1 KINGS 14:15 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“For the Lord shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the Lord to anger.”
For he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he sinned and made Israel to sin.' — The oracle concludes with the formulaic indictment that will echo through all northern kings: "the sin of Jeroboam which made Israel to sin." The phrase עַל־חַטּוֹת יָרְבְּעָם אֲשֶׁר־חָטָא וַיֶּחֱטִא אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵל (because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned and made Israel to sin) shows that individual apostasy metastasizes into institutional idolatry, infecting the entire northern kingdom generationally.
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