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and went after the man of God, and found him sitting under a terebinth; and he said to him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.

Verse ConceptsOaksIs It Really?

For it was said to me by the word of Yahweh, 'You shall eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that you came.'"

He said to him, "I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel spoke to me by the word of Yahweh, saying, 'Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.'" He lied to him.

Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitLying, Examples OfProphesying LiesLike Good PeopleIndividual ProphetsLying And Deceitlieingrehabilitation

It happened, as they sat at the table, that the word of Yahweh came to the prophet who brought him back;

Verse ConceptsProphecy, Inspiration Of Ot

and he cried to the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the word of Jehovah, and hast not kept the commandment that Jehovah thy God commanded thee,

but you went back and ate bread and drank water in the place that He said to you, “Do not eat bread and do not drink water”— your corpse will never reach the grave of your fathers.’”

Verse ConceptsTombsInadequate BurialsBurial Of Unnamed PeopleLack Of A Proper Burial

It happened, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back.

Verse ConceptsPreparing To TravelSaddling Donkeys

And men that passed by, saw the carcass cast along in the way and the lion standing thereby, and went and told it in the town where the old prophet dwelt.

Verse ConceptsTelling Of Happenings

And the prophet that brought him back from the way heard of it and said, It is the man of God who was disobedient to the word of Jehovah; therefore Jehovah has delivered him to the lion, which has torn him and slain him, according to the word of Jehovah which he spoke to him.

Verse ConceptsIn Danger From Lionsdisobedience

It happened, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, "When I am dead, then bury me in the tomb in which the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones.

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheBonesAnother's Burial PlaceBurying places

For the word that he cried by the word of Jehovah against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places that are in the cities of Samaria, shall certainly come to pass.

Verse ConceptsShrinesMan's Words Fulfilled

After this thing Jeroboam didn't return from his evil way, but again made priests of the high places from among all the people. Whoever wanted to, he consecrated him, that there might be priests of the high places.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Institution In Ot TimesSuperstitionConsecration

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

Jeroboam said to his wife, "Please get up and disguise yourself, that you won't be recognized as the wife of Jeroboam. Go to Shiloh. Behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, who spoke concerning me that I should be king over this people.

Verse ConceptsdisguisesChanging Yourself

Jeroboam’s wife did that: she went to Shiloh and arrived at Ahijah’s house. Ahijah could not see; his gaze was fixed due to his age.

Verse ConceptsVisionLimitations Of Old People

Yahweh said to Ahijah, "Behold, the wife of Jeroboam comes to inquire of you concerning her son; for he is sick. Thus and thus you shall tell her; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will pretend to be another woman."

Verse ConceptsPretendingTelling Of Movements

It was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, "Come in, you wife of Jeroboam! Why do you pretend to be another? For I am sent to you with heavy news.

Verse ConceptsSoundHearing ThingsPretendingFeet In Action

Go, say to Jeroboam, Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, Because that I have made thee high out of the midst of the people, and appoint thee leader over my people Israel,

Verse ConceptsHumilityPromotionGod Lifting People

and tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it you; and yet you have 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 my eyes,

Verse ConceptsHeart, And Holy SpiritWhole Heartedness

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

Verse ConceptsProvoking GodDifferent Gods

therefore behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every male, him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.

Verse Conceptsdung and manureDefecationUrinatingDeath Of All MalesGod Will Kill His People

Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat, and him that dieth in the field shall the fowl of the heavens eat; for Jehovah hath spoken.

Verse ConceptsdogsAnimals Eating PeopleEating CorpsesBirds Eating

And Jehovah shall raise up for himself a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day; and what? ... even now.

Yahweh will strike Israel as one shakes the reed plant in the water, and he will root Israel up from this good land that he gave to their ancestors. He will scatter them beyond the River because they have made their sacred poles [which are] provoking Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsFalse Godsdispersion, theReedsRootsGod Scattering IsraelGod Beating PeopleGod ShakingBeyond The EuphratesServing Asherah

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

And Jeroboam's wife arose and departed and went to Tirzah, and by that she was come to the threshold of the door, the lad was dead.

