* 909 BC: Jeroboam, the first king of the northern Hebrew kingdom of Israel, dies and is succeeded by his son Nadab.

* 909 BC — Jeroboam, the first king of the northern Hebrew kingdom of Israel, dies and is succeeded by his son Nadab.

The name Jeroboam () is commonly held to have been derived from riyb () and ` am (), and signifying " the people contend ," or, " he pleads the people's cause " It is alternatively translated to mean " his people are many " or " he increases the people " ( from ( rbb ), meaning to increase ); or even " he that opposes the people ".

Amos, an older contemporary of Hosea and Isaiah, was active c. 750 BC during the reign of Jeroboam II, making the Book of Amos the first biblical prophetic book written.

Amos was a prophet during the reign of Jeroboam ben Joash ( Jeroboam II ), ruler of Israel from 793 BC to 753 BC, and the reign of Uzziah, King of Judah, at a time when both kingdoms ( Israel in the North and Judah in the South ) were peaking in prosperity.

The prophet, though blind with old age, knew the wife of Jeroboam as soon as she approached, and under a divine impulse he announced to her that inasmuch as in Abijah alone of all the house of Jeroboam there was found " some good thing toward the Lord ," he only would come to his grave in peace.

The apostasy of the people was rampant, having turned away from God in order to serve the calves of Jeroboam II and Baal, a Canaanite god.

Set in the reign of Jeroboam II ( 786-746 BC ), it was probably written in the post-exilic period, sometime between the late fifth to early fourth century BC.

The Jonah mentioned in II Kings 14: 25 lived during the reign of Jeroboam II ( 786-746 BC ) and was from the city of Gath-hepher.

Jeroboam was the son of Nebat ( Douay-Rheims: Nabat ), a member of the Tribe of Ephraim of Zereda, whose mother's name was Zeruah ( who later became a widow, and could have been leprous, as her name translates ; ) He had at least two sons — Abijam and Nadab, who succeeded him on the throne.

While still young, Jeroboam was promoted by Solomon to be chief superintendent of the " burnden ", i. e. the bands of forced laborers.

The conduct of Rehoboam favored the designs of Jeroboam, and he was accordingly proclaimed " king of Israel ".

According to, while Jeroboam was engaged in offering incense at Bethel, a " man of God " warned him that " a son named Josiah will be born to the house of David " who would destroy the altar ( referring to King Josiah of Judah who would rule approximately three hundred years later ).

Jeroboam was crippled by this severe defeat to Abijah and posed little threat to the Kingdom of Judah for the rest of his reign.

Jeroboam II from " Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum " Jeroboam II (; ; ) was the son and successor of Jehoash, ( alternatively spelled Joash ), and the fourteenth king of the ancient Kingdom of Israel, over which he ruled for forty-one years.

Jeroboam's reign was also the period of the prophets Hosea, Joel, Jonah and Amos, all of whom condemned the materialism and selfishness of the Israelite elite of their day: " Woe unto those who lie upon beds of ivory ... eat lambs from the flock and calves ... sing idle songs ..." The book of Kings, written a century later condemns Jeroboam for doing " evil in the eyes of the Lord ", meaning both the oppression of the poor and his continuing support of the cult centres of Dan and Bethel, in opposition to the temple in Jerusalem.

Near the end of his life Solomon was forced to contend with several enemies including Hadad of Edom, Rezon of Zobah, and one of his officials named Jeroboam who was from the tribe of Ephraim.

Jeroboam was crippled by this severe defeat at the hands of his southern rival, and posed little threat to the Kingdom of Judah for the rest of his reign.

The first king of the Northern Kingdom of Israel was Jeroboam, who came from the Tribe of Ephraim.

Shechem was the place appointed, after Solomon's death, for the meeting of the people of Israel and the investiture of Roboam ; the meeting ended in the secession of the ten northern tribes, and Sichem, fortified by Jeroboam, became for a while the capital of the new kingdom ( 1 Kings 12: 1 ; 14: 17 ; 2 Chronicles 10: 1 ).

According to the biblical narrative, Jeroboam, who became the first king of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, was also from the house of Ephraim.

Amos dated his prophecy to " two years before the earthquake, when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel " ( Amos 1: 1, NIV ).

