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The regional power in the Near East until the ascent of the Assyrian empire was Egypt. As such, Egypt has played and will play an outsized role in the Tanach. Abraham went to Egypt and hid Sarah from Pharoah, but he still took her, and then God punished him. Jacob also has to contend with Egypt. Joseph is sold to an Egyptian taskmaster and becomes viceroy, the brothers go to Egypt for food, and then Jacob and his whole family stay there. Jacob even has an audience with Pharaoh. The Israelites are slaves in Egypt and then freed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Then Egypt disappears from the story. Throughout the books of Joshua, Judges and Samuel, the only mention of Egypt is in reference to the Exodus. Egypt is a non-factor because the Israelites are a non-factor. They are a young nation focusing on conquering their own land. Even under their nascent king, Saul, the nation is young and dealing with local enemies like Amalek and the Philistines. When David ascends the throne, the nation is growing stronger and extends conflicts to outside its immediate border, but only its immediate border. The alliance with Tyre is the furthest that David\u2019s country will extend. But that is the beginning of an international focus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Solomon marrying the daughter of Pharaoh is the first sign in Israel\u2019s arrival on the world stage. The fact that the ruler of the most powerful nation in the Near East would consider marrying off his daughter to Solomon was a big deal. While it ultimately led to Solomon\u2019s downfall, the action was significant. Getting close to the world power means that you now are in their sights. In chapter 14, the king of Egypt swoops in and captures the golden shields that used to be housed in the Temple. As a metaphor for the weakened state of the kingdom since Solomon crafted them, Rehoboam can only replace them with copper ones.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The problem with all of the Pharaohs that came before is that none of them have names. This makes it difficult to tell which Pharaoh is Pharaoh at any given time in the Tanach. This current king of Egypt, though, is not a Pharaoh: he is simply called Shishak the King of Egypt. Most scholars feel confident Shishak was Shoshenq I. There was a stele discovered in Megiddo that lists Shoshenq\u2019s conquests in Canaan, though the names of Jeroboam and Rehoboam and Jerusalem are not included.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why is this king of Egypt not called Pharoah? Shoshenq was the founder of the 22<\/span>nd<\/span> dynasty in Egypt. This could also be why he is not named as Pharoah as he may have been considered an outside usurper as the founder of a new dynasty.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Jeroboam initially acted as the Jewish people\u2019s advocate against the excesses of Solomon\u2019s son, Rehoboam. However, once Jeroboam consolidated his control over the ten and a half tribes that had seceded from Rehoboam\u2019s kingdom and formed a separate polity known as \u201cIsrael,\u201d it became clear that Jeroboam viewed his position as a means to aggrandize his power and possessions, rather than serve his constituents. It stood to reason that God would refuse to support such iniquity.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Although Jeroboam\u2019s wife was instructed to attempt to secretly determine the fate of her critically ill new-born, by consulting with the blind prophet, Ahijah, he divined her subterfuge, and pronounced that the child would die and that he would be the lone descendant of the king that would merit a \u201cproper burial.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Acting little better than his counterpart, Rehoboam and the people of Judah also committed iniquities, and that kingdom too earned God\u2019s opprobrium.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

An interesting aside, necessitated by the looting of the Egyptian king, Shishak, is described towards the end of the chapter (verses 26-28):<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He (<\/span>Shishak<\/span><\/i>) even carried off all the golden shields that Solomon had made. King Rehoboam had bronze shields made instead, and he entrusted them to the officers of the guard<\/span> who guarded the entrance to the royal palace. Whenever the king went into the House of the LORD, the guards would carry them, and then bring them back to the armory of the guards.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ralbag, in his commentary, states that Rehoboam wanted to make sure that these shields would not be taken again in a raid. However, Abrabanel, who served in King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella\u2019s cabinet, and was quite familiar with inappropriate royal machinations, writes:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rehoboam did this because he feared that his constituents would rebel against him since he was afraid of them. And for this reason, he would only come to the Temple when he had his guard surrounding him, protecting his life (<\/span>with their bronze shields<\/span><\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rehoboam originally (12:13-4) lost most of his kingdom due to his insistence on brutalizing the people:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The king answered the people harshly, ignoring the advice that the elders had given him. He spoke to them in accordance with the advice of the young men, and said, \u201cMy father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father flogged you with whips, but I will flog you with scorpions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Although the next verse asserts that Rehoboam could not have done otherwise due to his being manipulated by God in order to fulfill a previous prophecy, according to Abrabanel, \u201conce a bully, always a bully,\u201d and that bullies are in fact deeply insecure and easily intimidated.