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.

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 ".

The people, led by Jeroboam, feared that Rehoboam would continue to tax them heavily-as had his father Solomon.

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

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 ).

His account in 2 Kings states that he was initially faithful to Yahweh, but his people followed the religious practices of the house of Jeroboam, which included the worship of a cultic pole of Asherah in Samaria.

Richard Elliott Friedman says " at a minimum we can say that the writer of the golden calf account in Exodus seems to have taken the words that were traditionally ascribed to Jeroboam and placed them in the mouths of the people.

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 ).

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

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'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.

Some twenty years after the breakup of the united kingdom, Abijah took the occasion of the defeat of Jeroboam to take back the towns of Bethel, Jeshanah and Ephron, with their surrounding villages.

() 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.

An analysis of the data for Jeroboam II of Israel and Jehoshaphat of Judah, both of whom had coregencies, shows that their years were measured in this way.

I didn't ask for a Jeroboam of champagne ''.

Omri, King of Israel, continued policies dating from the reign of Jeroboam, contrary to the laws of Moses, that were intended to reorient religious focus away from Jerusalem: encouraging the building of local temple altars for sacrifices, appointing priests from outside the family of the Levites, and allowing or encouraging temples dedicated to the Canaanite god, Baal.

Jeroboam reigned for 22 years.

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.

The same names are used for bottles containing wine and port ; however Jeroboam, Rehoboam and Methuselah refer to different bottle volumes.

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.

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

And the only exception to this destruction was for the grave of an unnamed prophet he found in Bethel (), who had foretold that these religious sites Jeroboam erected would one day be destroyed ( see ).

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.

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

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 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.

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 ( Hebrew: yarobh ` am, Hieroboam ) 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.

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.

This " man of God " who warned Jeroboam has been equated with a seer named Iddo.

He waged a major battle against Jeroboam in the mountains of Ephraim.

Biblical sources credit Abijah with having a force of 400, 000 and Jeroboam having 800, 000.

Gerard Hoet, Ahijah's prophecy to Jeroboam, 1728.

Their plan for rotation of leaders promised a salutary blow at `` bureaucracy '' and would enable `` the people '' to take a more direct and active part in running the country.

Thus she, through whom salvation was being prepared for all people, would be the first to receive the promised fruit of salvation.

By the beginning of 1204, Isaac II and Alexios IV had inspired little confidence among the people of Constantinople in their efforts to defend the city from the Latins and Venetians, who were restless and rioted when the money and aid promised by Alexios IV was not forthcoming.

Deuteronomy contains the laws by which Israel is to live in the promised land, Joshua chronicles the conquest of Canaan, the promised land, and its allotment among the tribes, Judges describes the settlement of the land, Samuel the consolidation of the land and people under David, and Kings the destruction of kingship and loss of the land.

His " people " were Abraham, the people of Israel, then the faithful remnant of Israel, and finally the promised Messiah ( Ps 2 ).

First, Kennedy had explicitly promised the American people less than a month before the crisis that " if Cuba should possess a capacity to carry out offensive actions against the United States ... the United States would act.

God gave her " manna " from heaven even while he was withholding food from his unfaithful people in the promised land.

Another factor on early ARPANET mailing lists was netiquette, wherein people asking questions typically " promised to ' summarize ' received answers.

Mussolini promised a “ social revolution ” for “ remaking ” the Italian people.

Benito Mussolini promised a " social revolution " that would " remake " the Italian people.

The Democratic Party had to implement the reforms it had promised, but they were either too slow or didn't solve the problems, so the people were disappointed when their hopes for fast prosperity went unfulfilled.

This was the result of the annexation of Goa in 1961 by India, when Nehru promised the people that their laws would be left intact.

He had promised that those who surrendered would not be harmed, and indeed, they were not attacked directly, but the journey was hard on the people, as they were already starving and poorly clothed, and the provisions were scanty.

Applauded by the Mauritanian people, but cautiously watched by the international community, the coup has since been generally accepted, while the military junta has promised to organize elections within two years.

It is argued that one was to be born and rise within the dispensation of Muhammad, who by virtue of his similarity and affinity with Jesus, and the similarity in nature, temperament and disposition of the people of Jesus ' time and the people of the time of the promised one ( the Mahdi ) is called by the same name.

When its contents were read to the clergy and people in the church of St. Mary Major in 656, they not only rejected the letter with indignation, but would not allow the pope to leave the basilica until he had promised that he would not on any account accept it.

The book begins with the journey of Jared and his people from the tumultuous wickedness of the Tower of Babel to " the promised land.

The Americas are still considered " the promised land " and the continued prosperity of the present nations are believed to be contingent on the righteousness of their people.

Moreover, Jupiter promised that at the sunrise of the following day he would give to Numa and the Roman people pawns of the imperium.

In 1933, President Roosevelt had created the Tennessee Valley Authority ( TVA ), which promised to provide flood control and cheap electricity to the impoverished people of the Tennessee River Valley.

Some people invested and were paid off as promised, receiving $ 750 interest on initial investments of $ 1, 250.