2 Kings 17:21

When God tore Israel from David's house, Jeroboam led them into great sin. The northern kingdom's founding sin shaped its whole history.

Cross-references · 16

• 1 Kgs 11:11Therefore Yahweh said to Solomon, “Because this is done by you, and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant.
• 1 Kgs 11:31He said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to you
• 1 Kgs 12:28–30So the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look and behold your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
• Isa 7:17Yahweh will bring on you, on your people, and on your father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
• 1 Kgs 14:16He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin.”
• Gen 20:9Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!”
• 2 Chr 11:15He himself appointed priests for the high places, for the male goats, and for the calves which he had made.
• 1 Kgs 12:19–20So Israel rebelled against David’s house to this day.
• John 19:11Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”
• Ps 25:11For your name’s sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.
• 1 Sam 2:24No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear! You make Yahweh’s people disobey.
• Exod 32:21Moses said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?”
• 1 Kgs 14:8and tore the kingdom away from David’s house, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes,
• 2 Chr 11:11He fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and stores of food, oil and wine.
• 2 Chr 10:15–19So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was brought about by God, that Yahweh might establish his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
• 1 Sam 2:17The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised the offering of Yahweh.

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