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In the previous chapter, we heard the oracle pronounced by \u201cthe man of God\u201d condemning Jeroboam and his descendants to a fiery end because he promoted the high-places (<\/span>bamot<\/span><\/i>). Here, we begin to see its fulfillment. When Jeroboam\u2019s son took ill, he sent his wife to consult Ahijah, the very same prophet who had earlier chosen him to rule over the ten tribes. Although Jeroboam instructed her to travel incognito, Ahijah was forewarned by God of her approach and he greeted her with \u201cCome in, wife of Jeroboam. Why are you disguised? I have a harsh message for you\u201d (6). Implicitly, Jeroboam feared that Ahijah would respond to him severely regardless of the actual inquiry, and that fear was confirmed. Even without hearing her question about the fate of the child, he warned her that his message would be \u201charsh.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ahijah then proceeded to enumerate God\u2019s charges against Jeroboam, who had been promoted to king in order to enhance the service of God. Instead:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

You have acted worse than all those who preceded you; you have gone and made for yourself other gods and molten images to vex Me; and Me you have cast behind your back.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Who were \u201call those\u201d who preceded Jeroboam? After all, the total number of kings who had ruled over Israel by this point in time was three: Saul, David, and Solomon. Saul failed God in his inability to confront Amalek as instructed (1 Samuel 15), David sinned grievously in the matter of Bathsheba and Uriah (2 Samuel 11-12), and of Solomon we read:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In his old age, his wives turned away Solomon\u2019s heart after other gods, and he was not as wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God as his father David had been. Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Phoenicians, and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. Solomon did what was displeasing to the LORD and did not remain loyal to the LORD like his father David. (1 Kings 11:4-6)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

How could Jeroboam have \u201cacted worse\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I suspect that the answer resides in the phrase with which we entitled these remarks: \u201cAnd Me you have cast behind your back\u201d (v. 9). The faith in God of Saul, David, and even Solomon never wavered, however susceptible to error they may have been. Jeroboam was of another type; he set God aside, as it were, and pretended He was not there. For the former kings, repentance and redemption were lively possibilities; for Jeroboam, they were dead letters.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The Bible contains many stories in which people dress in costume in an attempt to conceal their identity. In these incidents, the objective is not merely misrepresentation but to perpetrate an act of deception (e.g. I Kings 20:35-41, II Samuel 15). In this regard, the biblical story \u2014 that of Adam and Eve hiding in the Garden of Eden \u2014 provides a poignant comparison. In that episode, the act of concealment is an attempt to outwit the all-knowing God rather than to deceive man. In his essay\u00a0 \u201cMan Sees with the Eyes, God Sees to the Heart: Camouflage in the Flight of God,\u201d Prof. Yair Zakovitch comments:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The greatest paradox transpires when mere mortals, whose vision is a human, flesh-and-blood perspective, attempt to deceive Heaven.... He who hopes to evade God under the disguise of a mask is animated by either naivety or desperation.... The paradox is readily apparent: At the very moment of hiding from God, the road leads to Him. Even the blindness of the prophet will not help the scheming king.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Here, too, Jeroboam seeks to hide from the prophet and circumvent God; however, it is God who guides the prophet. Thus, no matter how Jeroboam's wife conceals her identity, and no matter how blind the prophet may be, God will send His inexorable word to His prophet and deliver His pronouncement. In a cruel reversal, the messenger sent by the king to bring about the child's recovery becomes an agent of God bearing a message of death: \"<\/span>As for you, arise, go to your house; when you enter the city, the child will die\" (14:12).