Verse ConceptsEntering HousesOther Wives

and they bury him, and mourn for him do all Israel, according to the word of Jehovah, that he spake by the hand of His servant Ahijah the prophet.

Verse ConceptsMourning The Death Of OthersNamed Prophets Of The Lord

As for the rest of the events of Jeroboam’s reign, how he waged war and how he reigned, note that they are written in the Historical Record of Israel’s Kings.

Verse ConceptsHistorical Books

And the days that Jeroboam reigned were twenty-two years; and he slept with his fathers. And Nadab his son reigned in his stead.

Verse ConceptsSleep, And Death20 To 30 YearsKings Of The Northern KingdomList Of Kings Of Israel

And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that Jehovah had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there; and his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonitess.

Verse ConceptsCityelection, privileges ofJerusalem, Significance OfJerusalem, History Of15 To 20 YearsAge When CrownedMothers Of KingsA Place For God's Name

Judah did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.

Verse ConceptsGod, Zeal OfJealousyGod's People Sinning

and there were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed before the children of Israel.

Verse ConceptsAbominationsHomosexualityProstitutionShrinesIdolatry, Wicked Practices OfMale Prostitutes

It happened in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahActual Attacks On Jerusalem

And he took away the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all; and he took away all the shields of gold that Solomon had made.

Verse ConceptsGoldShieldsMoney For The Temple

It was so, that as often as the king went into the house of Yahweh, the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard room.

Verse ConceptsEntering The Temple

Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

Verse ConceptsHistorical Books

He walked in all the sins of his father that he had done before him, and his heart was not fully with Yahweh his God as the heart of David his father.

Verse ConceptsHeart, Of Unregenerate PeopleNot Whole HeartedHeart, Fallen And RedeemedHeirs

Nevertheless, for the sake of David, the LORD his God maintained a lamp for David in Jerusalem by raising up his son after him so that Jerusalem would be established,

Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with DavidFor The Sake Of God's Peoplegrandfathers

because David did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and didn't turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodSin, Universality OfPeople Who Did Right

The rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

Verse ConceptsCivil WarHistorical Books

In the twentieth year that Jeroboam was king of Israel, Asa became king over Judah.

Verse ConceptsGrandmothers

and also Maachah his mother -- he turneth her aside from being mistress, in that she made a horrible thing for a shrine, and Asa cutteth down her horrible thing, and burneth it by the brook Kidron;

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsGrandparentsQueensDestruction Of Satan's WorksBurning Idolatrous ThingsDeposingServing AsherahGrandmothersgrandmas

He brought into the house of Yahweh the things that his father had dedicated, and the things that himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.

Verse ConceptsSilverMoney For The Temple

Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

Verse ConceptsFortressesSealing ThingsPeople Attacking Their Own

Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants; and king Asa sent them to Ben Hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying,

Verse ConceptsMoney For The TempleTaking Mixed Metals

"There is a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. Behold, I have sent to you a present of silver and gold. Go, break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me."

Verse ConceptsNegotiationList Of Kings Of Israel

And Ben-Hadad hearkeneth unto king Asa, and sendeth the heads of the forces that he hath against cities of Israel, and smiteth Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-Beth-Maachah, and all Chinneroth, besides all the land of Naphtali;

Verse ConceptsNations Attacking Israel

It happened, when Baasha heard of it, that he left off building Ramah, and lived in Tirzah.

Verse ConceptsCessation

Then King Asa proclaimed among all of Israel that there was no one free from obligation, so they carried the stones of Ramah and its wood with which Baasha had built, and King Asa rebuilt Geba in Benjamin with them, and the Mizpah.

Verse ConceptsExemptCarrying Other LoadsWood And Stone

Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.

Verse ConceptsFeetOld Age, DisabilitiesdisabilitiesOld Age, Attainment OfInjury To FeetHistorical Booksaccomplishmentsaccomplishment

Nadab, the son of Jeroboam, became king over Israel in the second year that Asa was king of Judah; and he was king of Israel for two years.

