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| | Jeroboam (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net |
 | | Jeroboam II., the son and successor of Jehoash, and the fourteenth king of Israel, over which he ruled for forty-one years, B.C. 2 Kings 14:23). | | | The conduct of Rehoboam favored the designs of Jeroboam, and he was accordingly proclaimed "king of Israel" (1 Kings 12: 1-20). | | | In all other passages it is Jeroboam the son of Nebat that is meant. |
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| | JewishEncyclopedia.com - JEROBOAM |
| | Jeroboam, in anger, stretched forth his hand, commanding his attendants to seize the prophet of evil, whereupon the king's hand was "dried up" and the altar was rent; the king recovered the use of his hand only by humbly imploring the prophet to restore it (II Kings xiii. | | | Jeroboam, undeterred by this incident, continued his policy of appointing priests regardless of their Levitical origin (I Kings xiii. | | | The account of Jeroboam's reign as contained in the First Book of Kings reflects the religious views of later, post-Deuteronomic times, though it is not altogether true that it is written from the Judean standpoint, as stated by Well-hausen in Bleek's "Einleitung" (4th ed., p. |
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| | Jeroboam II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Jeroboam II was the son and successor of Jehoash, and the fourteenth king of Israel, over which he ruled for forty-one years (2 Kings 14:23). | | | In all other passages it is Jeroboam I, the son of Nebat that is meant. | | | 4:12-14), by following the example of the first Jeroboam in promoting the worship of the golden calves (2 Kings 14:24). |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Jeroboam |
| | II was the twelfth successor of the preceeding and the fourth king of the dynasty of Jehu. | | | Before the end of the latter's reign, Jeroboam received from the Prophet Abias an intimation that he was destined to be king over ten of the tribes which in punishment of the idolatry of Solomon were about to sever their allegiance to him and his house. | | | At the same time it was promised that if Jeroboam were faithful to the Lord his house would be confirmed in authority over Israel (1 Kings 11:38). |
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| | Crosswalk.com - Bible Pathways 05/06/04 |
| | Jeroboam restored the coast (boundaries) of Israel from the entering of Hamath to the sea of the plain, according to the Word of the LORD God of Israel, which He spoke by the hand of His servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet (II Kings 14:25). | | | Jeroboam was succeeded by his son Zechariah (14:29) who reigned only six months (15:8).This was the fourth and last generation of the house of Jehu (15:12). | | | About 30 years after Jeroboam's death, the words of the prophets were fulfilled. |
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| | JewishEncyclopedia.com - JONAH. |
| | The next succeeding prophet, Amos of Tekoa, whose activity fell in the reign of Jeroboam II., begins an entirely new series, as regards not only his position toward the king and the people, but also his method of communication, in that he resorted to writing instead of the spoken word. | | | The book, however, doubtless refers to the same prophet Jonah as is mentioned in II Kings xiv. | | | Prophet in the days of Jeroboam II.; son of Amittai of Gath-hepher. |
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| | A. S. Johnson's Kingdom of Israel |
| | Jeroboam II., was succeeded by his son Zachariah in whom was fulfilled the promise of the Lord to Jehu (II. | | | Jeroboam established himself at Shechem in Mt. Ephraim, and in order to prevent the people from going to Jerusalem to worship, set up two golden calves, one at Bethel and the other at Dan, assuring the people that these were the gods that had brought them out of the land of Egypt (I. | | | Jehoram was slain and succeeded by Jehu, the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi. |
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| | 1 Kings 12 - Rehoboam and Jeroboam |
| | Spiritually speaking, Israel was struck twice - by the ungodly religion of Jeroboam and by the departure of the godly and faithful. | | | The issue of true religion was unimportant to Jeroboam; he was interested in useful religion. | | | Jeroboam is an example of those who create their own religion according to their own taste. |
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| | HOSEA - LoveToKnow Article on HOSEA |
| | He prophesied (1) in the days of TJzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah; (2) in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. | | | On the other hand, the prophet connects with the birth of his eldest child the approaching fall of the house of Jehu (i. | | | The dates indicated by the title, which may be regarded as editorial, are, for the four kings of the southern kingdom, 789740, 739734, 733721 and 720693 B.C. respectively; and, for Jeroboam II., |
