Bible Cross References
Jeroboam
1 Kings 11:11
and said to him, "Because you have deliberately broken your covenant with me and disobeyed my commands, I promise that I will take the kingdom away from you and give it to one of your officials.
1 Kings 11:28
Jeroboam was an able young man, and when Solomon noticed how hard he worked, he put him in charge of all the forced labor in the territory of the tribes of Manasseh and Ephraim.
1 Kings 12:2
When Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had gone to Egypt to escape from King Solomon, heard this news, he returned from Egypt.
1 Kings 12:20-24
20
When the people of Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned from Egypt, they invited him to a meeting of the people and made him king of Israel. Only the tribe of Judah remained loyal to David's descendants.
21
When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he called together 180,000 of the best soldiers from the tribes of Judah and Benjamin. He intended to go to war and restore his control over the northern tribes of Israel.
22
But God told the prophet Shemaiah
23
to give this message to Rehoboam and to all the people of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin:
24
"Do not attack your own relatives, the people of Israel. Go home, all of you. What has happened is my will." They all obeyed the LORD's command and went back home.
1 Kings 13:1-10
1
At the LORD's command a prophet from Judah went to Bethel and arrived there as Jeroboam stood at the altar to offer the sacrifice.
2
Following the LORD's command, the prophet denounced the altar: "O altar, altar, this is what the LORD says: A child, whose name will be Josiah, will be born to the family of David. He will slaughter on you the priests serving at the pagan altars who offer sacrifices on you, and he will burn human bones on you."
3
And the prophet went on to say, "This altar will fall apart, and the ashes on it will be scattered. Then you will know that the LORD has spoken through me."
4
When King Jeroboam heard this, he pointed at him and ordered, "Seize that man!" At once the king's arm became paralyzed so that he couldn't pull it back.
5
The altar suddenly fell apart and the ashes spilled to the ground, as the prophet had predicted in the name of the LORD.
6
King Jeroboam said to the prophet, "Please pray for me to the LORD your God, and ask him to heal my arm!" The prophet prayed to the LORD, and the king's arm was healed.
7
Then the king said to the prophet, "Come home with me and have something to eat. I will reward you for what you have done."
8
The prophet answered, "Even if you gave me half of your wealth, I would not go with you or eat or drink anything with you.
9
The LORD has commanded me not to eat or drink a thing, and not to return home the same way I came."
10
So he did not go back the same way he had come, but by another road.
1 Kings 14:16
The LORD will abandon Israel because Jeroboam sinned and led the people of Israel into sin."
1 Kings 15:30
This happened because Jeroboam aroused the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel, by the sins that he committed and that he caused Israel to commit.
1 Kings 16:3
and so I will do away with you and your family, just as I did with Jeroboam.
1 Kings 21:22
Your family will become like the family of King Jeroboam son of Nebat and like the family of King Baasha son of Ahijah, because you have stirred up my anger by leading Israel into sin.'
an Ephrathite
Genesis 35:16
Jacob and his family left Bethel, and when they were still some distance from Ephrath, the time came for Rachel to have her baby, and she was having difficult labor.
Ruth 1:2
(SEE 1:1)
1 Samuel 1:1
There was a man named Elkanah, from the tribe of Ephraim, who lived in the town of Ramah in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham and grandson of Elihu, and belonged to the family of Tohu, a part of the clan of Zuph.
1 Samuel 17:12
David was the son of Jesse, who was an Ephrathite from Bethlehem in Judah. Jesse had eight sons, and at the time Saul was king, he was already a very old man.
1 Chronicles 2:19
After the death of Azubah, Caleb married Ephrath, and they had a son named Hur.
Solomon's servant
1 Kings 9:22
Solomon did not make slaves of Israelites; they served as his soldiers, officers, commanders, chariot captains, and cavalry.
2 Chronicles 13:6
Jeroboam son of Nebat rebelled against Solomon, his king.