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jeroboam's wife is forced to endure an excruciating journey home, cognizant that her return will bring about her son's demise. In a sinister echo of the <\/span>mofet<\/span><\/em>, the prophetic sign of the previous chapter (13:3), the very death of her child verifies Ahijah's prophecy. Indeed, had Jeroboam heeded the first sign, the second would not have been necessary. The prophet instructs Jeroboam's wife, \"Arise, go to your house\" (14:12), and the child dies \"when she came to the threshold of her house\" (14:17). There is a deliberate interplay here between Jeroboam's physical house or home and his royal \"house\" (14:10, 13). The death of the child at the moment of entry into the house signifies the \"death\" of Jeroboam's royal dynasty.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Alex Israel, 1 Kings: Torn in Two<\/em>, Maggid Books, 2013, Jeroboam Condemned\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":61437,"alt":"","title":"alex israel - kings 1","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/alex-israel-kings-1.jpg","width":1020,"height":1304,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/alex-israel-kings-1-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/alex-israel-kings-1-235x300.jpg","medium-width":235,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/alex-israel-kings-1-768x982.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":982,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/alex-israel-kings-1-801x1024.jpg","large-width":801,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/alex-israel-kings-1.jpg","1536x1536-width":1020,"1536x1536-height":1304,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/alex-israel-kings-1.jpg","2048x2048-width":1020,"2048x2048-height":1304,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/alex-israel-kings-1-939x1200.jpg","post_full_size-width":939,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/alex-israel-kings-1-329x420.jpg","home_baner-width":329,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Excerpts from: 1 Kings - Torn in Two","tile_main_caption":"You Can\u2019t Pull One Over On God","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"The attempt leads to a portent of the \"death\" of Jeroboam's royal dynasty","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":61437,"alt":"","title":"alex israel - kings 1","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/alex-israel-kings-1.jpg","width":1020,"height":1304,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/alex-israel-kings-1-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/alex-israel-kings-1-235x300.jpg","medium-width":235,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/alex-israel-kings-1-768x982.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":982,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/alex-israel-kings-1-801x1024.jpg","large-width":801,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/alex-israel-kings-1.jpg","1536x1536-width":1020,"1536x1536-height":1304,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/alex-israel-kings-1.jpg","2048x2048-width":1020,"2048x2048-height":1304,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/alex-israel-kings-1-939x1200.jpg","post_full_size-width":939,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/alex-israel-kings-1-329x420.jpg","home_baner-width":329,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"I Kings","chapter":"14","chapter_main_number":"301","date":"20261025","wall_id":"301"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"501","name":"Deception","old_id":"901"},{"term_id":"506","name":"Prophecy","old_id":"906"},{"term_id":"923","name":"Jeroboam","old_id":"1323"}]},{"order":7,"id":"62525","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"The Chronicles Of The Kings Of Judah And Israel ","post_title":"The Chronicles Of The Kings Of Judah And Israel","slug":"the-chronicles-of-the-kings-of-judah-and-israel","old_id":"62525","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":33877,"post_title":"Marc Bregman","slug":"marc-bregman","old_id":"33877","first_name":"Marc","last_name":"Bregman","description":"Marc Bregman received his Ph.D. from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1991. 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Our chapter includes summaries of the reigns of both Jeroboam and Rehoboam, each of which is immediately preceded by similar bibliographical comments: \u201cThe other events of Jeroboam\u2019s reign, how he fought and how he ruled, are recorded in the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel\u201d (verse 19) and \u201cThe other events of Rehoboam\u2019s reign, and all his actions, are recorded in the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah\u201d (verse 30).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Such \u201cChronicles\u201d (divrey ha-yamim<\/em>) are cited frequently in the Hebrew Bible -- the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel are mentioned 18 times and the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah are mentioned 15 times. While these literary records are not identical with the Biblical Books of Chronicles, they are referred to there, in I Chronicles 9:1, II Chronicles 20:34, and elsewhere. Significantly, a more extensive echo of the brief bibliographic comment at the end of our Chapter (verse 30), is found in II Chronicles 12:15: \u201cThe deeds of Rehoboam, early and late, are recorded in the Chronicles of the prophet Shemaiah and Iddo, the seer\u201d. Moreover, \u201cA Midrash of the Prophet Iddo\u201d is said to have recorded additional historical information (see II Chronicles 13:22). Contemporary Biblical scholars have suggested that these lost \u201cChronicles\u201d, which seem to have been recorded in some literary form, may have been similar to the royal annals of other ancient Near Eastern nations, preserved in inscriptions, such as the stele set up by King Mesha of Moab around 840 BCE.