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Day 200 and 20.
jarbo then built up the city of Shechem in the hill country of
Raim, and it became his capital.
Later he went and built up the town of penal Jarbo, thought to himself,
unless I am careful, the kingdom will return to the dynasty of David.
When these people go to Jerusalem to offer sacrifices at the temple of
the Lord, they will again give their allegiance to King Rehoboam of Judah.
They will kill me and make him their king instead.
So on the advice of his counselors, the king made two gold calves.
He said to the people, it is too much trouble for you to worship in Jerusalem.
Look Israel, these are the gods who brought you out of Egypt.
He placed these calf idols in Bethel and in Dan at either end of his kingdom.
But this became a great sin for the people, worshiped the idols, traveling as
far north as Dan to worship the one there.
Jar Boem, also erected buildings at the Pagan shrines and ordained priests
from the common people, those who are not from the priestly tribe of Levi.
And Jar Boham instituted a religious festival in Bethel, held on the
15th day of the eighth month in imitation of the Annual Festival of
Shelters in Judah there at Bethel.
He himself offered sacrifices to the calves he had made, and he appointed
priests for the pagan shrines he had made.
So on the 15th day of the eighth month, a day that he himself
had designated jar, bom offered sacrifices on the altar at Bethel.
He instituted a religious festival for Israel, and he went up to the altar
to burn incense at the Lord's command.
A man of God from Judah went to Bethel.
Arriving there just as Jarre Boham was approaching the altar to burn incense.
Then at the Lord's command, he shouted, oh, altar alter.
This is what the Lord says.
A child named Josiah will be born into the dynasty of David.
On you.
He will sacrifice the priests from the pagan shrines who come
here to burn incense, and human bones will be burned on you.
That same day, the man of God gave a sign to prove his message.
He said, the Lord has promised to give this sign.
This altar will split apart and its ashes will be poured out on the ground.
When King Jeroboam heard the man of God speaking against the
altar at Bethel, he pointed at him and shouted, seize that man.
But instantly, the king's hand became paralyzed in that position
and he couldn't pull it back.
At the same time, a wide crack appeared in the altar and the ashes
poured out just as the man of God had predicted in his message from the Lord.
The king cried out to the man of God, please ask the Lord your
God to restore my hand again.
So the man of God prayed to the Lord and the king's hand was
restored and he could move it again.
Then the king said to the man of God, come to the palace with me and have something
to eat, and I will give you a gift.
But the man of God said to the king, even if you gave me half of everything
you own, I would not go with you.
I would not eat or drink anything in this place.
For the Lord gave me this command.
You must not eat or drink anything while you are there and do not return
to Judah by the same way you came.
So he left Bethel and went home another way.
As it happened, there was an old prophet living in Bethel, and his sons
came home and told him what the man of God had done in Bethel that day.
They also told their father what the man had said to the king.
The old prophet asked them, which way did he go?
So they showed their father, which road the man of God had taken
quick, saddled the donkey, the old man said, so they saddled the
donkey for him and he mounted it.
Then he rode after the man of God and found him sitting under a great tree.
The old prophet asked him, are you the man of God who came from Judah?
Yes I am.
He replied.
Then he said to the man of God, Come home with me and eat some food.
No, I cannot.
He replied, I am not allowed to eat or drink anything here in this place.
For the Lord gave me this command.
You must not eat or drink anything while you are there and do not
return to Judah by the same way you came, but the old prophet answered.
I am a prophet too, just as you are.
And an angel gave me this command from the Lord.
Bring him home with you so he can have something to eat and drink.
The old man was lying to him, so they went back together and the man of God
ate and drank at the prophet's home.
Then while they were sitting at the table, a command from the
Lord came to the old prophet.
He cried out to the man of God from Judah.
This is what the Lord says.
You have defied the word of the Lord and have disobeyed the command.
The Lord your God gave you.
You came back to this place and ate and drank where he
told you not to eat or drink.
Because of this, your body will not be buried in the grave of your ancestors.
