For the LORD will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River,† because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the LORD to anger.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Kings 14:15 in context
1 Kings 14:12–18
12
Arise therefore, and go to your house. When your feet enter into the city, the child will die.
13
All Israel will mourn for him and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam will come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the LORD, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.
14
Moreover the LORD will raise up a king for himself over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is the day! What? Even now.
15
Selected verse
For the LORD will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River,† because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the LORD to anger.
16
He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin.”
17
Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed, and came to Tirzah. As she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.
18
All Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to the LORD’s word, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.
Source notes
Notes from World English Bible Updated
- That is, the Euphrates.
Continue with 1 Kings 14
Read the complete chapter in World English Bible Updated.
Open 1 Kings 14