1Ki 11:26-43  “Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee”

[Study Aired March 24, 2022]

1Ki 11:26 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon’s servant, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up his hand against the king. 
1Ki 11:27  And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father. 
1Ki 11:28  And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour: and Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph. 
1Ki 11:29  And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field: 
1Ki 11:30  And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces: 
1Ki 11:31  And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee: 
1Ki 11:32  (But he shall have one tribe for my servant David’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel) 
1Ki 11:33  Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father. 
1Ki 11:34  Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant’s sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes: 
1Ki 11:35  But I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes. 
1Ki 11:36  And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there. 
1Ki 11:37  And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel. 
1Ki 11:38  And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee. 
1Ki 11:39  And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever. 
1Ki 11:40  Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon. 
1Ki 11:41  And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon? 
1Ki 11:42  And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years. 
1Ki 11:43  And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead. 

The word of God is a word of addition, meaning God’s plan has never gone backward but always moved forward in the prescribed manner God ordained from the foundation of the world (Eph 1:11). When God takes away and separates and divides something, it is still adding to our understanding as the body of Christ of how the marred vessel in the Potter’s hand is being made anew (Jer 18:4, Rom 7:20-21, Jas 4:12). Such is the case with the type and shadow events of the nation of Israel that were recorded for the elect (1Co 10:11) to show us how God brought about the circumstances of that culture and those kingdoms and kings and peoples associated with them for our sakes (2Co 4:15).

The dividing of the nation of Israel was to teach His elect children eternal principles that are being added in our heavens as we “grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever. Amen” (2Pe 3:18).  That grace, as we discussed last week, is the central part of the elect’s life that are at this present time “a remnant according to the election of grace” with whom God is working through the faith of Christ as our heavens are sanctified by God’s word (Joh 17:17), and made anew via an altar that the world cannot partake of at this time (Heb 13:10).

We access this altar through Christ through whom we are accepted (Eph 1:6), and the divided kingdoms of our old man are being destroyed and made anew through Him as twain becomes one (Eph 2:14). All of that destruction and renewing process and all the things outside ourselves is adding to our understanding of how “all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose (Rom 11:5, Rom 8:28). All things therefore are working according to the counsel of His own will, and the one caveat for God’s elect as opposed to the world around us is this: “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren” (Rom 8:29).

God does what he wants with the marred clay vessel (Rom 9:21) and has been fulfilling His will through Christ, the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end, of that process of addition of recognizing that all things are ‘yes’ in him (2Co 1:20) and leading to the salvation of all of His creation (1Co 15:22, 1Jn 2:2, 1Ti 4:10) that live and move and have their being in Christ (Act 17:28). Beginning at Pentecost, there was a remnant that would begin to understand that all things are ours, “Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s” (1Co 3:22-23). The realization of who we are in Christ as one body was preceded by ‘the man of perdition’ being revealed within us (2Th 2:3) which brought us to see that the kingdoms of our world within, represented by Israel, needed to fall away and be divided and brought into captivity before God would begin to deliver us from that bondage and create a new creature, a new Israel of God which has one head and one body that operate in harmony (Gal 6:16, Eph 4:4, 1Co 12:12).

Gal 6:16  And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God. 

Eph 4:4  There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; 

1Co 12:12  For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

In this study we will look at the earth-shattering event of seeing the nation of Israel become divided, and look at how it is possible that God rending “the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon…and will give ten tribes to [Jeroboam]”, can be seen as a positive event for the body of Christ who are called out of darkness and into the glorious light of the true gospel of Jesus Christ (1Pe 2:9-11). These types and shadow events are for our sakes, and they do point to a hope-filled message of overcoming, through the suffering of this life, through the captivity that we’re brought into by the same Creator who caused these events and will deliver us out of them in His perfect timing.

1Pe 2:9  But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
1Pe 2:10  Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. 
1Pe 2:11  Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; 

1Ki 11:26 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon’s servant, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up his hand against the king. 

1Ki 11:27  And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father. 

