For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
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Interpretation
When men forsake God, they will be left to plague one another. Proud aspiring men ruin one another.
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This thought runs through 1 Kings 16:25-28.
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).
- Nebat Person
- Sight; aspect, the father of Jeroboam, the king of Israel ( 1 Kings 11:26 , etc. ).