1 Kings 14:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:

Hast done

1 Kings 16:31

Thou hast gone

Jeremiah 10:14

To provoke

Cast me

Nehemiah 9:26

Psalm 50:17

Ezekiel 23:35

Bible References

Hast done

He will hand Israel over to their enemies because of the sins which Jeroboam committed and which he made Israel commit."

After the king had consulted with his advisers, he made two golden calves. Then he said to the people, "It is too much trouble for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look, Israel, here are your gods who brought you up from the land of Egypt."

After this happened, Jeroboam still did not change his evil ways; he continued to appoint common people as priests at the high places. Anyone who wanted the job he consecrated as a priest.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord; he followed in Jeroboam's footsteps and encouraged Israel to sin.

As if following in the sinful footsteps of Jeroboam son of Nebat were not bad enough, he married Jezebel the daughter of King Ethbaal of the Sidonians. Then he worshiped and bowed to Baal.

Thou hast gone

They made him jealous with other gods, they enraged him with abhorrent idols.

God chose new leaders, then fighters appeared in the city gates; but, I swear, not a shield or spear could be found, among forty military units in Israel.

Jeroboam appointed his own priests to serve at the worship centers and to lead in the worship of the goat idols and calf idols he had made.

They made an image of a calf at Horeb, and worshiped a metal idol.

Their idols are made of silver and gold -- they are man-made.

All who form idols are nothing; the things in which they delight are worthless. Their witnesses cannot see; they recognize nothing, so they are put to shame.

All these idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols.

To provoke

Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done.

At Horeb you provoked him and he was angry enough with you to destroy you.

He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole just like King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky and worshiped them.

Yet the Lord's great anger against Judah did not subside; he was still infuriated by all the things Manasseh had done.

He passed his sons through the fire in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and practiced divination, omen reading, and sorcery. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits and appointed magicians to supervise it. He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the Lord and angered him.

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and insulted him in the desert!

They made the Lord angry by their actions, and a plague broke out among them.

You steal. You murder. You commit adultery. You lie when you swear on oath. You sacrifice to the god Baal. You pay allegiance to other gods whom you have not previously known.

He stretched out the form of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue which provokes to jealousy was located.

Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we really stronger than he is?

Cast me

"Nonetheless they grew disobedient and rebelled against you; they disregarded your law. They killed your prophets who had solemnly admonished them in order to cause them to return to you. They committed atrocious blasphemies.

For you hate instruction and reject my words.

"Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Because you have forgotten me and completely disregarded me, you must bear now the punishment for your obscene conduct and prostitution."