In the previous verses we looked at how the nation of Israel got into this mess in the first place through Solomon who did not “abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul” going after “many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites”, all symbolic actions of our time in Babylon out of which we are now called (2Co 6:17). Jeroboam was the instrument in God’s hand that was used to rend the kingdom from Solomon, bringing upon him what he was meant to reap for all those years of going after strange women and their gods and pagan practices (Gal 6:7-9).

Gal 6:7  Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 
Gal 6:8  For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. 
Gal 6:9  And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. 

His hand was lifted up “against the king” specifically because Solomon “built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David his father” which obviously did not play into Jeroboam’s industrious life that would have benefitted from those breaches. We’re not told exactly why this upset Jeroboam so much, but we can speculate that it had to do with commerce and how that would have been restricted with other nations around them due to these city walls being repaired. Jeroboam was very ambitious, and God used him to come up against Solomon who had no idea how this once servant of his was going to be used to seek an occasion against the kingdom of Israel, which at that point consisted of the northern and southern tribes. Jeroboam was the sword in God’s hand who was going to be used to tear the nation of Israel apart (Psa 17:14). Jeroboam was no better than Solomon, and perhaps worse than Solomon at the end of the story, but this did not prevent God from using this man to accomplish His will for Israel.

Psa 17:13 Arise, O I was, I am, I will be, go before his face and bow him down! Deliver my soul from the wicked, by Your sword, 

God is not a respecter of persons, and Solomon’s forty-year reign was coming to a close, and the stage was being set for the captivity of both the soon-to-be-divided northern and southern kingdoms of Israel. Jeroboam whose name means “the people will contend” was “the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon‘s servant, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow woman“. These names tell us something about the foundation of Jeroboam’s life which made him the ideal candidate, not only to bring about the rending of the kingdom of Israel out of Solomon’s hand, but also see him becoming the new king of the northern kingdom of Israel. The people were going to contend and Jeroboam was going to be the principal character who would behold and uphold that contention and become the beneficiary of the fruitfulness of that division of the nation of Israel. It would be brought about from a man who would prove to be a leprous, self-righteous hypocrite who was just seeking advantage in his life, exactly as God had intended him to do for the destruction of the nation of Israel which was going to be severely punished for its idolatrous ways that started with Solomon and became even more magnified with Jeroboam.

1Ki 11:26 and (the people will contend) the son of (beheld), an (fruitfulness) of (the adversary rules, great peace‘s) servant, whose mother’s name was (leprous), a widow woman, even he lifted up his hand against the king. (PNB-kjv) 

1Ki 11:28  And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour: and Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph. 

This recognition from Solomon of Jeroboam being “a mighty man of valour” who was just starting off as a “young man” was something with which Solomon obviously could identify in himself with all of his many wonderful works he had accomplished in the earth throughout his life. So, it was not surprising that in his senior years he would be looking for a protegé like Jeroboam to rule “over all the charge of the house of Joseph“. What he didn’t know was he was hiring the fox to take care of the chicken house so to speak, and this was all of the Lord to eventually bring about the end of Solomon’s kingdom that was prophesied to be divided and conquered. This is a prophecy written for God’s elect (1Co 10:11) that tells us what has to happen to the man of perdition within us, represented by Solomon. Yet in the midst of these horrific events there was always the glimmer of hope being prophesied for God’s people stated this way via these words that typify those who would be granted to be the first fruits of God’s creation: “But he shall have one tribe for my servant David’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel” (1Ki 11:32).

