The Sin of Jeroboam
(Part 1) Read Exod 32:1-6; 1 Kgs 12:25-30, and take notes on the similarities
and significance between the original sin of Israel and the original sin of the
northern kingdom of Israel under Jeroboam. Read 1 Kgs 12-22; and 2 Kgs 1-16, taking notes
on every time the sin of a northern Israelite king is compared to the sin of
Jeroboam. How many of the
northern Israelite kings are compared to Jeroboam? What is the point of this
repetition? Read 2 Kgs 17 a couple of times taking notes on the explanation for
the fall of the northern kingdom of Israel.
(Part 2) Indentify and explain the significance of
the relationship between the sin of Israel at mount Sinai and the sin
of
Jeroboam. How does the sin of Jeroboam work itself out in the northern
kingdom (see part 1)?
(Part 3) Why, according to the storymakers of the
book of Kings, did
the northern kingdom of Israel fall? What are the implications of the
interpretation of the fall of Israel by the Kings storymakers, for the
southern
kingdom of Judah? And, for Christians?
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