Verse ConceptsTwo YearsList Of Kings Of Israel

He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.

Verse ConceptsWalking

It happened that, as soon as he was king, he struck all the house of Jeroboam: he didn't leave to Jeroboam any who breathed, until he had destroyed him; according to the saying of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite;

Verse ConceptsProphecy, Fulfilment Of OtWord Of GodKilling Whole FamiliesNamed Prophets Of The LordWords To Individuals Fulfilled

because of the sins of Jeroboam that he had committed and that he had caused Israel to commit [and] because of his anger [with] which he had provoked Yahweh the God of Israel.

Verse ConceptsProvoking God

Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

Verse ConceptsHistorical Books

He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.

Verse ConceptsImitating Wicked Kings

Because that I have raised thee up out of the dust, and appoint thee leader over My people Israel, and thou walkest in the way of Jeroboam, and causest My people Israel to sin -- to provoke Me to anger with their sins;

Verse ConceptsImitating Wicked KingsGod Lifting People

behold, I am going to sweep away Baasha and his household (family), and I will make your house (royal line) like that of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat, and him that dieth of his in the field shall the fowl of the heavens eat.

Verse ConceptsdogsBirds, Types Of BirdsAnimals Eating PeopleEating CorpsesBirds Eating

Now the rest of Baasha's accomplishments, including everything that he undertook, as well as his strengths, are recorded in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel, are they not?

Verse ConceptsHistorical Booksaccomplishments

Moreover by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of Yahweh against Baasha, and against his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he struck him.

Verse ConceptsMessengerProphets, Role OfImitating Wicked KingsNamed Prophets Of The Lord

In the twenty-sixth year that Asa was king of Judah, Elah, the son of Baasha, became king of Israel in Tirzah, and he was king for two years.

Verse ConceptsTwo YearsList Of Kings Of Israel

And Zimri went in and made an attack on him and put him to death, in the twenty-seventh year that Asa was king of Judah, and made himself king in his place.

Verse ConceptsKilling KingsList Of Kings Of Israel

It happened, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he struck all the house of Baasha: he didn't leave him a single one who urinates on a wall, neither of his relatives, nor of his friends.

Verse ConceptsThroneUrinatingDeath Of All MalesKilling Whole FamiliesFamily And Friends

In doing so, Zimri destroyed the entire household of Baasha, in keeping with the message from the LORD that he had spoken against Baasha through Jehu the prophet

Verse ConceptsWord Of GodKilling Whole FamiliesNamed Prophets Of The LordWords To Individuals Fulfilled

for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned and that they made Israel to sin, in provoking Jehovah, the God of Israel to anger with their vanities.

Verse ConceptsProvoking GodVanityGod Opposes Idolatry

Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

Verse ConceptsHistorical Booksaccomplishments

Zimri reigned for seven days at Tirzah during the twenty-seventh year of the reign of King Asa of Judah. At that time, the army was encamped in a siege against Gibbethon of Philistia.

Verse ConceptsSeven DaysList Of Kings Of IsraelThe Nations Attacked

The people who were encamped heard say, Zimri has conspired, and has also struck the king: therefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp.

Verse ConceptsConspiraciesMaking KingsList Of Kings Of Israel

It happened, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the castle of the king's house, and burnt the king's house over him with fire, and died,

Verse ConceptsCitadelsHope, Results Of Its AbsencePalacesSuicideBurning People

for his sins which he sinned in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin.

Verse ConceptsImitating Wicked Kings

Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

Verse ConceptsConspiraciesHistorical Books

At that time, the people of Israel were divided into two parts: half of the people went after Tibni the son of Ginath to make him king, and the other half went after Omri.

Verse ConceptsFractions, One HalfTwo GroupsMaking KingsHalf Of GroupsList Of Kings Of Israel

But the people that followed Omri overcame the people that followed Tibni the son of Ginath; and Tibni died, and Omri reigned.

And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver; and built on the hill, and called the name of the city that he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria.

