Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the cause was of God, that the LORD might perform his word, which he spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

The cause

That the lord

Bible References

The cause

Acts 2:23
Him being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands, have crucified and slain:
Acts 4:28
To do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel before determined to be done.

That the lord

John 12:37
But tho' he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him;
John 19:24
They said therefore one to another, Let us not rent it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and cast lots for my vesture. These things therefore the soldiers did.