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Portuguese Jewish statesman, financer, philosopher and Bible commentator, Don Isaac Abarbanel (died 1508), raises the general question why Scripture seems not to have included all that was apparently recorded in the lost \u201cBooks of the Chronicles of the Kings\u201d (in his Introduction to the Book of Joshua, under the heading of his \u201cthird uncertainty \u2013 ha-safeq ha-shelishi\u201d). In the extensive process of answering this question, Abarbanel relates to our chapter in his specific comment on I Kings 14:29. He suggests that the Biblical narrative here chose to include only what it considered relevant to the specific history of Rehoboam\u2019s reign. However, additional events were recorded in one of the Chronicles of all the Kings of Judah, which included stories about Rehoboam.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Abarbanel goes on to suggest that among these no longer extant written records, an entire book was devoted to lauding Solomon (see I Kings 11:41), while just one other book was devoted to all the other kings of Judah, because they together were reckoned as historically important as Solomon alone. Whatever later biblical scholarship may make of Abarbanel\u2019s imaginative reconstruction of how the Scriptural record was committed to writing, it is worth noting that this historically important Jewish figure -- who almost succeeded in preventing the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 by offering an enormous sum to the Spanish monarchy -- suggests that the Biblical record selectively preserves primarily what was of lasting historical consequence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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With the passing of King Solomon and the division of the unified kingdom into the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah, history takes a pivotal turn. No longer are the entire 12 tribes a unity, however tenuous. Now \u2013 occasionally allies, often competitors or even enemies \u2013 the two neighboring nations confront the challenge that addressed the Children of Israel from the start: can we remain true to the covenant linking our people and God even when we possess power and wealth? Can we prioritize our values and aspirations above short-term self-interest and entangling alliances? Can we hold to what makes our spiritual voice distinctive and precious, or will we succumb to what is alluring, popular, or easy?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Linked to these pervasive background challenges (challenges that both the northern and southern kingdoms will fail in turn) is a related challenge: what remains significant over time is not necessarily what commands immediate attention day to day. History tends to recall and cherish by a different yardstick than does the gossip columnist or the stock market.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Regarding the ancient kings, the Bible warns us upfront. In the case of Jeroboam, we are treated to an extensive description of spiritual and moral backsliding. We are told how he does not pursue the pathways pleasing to God, but instead reverts to the pagan practices \u2013 ritual and ethical \u2013 of the Canaanites that had surrounded and assaulted ancient Israel. There\u2019s even a prophet, Ahiyah (Hebrew for \u201cGod is my sibling\u201d) who translates the news into what it signifies, \u201cYou have acted worse than all those who preceded you \u2026 [God] will uproot Israel because of the sins that Jeroboam committed and led Israel to commit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What about his statecraft? His battles? His buildings and civic improvements? Alliances? Taxes? All the \u201cnormal\u201d policies and achievements of a State? That gets relegated to a footnote: \u201cThe other events of Jeroboam\u2019s reign, how he fought and how he ruled, are recorded in the Annals of the Kings of Israel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

No one remembers Jeroboam for the things he would have been known for in his own day. He is remembered for the disastrous immorality and the spiritual dereliction he introduced into Israel\u2019s public life, one which ultimately would undermine and consume any other achievements.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