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| | Amos1 |
| | II We heard that Amos was called by God to prophesy against the sins of God’s people living in the kingdom of the Ten Tribes. | | | Jeroboam had recaptured all the territory which Israel had lost to Aram during the reign of King Jehoahaz, whilst he had also recaptured from Damascus and Hamath, what had belonged to Judah. | | | This was in the days that King Jeroboam II reigned over Israel; a reign -as I said in the beginning of the sermon- which was characterised by peace and great prosperity. |
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| | Seal of Shema, Servant of Jeroboam |
| | The reason for God's great anger against Jeroboam is found in 2 Kings 10:29 which states that he built golden calves in the cities of Bethel and Dan and caused the children of Israel to worship idols instead of the one true God. | | | In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, became king in Samaria, and reigned forty-one years. | | | The seal belonged to a servant of one of the early kings of Israel, either Jeroboam I, who ruled shortly after the reign of king Solomon from 931-909 B.C., or Jeroboam II, who ruled from 782-745 B.C. at the time of Jonah the prophet. |
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| | The Abiding Gift of Prophecy-The Last Prophets of Israel |
| | Jeroboam, the king, acted promptly upon the prediction of the prophet Jonah, that the coast of Israel which had been taken from the nation would be restored. | | | Jeroboam II succeeded his father Joash as king, and Jonah, Amos, and Hosea followed Elisha in the prophetic office. | | | “Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words. |
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| | ANE History: Israel and the Assyrias |
| | The house of Jeroboam was to be visited with the sword (Amos 7:9) and the people were to be carried into captivity (Amos 5:27), predictions which the next quarter of a century was to justify fully. | | | In the brief notices in the Book of Kings the "might" of Jeroboam is stressed and "how he recovered Damascus and Hamath, which had belonged to Judah, for Israel" (2 Kings 14:28) and how "he restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath unto the sea of the 'Arabah" (2 Kings 14:25). | | | Under the Aramaic form of the name, "Barhadad, son of Hazael, king of Aram" is presented as heading a coalition of twelve to eighteen kings against "Zakir, king of Hamath and Lu'ash". |
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| | Devotional Commentary by HJK |
| | He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which he spoke by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gathhepher. | | | Nonetheless, in the days of Jeroboam II, much land was restored to Israel, in keeping with God's promise. | | | God showed His faithfulness to Israel in using Jeroboam II to keep them a nation in spite of their idolatry. |
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| | Bible History, Old Testament: Vol VII - Chapter 5 |
| | It is not only that it points to a preaching of repentance to the Gentiles also, and to their ingathering with believing Israel into the family of God, but the circumstances of the time give it a special meaning. | | | Nay, Jeroboam and his priest at Bethel proceeded to actual persecution of the prophets of the Lord (Amos 7:10-17). | | | At the accession of Uzziah (as we shall prefer to call him) the throne of Israel had been already occupied for fourteen years by Jeroboam II., the son and successor of that Jehoash who had inflicted such defeat on Amaziah of Judah (2 Kings 14:23). |
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| | Jeroboam II, thus had the great distinction of restoring the boundaries of the Kingdom of Israel to the proportions of the empire of David and Solomon, "from the entrance of Hamath unto the sea of Arabah," which is the Dead Sea. | | | Not since the days when the first Jeroboam led the rebellion of the ten tribes against King Solomon's weak son, Rehoboam, and established the independent kingdom of the Ten Tribes, with Samaria as the capital, was there such rejoicing in that city. | | | For thus hath Amos said, 'Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.'" The messenger proceeded, post haste, to the palace of the king, and Amaziah, quietly and with dignity, went to the sanctuary. |
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| | Minor Prophets 2 - Book of Hosea |
| | Jeroboam II is the only Israelite king named in the title to Hosea's book, in spite of the fact that internal evidence suggests that Hosea's ministry continued from the last days of Jeroboam II to near the end of the Northern Kingdom (approximately 750-725 B.C.). | | | He also refers to one King of Israel (Jeroboam II) but lived to see the last six kings of Israel and prophesied until a few years before the nations captivity. | | | The dating of his prophetic writings are from 755-725 BC during the time of four different Kings of Judah. |