After the man of God had finished eating and drinking, the old prophet saddled his
own donkey for him, and the man of God started off again, but as he was traveling
along, a lion came out and killed him.
His body lay there on the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside it.
People who passed by saw the body lying in the road and the lions standing
beside it, and they went and reported it in Bethel where the old prophet lived.
When the prophet heard the report, he said, it is the man of God
who disobeyed the Lord's command.
The Lord has fulfilled his word by causing the lion to attack and kill him.
Then the prophet said to his sons, saddle a donkey for me.
So they saddled a donkey and he went out and found the body lying in the road.
The donkey and lion were still standing there beside it, for the lion had not
eaten the body, nor attacked the donkey.
So the prophet laid the body of the man of God on the donkey and took it back to
the town to mourn over him and bury him.
He laid the body in his own grave, crying out in grief.
Oh my brother.
Afterward.
The prophet said to his sons, when I die, bury me in the grave where the man of God
is buried, lay my bones beside his bones.
For the message the Lord told him to proclaim against the altar in Bethel and
against the pagan shrines in the towns of Samaria will certainly come true.
But even after this jar, Boham did not turn from his evil ways.
He continued to choose priests from the common people.
He appointed anyone who wanted to become a priest for the Pagan shrines.
This became a great sin and resulted in the utter destruction of Jar BOM's
Dynasty from the face of the Earth.
At that time, jar BOM's son, AB Baja, became very sick.
So Jarbo told his wife, disguise yourself so that no one will
recognize you as my wife.
Then go to the prophet, a hijah at Shiloh.
The man who told me I would become king, take him a gift of 10 loaves of
bread, some cakes and a jar of honey, and ask him what will happen to the boy.
So Jar BOM's wife went to a Hijah home at Shiloh.
He was an old man now and could no longer see, but the Lord had told
a Hijah Jira BOM's wife will come here pretending to be someone else.
She will ask you about her son for he's very sick.
Give her the answer I give you.
So when Hijah heard her footsteps at the door, he called out,
come in, wife of Jeroboam.
Why are you pretending to be someone else?
Then he told her, I have bad news for you.
Give your husband Jeroboam this message from the Lord, the God of Israel.
I promoted you from the ranks of the common people and made
you ruler over my people Israel.
I ripped the kingdom away from the family of David and gave it to you, but you have
not been like my servant David, who obeyed my commands and followed me with all his
heart, and always did whatever I wanted.
You have done more evil than all who lived before you.
You have made other gods for yourself and have made me
furious with your gold calves.
And since you have turned your back on me, I will bring disaster on
your dynasty and will destroy every one of your male descendants, slave
and free alike anywhere in Israel.
I will burn up your Royal dynasty as one burns up trash until it is all gone.
The members of Jar BOM's family who die in the city will be eaten
by dogs and those who die in the field will be eaten by vultures.
I, the Lord have spoken.
Then Ajah said to Gerald BOM's wife, go on home and when you
enter the city, the child will die.
All Israel will mourn for him and bury him.
He is the only member of your family who will have a proper burial for
this child, is the only good thing that the Lord the God of Israel sees
in the entire family of Jarre Beum.
In addition, the Lord will raise up a king over Israel who will
destroy the family of Jeroboam.
This will happen today, even now.
Then the Lord will shake Israel like a reed whipped about in a stream.
He will uproot the people of Israel from this good land that he gave
their ancestors and will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River for they
have angered the Lord with the Ashera poles they have set up for worship.
He will abandon Israel because Jera Boem sinned and made Israel sin along with him.
So Jar Beam's, wife returned to Teza and the child died just as she walked through
the door of her home and all Israel buried him and mourned for him as the Lord had
promised through the prophet a hijah.
The rest of the events in Jar BOM's reign, including all his wars and how
he ruled, are recorded in the book of the history of the Kings of Israel.
Jeroboam reigned in Israel 22 years.
When Jeroboam died, his son Naab became the next king.
This concludes today's immerse reading experience.
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