While others are distracted by the glitter of current events, power grabs, the pursuit of wealth, Biblical history bids us keep our gaze focused beneath the surface, at what is truly abiding. 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This brief notice suggests how selective the narratives of the kings are. Nothing is reported of the course of the war between the two kingdoms. For Jeroboam, we get only his backsliding into idolatry and the consequent prophecies of doom for his house. For the shorter narrative about Rehoboam, again we are told about the spread of pagan worship, and of the surrender of the treasures to Shishak -- nothing more. The story of the kings, in keeping with the deuteronomistic perspective, is more focused on cultic dereliction, always seen as the cause of historical disaster, than on political history.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Detail of the List of Shishak at Karnak, Showing Gibeon as Bound Captive:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Source: Pritchard, James B. Gibeon: Where the Sun Stood Still, Princeton University Press, 1962<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Rehoboam\u2019s Judah did what was displeasing to God. This phrase is primarily associated with the Israelites building shrines and altars outside of Jerusalem and worshipping God in the way other nations would worship their gods. After the death of Solomon, the Kingdom of Judah and the Kingdom of Israel, though divided, come to the same conclusion to fix a problem of inconvenience. Travel to Jerusalem is costly and time-consuming. The Kingdom of Israel, now a distinct political entity, does not want its citizens to worship God by sacrificing in Jerusalem which is in Judah. The Judean king, for his part, does not want his people to need to cross his whole territory to perform regular rituals.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What is so bad about having a local place to worship God?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God\u2019s instructions in Deuteronomy were clear. There will be a designated place for the worship of God, and that will be the only place for all time. Except that we know it would not be. For much of Jewish history now we have done without a sacrificial system. The rules for humanity changed greatly from Adam to Abraham to Moses to David, so it stands to reason that more changes over time would be necessary, even from the perspective of God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cTaboo Torah: Abomination -- What is in a word?\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Ben Flax: Explore sources on Biblical taboos.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. Mrs. Jeroboam - who are you hiding from?<\/em> Jeroboam says to his wife: \u201c\u201cGo and disguise yourself, so that you will not be recognized as Jeroboam\u2019s wife, and go to Shiloh\u201d (verse 2). Who is she hiding her identity from, and why? It\u2019s not Ahijah the prophet for \u201cNow Ahijah could not see, for his eyes had become sightless with age\u201d (verse 4). And besides, he has other channels of information, and he reprimands her: \u201cAhijah heard the sound of her feet as she came through the door, and he said, \u2018Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why are you disguised? I have a harsh message for you\u2019\u201d (verse 6).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. A little something for the prophet<\/em>. When one goes to a prophet, one takes along a little honorarium, but apparently there is no standardized pay scale. 60 chapters ago (1 Samuel 9), Saul\u2019s lad offered a quarter shekel of silver. Here, the king ups the ante <\/span>
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  3. Until the bitter end<\/em>. The sins of Jeroboam, that is, the cultic places that he established at Bethel and Dan, will accompany the kingdom of Israel to its end, which will come, according to the prophet because of them: \u201c\u201cThe LORD\u2026 will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have provoked the LORD by the sacred posts that they have made for themselves. He will forsake Israel because of the sins that Jeroboam committed and led Israel to commit\u201d (verses 15-16).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. The shields signify the changes<\/em>. The golden shields, which Solomon had made in his great wealth and regal glory only 4 chapters ago, are taken by the king of Egypt, that had still been Israel\u2019s ally only 3 chapters ago. And all this happens to Solomon\u2019s son - Rehoboam.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. No Gold<\/em>? We\u2019ll use bronze instead. But Rehoboam doesn\u2019t forego shields, and he makes bronze ones in their place. And if you asked yourself: what does a king do with ceremonial shields? Well, it\u2019s this: \u201cWhenever the king went into the House of the LORD, the guards would carry them and then bring them back to the armory of the guards.\u201d (verse 28). <\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","post_main_content_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"I Kings 14","tile_main_caption":"Points to Ponder","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Insights and questions for personal reflection and group discussion","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"I Kings","chapter":"14","chapter_main_number":"301","date":"20261025","wall_id":"301"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false}],"hide_acf":true,"home_image":false,"home_posts":false,"home_posts_title":"","posts_home":[],"static_cube_title":"","static_cube_brief":"","static_cube_color":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall\/62129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wall"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}