Verse ConceptsBuildingCoinage

And Omri wrought evil in the sight of Jehovah, and did worse than all that were before him.

Verse Conceptsorganization

He went in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat and in his sins that he caused Israel to sin by provoking Yahweh the God of Israel with their idols.

Verse ConceptsImitating Wicked KingsGod Opposes Idolatry

Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he showed, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

Verse ConceptsHistorical Booksaccomplishments

In the thirty-eighth year that Asa was king of Judah, Ahab, the son of Omri, became king over Israel; and Ahab was king in Samaria for twenty-two years.

Verse Concepts20 To 30 Years

And Ahab the son of Omri wrought evil in the sight of Jehovah more than all that were before him.

Verse ConceptsBehaviourjezebel

And it came to pass, as if it was a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians; and he went and served Baal and worshipped him.

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningPolygamyServanthood, And Worship Of GodImitating Wicked KingsUnimportant Thingsjezebel

He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he had built in Samaria.

Verse ConceptsTemples, HeathenAltars, PaganBuilding Altarsjezebel

And Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did more to provoke Jehovah the God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsServing Asherahjezebel

It was during Ahab's reign that Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho. He laid its foundations just as his firstborn son Abiram was dying, and he erected its gates while his youngest son Segub was dying, thus fulfilling the message that the LORD delivered through Nun's son Joshua.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsFirstbornFathers, Sin Of TheGatesProphecy, Fulfilment Of OtSacrifice, In OtDeath Of The FirstbornThe Youngest ChildFoundations Of NationsCity GatesRebuilding Named CitiesWords To Individuals Fulfilled

"Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.

Verse ConceptsDivine DirectionHiding From PeopleBeyond JordanBrooks

And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the torrent; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.

Verse ConceptsRavensBirds, Types Of BirdsDivine DirectionDrinking WaterBrooks

So he went and did according to the word of Yahweh; for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.

Verse ConceptsMiracles, Responses ToFrugalityBeyond JordanBrooks

And it came to pass after a while that the torrent dried up, for there had been no rain in the land.

Verse Conceptsdrynessdrought, physicalRivers And StreamsWaters Drying UpBrooks

“Get up, go to Zarephath that belongs to Sidon and stay there. Look, I have commanded a woman who is a widow to provide for you there.”

Verse Conceptsdrought, physicalMission, Of IsraelWork, Divine And HumanDivine DirectionWidows

And he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the entrance of the city, behold, a widow woman was there gathering sticks. And he called to her and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

Verse ConceptsWaterDrinking WaterFirewoodgathering

And she said, As Jehovah thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse; and behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.

Verse ConceptsFlourLonelinessOlive OilSmall Things God UsesBarrelsResigned To DeathFirewoodDyingcooking

And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as you have said: but make me from it a little loaf first, and bring it unto me, and after that make some for you and for your son.

Verse ConceptsSmallnessSacrificial GivingBreadcooking

For thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel: The meal in the barrel shall not waste, neither shall the oil in the cruse fail, until the day that Jehovah sendeth rain upon the face of the earth!

Verse ConceptsElijah, Prophecies OfHelpfulnessProphecy, Fulfilment Of OtBarrelsPlenty For The PoorWeedpot

the pitcher of meal was not consumed, and the dish of oil did not lack, according to the word of Jehovah that He spake by the hand of Elijah.

Verse ConceptsFlourDivine SuppliesBarrelsPlenty For The Poorcookingpot

And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.

Verse ConceptsBreath Of LifeHaving No BreathSick Individualsmistress

She said to Elijah, "{What do you have against me}, O man of God, [that] you have come to me to make known my guilt and to cause my son to die?"

Verse ConceptsLove, And The WorldGod Remembering SinWhat Have We In Common?Attempting To Kill Specific PeopleMan Of Godremembrance

and called unto the LORD and said, "O LORD my God, hast thou been so evil unto the widow with whom I sojourn, that thou hast slain her son?"

Verse ConceptsCrying To GodSecret PrayerGod KillingGod Killing IndividualsTragedy