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| | Nabataea: Bible Chronologies Solomon to Hezekiah Part I |
| | (II Chronicles 24:17ff) As might be expected, strong protests came form the priests, and some of Jehoiada's sons perished at the hands of the ungrateful king; one was stoned to death when he prophesied against the king. | | | (II Chronicles 25:14) Directly after this change of religion Amaziah was severely defeated in a war he himself had provoked with the King of Israel. | | | The Ahaziah of II Kings 8:25 was certainly Jehoram's son, and thus we are left with but one conclusion, there were two Ahaziahs, one Jehoshaphat's son, the other Jehoram's son. |
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| | A. S. Johnson's Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia [Kingdom of Judah]. |
| | The prophets Jehu, the son of Hanani (II. | | | The prophet Amos flourished during the reigns of Uzziah king of Judah and Jeroboam II., king of Israel (Amos, 1:1). | | | On [181] account of the apostasy of Jeroboam and Israel, the priests, Levites and other true worshippers remaining in Israel repaired to Jerusalem to worship God, and they therefore strengthened the king (II. |
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| | Jeroboam I (Forerunner Commentary) :: Bible Tools |
| | The religion of Israel began with a man, Jeroboam I, who changed the true worship of God (I Kings 12:26-33). | | | God selected Jeroboam I to become king of the northern ten tribes of Israel after Solomon (I Kings 11:29-31), however He made the continuance of Jeroboam's dynasty contingent upon his obedience (verse 38). | | | Obviously, Jeroboam was not walking by faith because he was more concerned about the people leaving him. |
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| | The Kings of Judah |
| | Jeroboam set up his own order of priest, sacrifices and feasts. | | | However, he was rebuked by the prophet Hanani for relying on the Syrian king instead of God. | | | Synopsis - The son of Ahab, Ahaziah continued in the worship of Baal. |
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| | Jeroboam I |
| | Nebat - Nebat, in the Bible, father of King Jeroboam I. Tirzah - Tirzah, in the Bible. | | | Jeroboam I, in the Bible, first king of the northern kingdom of Israel. | | | Jeroboam (lived 10th century BC) (The Hutchinson Encyclopedia) |
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| | Cakes, Doves and Bows |
| | Under Jeroboam II the Lord had even allowed the northern kingdom to regain some territory that they had previously lost to the Syrians (compare 2 Kings 10:32 and 14:25). | | | The sexual immorality of the pagan fertility rites and the ghastly practice of child sacrifice were included in the pagan religions introduced and tolerated by Solomon. | | | Although Jonah is known primarily for his commission to preach at Nineveh of Assyria, he was a prophet of God to Israel as well. |
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| | 2kings13 |
| | It was Jeroboam that created this new form of religion after the death of Solomon, and the purpose was to stop the people from going to Jerusalem, and forming ties to Judah that he could not control. | | | Back on pages 8 and 9 of this II Kings book, you will find a lineage table of the two kingdoms, it allows us to keep track of who was reigning in Israel, while the other king was reigning in Judah. | | | It was in that battle that king Joash of Judah was wounded, and went to the house of Millo to heal, and Joash was killed by there by two of his own servants. |
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| | Jeroboam II / Amaziah & Azariah(Uzziah) |
| | Jeroboam II is the son of Joash king of Israel. | | | Note: Both Israel and Judah were ruled by a king named Jehoash/Joash. | | | Despite his wickedness (see above) he benefitted Israel through the restoration of territory (15:25,28). |
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| | Biblical Archaeology: Iron Age IIB |
| | Because of the idolatry of Solomon, ten tribes were torn away from Rehoboam and given to Jeroboam to become the northern kingdom of Israel. | | | In the kingdom period Jeroboam I (930-920) made a shrine here and put one of the golden calves he had made in it. | | | So Jeroboam installed all kinds of riff-raff as his priests. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Jeroboam II |
| | Jeroboam II, King of Israel (reigned 786-746 bc), son of King Joash of Israel. | | | Jeroboam I, according to the Old Testament (see 1, 2 Kings; 2 Chronicles), the first king of the northern kingdom of Israel (reigned 922-901 bc), a... | | | During his reign, Jeroboam recovered the lost provinces of Ammon and... |
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| | 2kings15 |
