Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.
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Interpretation
During the single reign of Asa in Judah, the government of Israel was in six or seven different hands. Notice the ruin of the family of Jeroboam; no word of God shall fall to the ground.
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This thought runs through 1 Kings 15:27-30.
Glossary
- Jeroboam Person
- Increase of the people. (1. ) The son of Nebat ( 1 Kings 11:26-39 ), “an Ephrathite,” the first king of the ten tribes, over whom he reigned twenty-two years (B. C. 976-945).