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin where with he made Israel to sin.

1 Kings 16:13for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and wherewith they made Israel to sin, provoking Jehovah the God of Israel to anger with their vanities.

1 Kings 16:27And the rest of the acts of Omri, what he did, and his might which he shewed, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 14:8-21

The Ruin of Jeroboam's House Foretold; Abijah's Character and Death. ( b. c. 960.) 7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel, 8 And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes; 9 But hast done evil above all that were before thee:… Read the whole commentary →

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