| | That is the basis of man's traditions, for the sons learn the wickedness from their fathers and continue down the same road of wickedness, and pass it on to their sons. | | | The sins of Jeroboam were that of building a local religion for the sake of making worship easier. | | | It was God's way, and Jeroboam did not want his people to leave Israel for the sake of religious practices, so he created his own places of Worship. |
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| | 2 Kings 14 - The Reigns of Amaziah and Jeroboam II |
| | He did evil in the sight of the Lord: Jeroboam II was a wicked king, who continued the politically-motivated idolatry of his namesake | | | In the days of King Jehoahaz of Israel God promised to send a deliverer to Israel, one who helped them to escape from under the hand of the Syrians (2 Kings 13:4-5). | | | , Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of |
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| | Introduction to II Kings (4) A Concluding Word |
| | During the period of the kings, the children of Israel were initially put in the blessed position of being a people enjoying the good land of Canaan to be a kingdom for the testimony of God. | | | As an aside, notice there were two Jeroboam (Jeroboam I and Jeroboam II) in the kings of Israel, and there were kings named Jehoram, Ahaziah, Jehoash in both Judah and Israel. | | | After Israel was carried away to the Assyrian captivity, Judah became the only surviving Jewish kingdom to perpetuate the testimony for God. |
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| | Song of the Vineyard |
| | Elisha the prophet was a younger contemporary of Elijah (I Kings 19:19-21; II Kings 2-13) who died during the reign of Joash, Jehu’s grandson (837-800). | | | The mighty protest of the North in which Jeroboam figures centrally is inspired if not led by prophetic Yahwism in the person of Ahijah. | | | Now, like Samuel and Nathan and Ahijah in the tenth century, Elijah, Micaiah, and Elisha are instrumental in the ninth century in bringing the Word of Yahweh into history, in conflict with and in judgment upon the life of the king, and in effective encounter with the life of Israel. |
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| | BGCT: DSW: Old Testament Text: Lecture 22: 1 & 2 Kings (3 o f 3) |
| | (II Kings 8:1624)son of Jehoshaphat, married Athaliah, daughter of Ahab and Jezebel, and promoted the worship of Baal. | | | (II Kings 8:2527)the son of Jehoram and Athaliah, ruled for one year. | | | The unstable reigns of Shallum, Menahem, Pekahiah and Pekah presented the Assyrian King Pul (TiglathPileser) with an opportunity to bring Israel into his sphere of influence, exacting heavy tribute from Menahem (II Kings 15:1722). |
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| | Joash II |
| | On the death of Joash II, his son Jeroboam II ascended the throne of Israel, with nothing but a bright future to look forward to. | | | Joash II also met Amaziah, king of Judah, in battle and inflicted a terrible loss on them. | | | While he still worshipped the calf idols set up at Bethel and Dan by his ancestors, he nonetheless respected the prophet Elisha. |
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| | The Later Kings of Israel: A Kingdom's Downfall > The Good News : September/October 1998 |
| | Eugene Merrill explains that through his political leadership "Jeroboam was able not only to recover the territories of Israel proper which had fallen over the years to Damascus, but to bring all of south Aram and the Transjordan back under Israelite hegemony (2 Kings 14:25-28)" (A Kingdom of Priests, 1987, p. | | | Then Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and struck and killed him in front of the people; and he reigned in his place... | | | "In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reigned over Israel in Samaria six months. |
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| | Old Testament History III, Lesson 4 |
| | They all followed Jeroboam in the worship of the golden calves, and many also worshipped other false deities, such as Baal. |
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| | X, X Ben Y, Ben Y: Personal Names |
| | Although the prophet has a painful message for her, he is no more disparaging towards her than is the narrator who also uses 'wife of Jeroboam' (vv. | | | It may be argued that it is not coincidental that just at the point where the Deuteronomic narrator wishes to stress the superlative enormity of a king's sin ('more than all who had preceded him'; 'all the way of Jeroboam') he uses the 'XbY' form. | | | 2 Kgs 17.21 'When he had torn Israel from the house of David they made Jeroboam b. |
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| | Hosea, Book of -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | the first of 12 books of the Bible named after minor prophets, also called The Twelve; in Judaism the 12 are considered one book; written by Hosea, a Jewish prophet during the reign of Jeroboam II (786–746 |
