1. Jeroboam is often described as doing "evil in the sight of the Lord", and all the rest of the northern kings were described in the same way.
14 Facts About Jeroboam
1. 2.
Jeroboam was the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zereda.
3.
Jeroboam had at least two sons, Abijah and Nadab; Nadab succeeded Jeroboam on the throne.
4.
Jeroboam rebuilt and fortified Shechem as the capital of the northern kingdom.
5.
Jeroboam further deviated from normative Torah law by declaring the holiday of Sukkot in the eighth month of the calendar instead of the seventh.
6.
When Jeroboam attempted to have the prophet arrested for his bold words of defiance, the king's hand was "dried up", and the altar before which he stood was rent asunder.
7.
Jeroboam offered hospitality to the man of God but this was declined, not out of contempt but in obedience to the command of God.
8.
The wife of Jeroboam is a character in the Hebrew Bible.
9.
Jeroboam waged a major battle against Jeroboam in the mountains of Ephraim.
10.
The biblical account states that his elite warriors fended off a pincer movement and routed Jeroboam's troops, killing 500,000 of them.
11.
Jeroboam was crippled by this severe defeat to Abijah and posed little threat to the Kingdom of Judah for the rest of his reign.
12.
Jeroboam lost the towns of Bethel, Jeshanah, and Ephron, with their surrounding villages.
13.
Jeroboam is said to have invented one hundred and three interpretations of the law in reference to the priests to justify his course.
14.
God had offered to raise him into Gan 'Eden; but when Jeroboam heard that Jesse's son would enjoy the highest honors there, he refused.