# A son of Jeroboam, the first king of Israel.

When the Northern Kingdom of Israel broke away from the United Monarchy c. 930 BCE, Jeroboam, its first king, established his capital in Shechem.

Jeroboam was the first king of the northern Israelite Kingdom of Israel after the revolt of the ten northern Israelite tribes against Rehoboam that put an end to the United Monarchy.

) as “ an attack on the northern kingdom of Israel .” The second explanation relies on the “ sin of Jeroboam ,” who was the first king of the northern kingdom, as the cause of the northern kingdom ’ s fall to Assyria in 722 BCE.

The theological bias is seen in the way it judges each king of Israel on the basis of whether he recognises the authority of the temple in Jerusalem ( none do, and therefore all are " evil "), and each king of Judah on the basis of whether he destroys the " high places " ( rivals to the Temple in Jerusalem ); it gives only passing mention to important and successful kings like Omri and Jeroboam II and totally ignores one of the most significant events in ancient Israel's history, the battle of Qarqar.

However, the ten northern tribes revolted against his rule and invited Jeroboam to become their king.

However, ten of the Tribes of Israel refused to accept him as king, causing the United Monarchy to split and form the northern Kingdom of Israel ruled by Jeroboam, while Rehoboam continued to reign in the southern Kingdom of Judah.

* Jeroboam, Israelite Prince, regent, and future king

* 928 BC — On the death of King Solomon, his son Rehoboam is unable to hold the tribes of Israel together, and the northern part secedes to become the kingdom of Israel, making Jeroboam its king.

He not only considered it trivial to commit the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, but he also married Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal and worship him.

According to, Abijah became king of Judah in the 18th year of the reign of Jeroboam, and reigned for three years.

() Some twenty years after the breakup of the United Monarchy, Abijah, the second king of Kingdom of Judah, defeated Jeroboam of Israel and took back the towns of Bethel, Jeshanah and Ephron, with their surrounding villages.

() Then, some twenty years after the breakup of the United Monarchy, Abijah, the second king of Kingdom of Judah, defeated Jeroboam of Israel and took back the towns of Bethel, Jeshanah and Ephron, with their surrounding villages.

Baasha came to power by murdering the previous king, Nadab, followed by the entire House of Jeroboam ( Nadab's father and predecessor ).

Amos says that the earthquake was in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and Jeroboam ( II ), son of Jehoash king of Israel.

The prophecies of doom concerning the fall of both the House of Jeroboam and the northern kingdom as a whole (" For the Lord shall smite Israel ..., and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river ") might have been composed retroactively, after the events described had already come to pass ( this position is a secular or non-literal approach to scripture ).

Jeroboam and the people rebelled, with the ten northern tribes breaking away and forming a separate kingdom.

The United Monarchy breaks up, with Jeroboam ruling over the northern Kingdom of Israel ( Samaria ) | Kingdom of Israel ( blue on the map ) and Rehoboam ruling the Kingdom of Judah to the south.

However, on the accession of Rehoboam, Solomon's son, in c. 930 BCE, the northern tribes under the leadership of Jeroboam from the Tribe of Ephraim split from the House of David to reform a Kingdom of Israel as the Northern Kingdom.

Dtr1 saw Israel's history as a contrast between God's judgement on the sinful northern kingdom of Jeroboam I ( who set up the golden calves to be worshiped ) and virtuous Judah, where faithful king David had reigned and where now the righteous Josiah was reforming the kingdom.

In 922 BC, when Jeroboam I establishes the northern kingdom of Israel, he builds two golden calves and places them in Bethel and Dan.

After the death of Solomon the usurper Jeroboam sought to strengthen his hold on the northern 10 tribes by making two golden calves.

Jeroboam ’ s “ sin ” was creating two calves of gold, and sending one to Bethel as a worship site in the south of the Kingdom, and the other to Dan as a worship site in the north, so that the people of the northern kingdom would not have to continue to go to Jerusalem to worship ( see 1 Kings 12. 26 – 30 ).

After the death of King Solomon son of David, the ten northern tribes of the Kingdom of Israel rejected the Davidic line, refusing to accept Rehoboam son of Solomon, and instead chose as king Jeroboam and formed the northern Kingdom of Israel.