Quotes about Jeroboam
So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from God, in order that the LORD might fulfill the word that He had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.
— 2 Chronicles 10:15
that this is what the LORD says: ‘You are not to go up and fight against your brothers. Each of you must return home, for this word is from Me.’” So they listened to the words of the LORD and turned back from going against Jeroboam.
— 2 Chronicles 11:4
For the Levites left their pasturelands and their possessions and went to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them as priests of the LORD.
— 2 Chronicles 11:14
And Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat demons and calf idols he had made.
— 2 Chronicles 11:15
In the eighteenth year of Jeroboam’s reign, Abijah became king of Judah,
— 2 Chronicles 13:1
and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother’s name was Micaiah daughter of Uriel; she was from Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
— 2 Chronicles 13:2
Abijah went into battle with an army of 400,000 chosen men, while Jeroboam drew up in formation against him with 800,000 chosen and mighty men of valor.
— 2 Chronicles 13:3
Then Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim in the hill country of Ephraim and said, “Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel!
— 2 Chronicles 13:4
Yet Jeroboam son of Nebat, a servant of Solomon son of David, rose up and rebelled against his master.
— 2 Chronicles 13:6
And now you think you can resist the kingdom of the LORD, which is in the hands of David’s descendants. You are indeed a vast army, and you have with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made for you as gods.
— 2 Chronicles 13:8
Now Jeroboam had sent troops around to ambush from the rear, so that while he was in front of Judah, the ambush was behind them.
— 2 Chronicles 13:13
and the men of Judah raised the battle cry. And when they raised the cry, God routed Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
— 2 Chronicles 13:15