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| | Jamieson, Faussett and Brown Bible Commentary |
| | Jonah the prophet had promised success to Jeroboam II from God, not for the king's merit, but from God's mercy to Israel; so the coast of Israel was restored by Jeroboam II from the entering of Hamath to the sea of the plain (2Ki 14:23-27). | | | Lo-Ammi ("not my people"), the third child, a son, represents the vigorous dynasty (2Ki 14:25) of Jeroboam II; but, as prosperity did not bring with it revived piety, they were still not God's people. | | | As Israel was most flourishing externally under Jeroboam II, who recovered the possessions seized on by Syria, Hosea's prophecy of its downfall at that time was the more striking as it could not have been foreseen by mere human sagacity. |
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| | King Jeroboam II - Biography |
| | God's Judgment Regarding King Jeroboam II Jeroboam II, son and successor of King Joash of Israel, reigned 41 years, and continued the evil legacy of his namesake, the first King Jeroboam. | | | , however, not yet willing to completely give up on Israel, helped Jeroboam. | | | This was fulfilled when, just after Jeroboam's death, his son King Zachariah was murdered and his throne usurped. |
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| | God's Judgment Regarding King Jeroboam II |
| | 2 Kings 14:23-24 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and reigned forty and one years. | | | God's Judgment Regarding King Jeroboam II God's Judgment Regarding King Jeroboam II Chart of the Kings | | | : he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Captivities of the Israelites |
| | Jeroboam, covered the whole northern and north-eastern part of the realm of David which constituted the bulk of the land of the Hebrews. | | | Lagrange, according to whom the mission of Nehemias took place under the second Artaxerxes, fixes the Esdras migration as late as 355, a little more than a century after the prevalent date. | | | In fact the Israel of Jeroboam II was at the summit of its prosperity. |
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| | What tribe followed Rehoboam and who followed Jeroboam in the divided kingdom? | | | What did Jeroboam tell his wife to do? | | | What demonstration did the prophet Ahijah do for Jeroboam, Solomon's servant? |
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| | Table I of Bible Chronology |
| | Jeroboam I reigns over Israel for 22 years | | | Joram is slain by Jehu who reigns 28 years | | | For an explination of this chart, please see the Web Page The Bible Chronology from Solomon to Hezekiah PART I. The Divided Kingdom |
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| | Jeroboam II |
| | While that last of the major prophets had passed with Elisha, still the lesser prophets, Amos and Hosea, inveighed against his "evil before the Lord." While Jeroboam II left Israel at it’s peak of prosperity in centuries, his son Zachariah had to deal with a re-emerging Assyria. | | | continued in the way of his namesake Jeroboam I, and worshipped the calf idols so abhorrent to the prophets. | | | Joash II had returned most of the cities of Israel back to the fold, and Jeroboam II continued the expansion from Syria in the north, to the Gulf of Aqabah in the south. |
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| | Shoshenk's campaign against Israel places him contemporary with the Israelite king Jeroboam II, and with the Judean king Uzziah. | | | This event could explain why there was an interregnum in Israel during the reign of Uzziah. | | | Aligning the reign of Shoshenk I with that of Jeroboam II is accomplished with the aid of a Phoenician dedication text appearing on the statue of Pharaoh Osorkon I, which King Elibaal of Byblos had made for the goddess Baalat-Gebel. |
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| | Background of Jonah |
| | onah lived during the reign of Jeroboam II. | | | First Elisha went before the king of Israel and informed him that he would achieve future victories over Damascus. | | | During Jeroboam's reign he recaptured much of the territory taken by Hazael king of Syria 2 Kings 8:12 according to Jonah's prophecy found in 2 Kings 14:25. |
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| | Bible Dictionary: Jeroboam II (king of Israel, 786–746BC) |
| | Bible Dictionary: Jeroboam II (king of Israel, 786–746BC) | | | This page is part of the Postmodern Bible - Amos commentary, if you have reached it as a standalone page, to view it in context, go to www.bible.gen.nz | | | Like Uzziah, his near contemporary, Jeroboam II enjoyed a long and prosperous reign. |
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http://www.bible.gen.nz/amos/people/jerobo2.htm
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