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2. Lesson 3

3. Jeroboam’s Son 1 Kings 14:1-18  Abijah became sick  Jeroboam sent his wife to Ahijah the prophet  Ahijah was old and blind  Jehovah told him she was coming

4. Jeroboam’s Son 1 Kings 14:1-18  1Ki 14:6 And so it was, when Ahijah heard the sound of her footsteps as she came through the door, he said, "Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why do you pretend to be another person? For I have been sent to you with bad news.

5. Jeroboam’s Son 1 Kings 14:1-18  1Ki 14:7 "Go, tell Jeroboam, 'Thus says the LORD God of Israel: "Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you ruler over My people Israel "and tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to 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 only what was right in My eyes; "but you have done more evil than all who were before you, for you have gone and made for yourself other gods and molded images to provoke Me to anger, and have cast Me behind your back-

6. Jeroboam’s Son 1 Kings 14:1-18  10 "therefore behold! I will bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every male in Israel, bond and free; I will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as one takes away refuse until it is all gone. "The dogs shall eat whoever belongs to Jeroboam and dies in the city, and the birds of the air shall eat whoever dies in the field; for the LORD has spoken!"' "Arise therefore, go to your own house. When your feet enter the city, the child shall die. "And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he is the only one of Jeroboam who shall come to the grave, because in him there is found something good toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.

7. Jeroboam’s Son 1 Kings 14:1-18  14 "Moreover the LORD will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam; this is the day. What? Even now! "For the LORD will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their wooden images, provoking the LORD to anger. "And He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who sinned and who made Israel sin."

8. Rehoboam  41 when he became king  Ruled Judah 17 years  2 Ch 12:4 And he did evil, because he did not prepare his heart to seek the LORD.  His son Abijah took his place on the throne Reigned three years  Eighteenth year of Jeroboam

9. Israel vs Judah 2 Chron 13  Abijah had 400,000 men for battle  Jeroboam had 800,000 men for battle  Abijah recounts history of division 2 Chron 13:4-12  Jeroboam circled for a rear ambush  God struck Israel and they fled  500,000 choice men of Israel died

10. Israel vs Judah 2 Chron 13  2 Ch 13:18 Thus the children of Israel were subdued at that time; and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied on the LORD God of their fathers.  Abijah took cities from Jeroboam Bethel Jeshanah Ephrain

11. Asa – king in Judah  Twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel  Reigned 41 years in Jerusalem  Grandmother's name was Maachah the granddaughter of Absalom  The land was quiet for ten years  Army of 580,000 men

12. Asa – king in Judah  2 Ch 14:2 Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God,  3 for he removed the altars of the foreign gods and the high places, and broke down the sacred pillars and cut down the wooden images.  4 He commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to observe the law and the commandment.

13. Asa – king in Judah  5 He also removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and the kingdom was quiet under him.  6 And he built fortified cities in Judah, for the land had rest; he had no war in those years, because the LORD had given him rest.

14. Jeroboam Dies  Jeroboam reigned 22 years  Evil (no good kings in Israel)  Nadab his son reigned in his place Reigned less than two years Evil Killed by Baasha Left none of the house of Jeroboam alive

15. Kings  Judah Rehoboam  17 years  Evil Abijam  3 years  Evil Asa  41 years  Good  Israel (all evil) Jeroboam  22 years Nadab  2 years Baasha  24 years

16. Confusing?  Abijah Jeroboam’s son who died  Abijah Rehoboam’s son 2 nd king of Judah  Ahijah prophet

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