1 Kings 14:16

Judgment For Jeroboam Continues

¹⁵ For the Lord will strike Israel and the people will shake as a reed shakes in water. He will uproot Israel from this good soil that He gave to their ancestors. He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates because they made their Asherah poles, provoking the Lord. ¹⁶ He will give up Israel because of Jeroboam’s sins that he committed and caused Israel to commit.” ¹⁷ Then Jeroboam’s wife got up and left and went to Tirzah. As she was crossing the threshold of the house, the boy died.

People of Israel

Sins of Jeroboam

Israel

Jeroboam

Sin

1 Kings 12:30

This led to sin; the people walked in procession before one of the calves all the way to Dan.

1 Kings 13:34

This was the sin that caused the house of Jeroboam to be wiped out and annihilated from the face of the earth.

1 Kings 15:30

This was because Jeroboam had provoked the Lord God of Israel by the sins he had committed and had caused Israel to commit.

1 Kings 15:34

He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight and followed the example of Jeroboam and the sin he had caused Israel to commit.

1 Kings 16:2

“Because I raised you up from the dust and made you ruler over My people Israel, but you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have caused My people Israel to sin, provoking Me with their sins,

Exodus 32:21

Then Moses asked Aaron, “What did these people do to you that you have led them into such a grave sin?”

Exodus 32:35

And the Lord inflicted a plague on the people for what they did with the calf Aaron had made.

Psalm 81:12

So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts
to follow their own plans.

Isaiah 40:24

They are barely planted, barely sown,
their stem hardly takes root in the ground
when He blows on them and they wither,
and a whirlwind carries them away like stubble.

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy falsely,
and the priests rule by their own authority.
My people love it like this.
But what will you do at the end of it?

Hosea 5:11-12

Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment,
for he is determined to follow what is worthless.

Hosea 9:11-12

Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird:
no birth, no gestation, no conception.

Hosea 9:16-17

Ephraim is struck down;
their roots are withered;
they cannot bear fruit.
Even if they bear children,
I will kill the precious offspring of their wombs.

Micah 6:16

The statutes of Omri
and all the practices of Ahab’s house
have been observed;
you have followed their policies.
Therefore, I will make you a desolate place
and the city’s residents an object of contempt;
you will bear the scorn of My people.”

Matthew 18:7

Woe to the world because of offenses. For offenses must come, but woe to that man by whom the offense comes.

Romans 14:13

Therefore, let us no longer criticize one another. Instead decide never to put a stumbling block or pitfall in your brother’s way.