1Ki 11:29  And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field: 
1Ki 11:30  And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces: 
1Ki 11:31  And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee: 
1Ki 11:32  (But he shall have one tribe for my servant David’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel) 

That “new garment” on Jeroboam represents the whole nation of Israel, or all the world in type and shadow. To make this point clear, we’re told Jeroboam is going away from Jerusalem when “the prophet Ahijah^H281 the Shilonite^H7888 found him in the way” and “they two were alone in the field” which represents the world (Mat 13:38). So, the two of them are about to witness something together that was ordained of God via “the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite” in order to show all mankind in time who the true ‘worshippers’ of ‘Shiloh’ were.  This unfolding event was for the good of all of mankind in time. This prophecy represents how all the world represented by Solomon’s kingdom must be rent into two major parts, one being Judah and the other being Israel. These two parts which symbolize Oholah and Oholibah within us must be divided and each brought into captivity in order to be judged by God for all of our spiritual infidelity in this life. The lost twelve tribes of Israel which we go after is the predestinated first fruit remnant who know they are sick and lost and in need of a physician (Mar 2:17). They are fished out of the midst of all the world, and so the gospel is preached to all of God’s creation, all of Israel, but He only drags and converts those who are predestined to be saved in this age (Col 1:28-29, Joh 6:44, Mat 15:24, Mat 4:19). The garment being rent is just another way of saying the vessel of clay that was made in the hand of the potter was marred, but the twain are going to become new and will be one new cloth just as the vessel of clay will be made anew as well, each man in his order (Jer 18:4).

Col 1:28  Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: 
Col 1:29  Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

Joh 6:44  No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. 

Mat 15:24  But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 

Mat 4:19  And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.  

Jer 18:4  And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

The twelve nations represent the foundational strength of mankind that must be broken by God’s judgments upon it, so God gives the fleshly ten kingdoms to Jeroboam [Oholah], represented by the divided garment and the other part that represents our religious man of sin, or [Oholibah] is also divided and judged and if not “for my servant David’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel” there could have been no salvation possible. Salvation is of the spiritual Jews is what Christ told the woman in Samaria who was inquiring of who the true worshippers were, and this dividing of Solomon’s kingdom is symbolic of what must happen to each of us who are being judged in this life (1Pe 4:17). It is through that judgment upon Israel and Judah within us that twain can become one (Eph 2:14, Mar 10:8) and that can only be accomplished through Christ who is symbolized by king David  “for my servant David’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel“. The new garments we are given after the first one is ripped into twelve pieces is represented by the garment for which the soldiers cast lots and that was not torn apart showing us that Christ is not divided (Mat 27:35, Joh 19:23-24).

Joh 4:19  The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. 
Joh 4:20  Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. 
Joh 4:21  Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. 
Joh 4:22  Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. 
Joh 4:23  But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 
Joh 4:24  God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. 

Rom 2:28  For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: 
Rom 2:29  But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. 

Mat 27:35  And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots.

Joh 19:23  Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. 
Joh 19:24  They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did. 

H170
אָהֳלָהּ    אָהֳלָה
‘ohŏlâh    ‘ohŏlâhh
o-hol-aw’, o-hol-aw’
The first form is in form a feminine of H168, but is in fact for the second form; from H168; her tent (that is, idolatrous sanctuary); Oholah, a symbolic name for Samaria: – Aholah.

H172
אָהֳלִיבָהּ    אָהֳלִיבָה
‘ohŏlı̂ybâh    ‘ohŏlı̂ybâhh
o”-hol-ee-baw’, o”-hol-e-baw’
(As with H170 the first form is in form a feminine of H168, but is in fact for the second form); from H168; my tent (is) in her; Oholibah, a symbolic name for Judah: – Aholibah.

1Ki 11:33  Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father. 
1Ki 11:34  Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant’s sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes: 
1Ki 11:35  But I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes. 
1Ki 11:36  And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.

There is a beautiful redundancy in God’s word which reassures us that when God promises something from the foundation of the world we can be sure that those promises are going to stand that are being shown “unto the heirs of promise” (Heb 6:17-20). It takes only the “one tribe” that is given of God for the world to have the light of Christ in it, and of course that light is Christ in us, our hope of glory (Col 1:27) symbolized by these words: “that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.” It is that light of Christ within us that exposes all the false doctrines within us, all the false worship of “Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon.“

Heb 6:17  Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: 
Heb 6:18  That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: 
Heb 6:19  Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; 
Heb 6:20  Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. 

1Ki 11:37  And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel. 
1Ki 11:38  And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee. 
1Ki 11:39  And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever. 

The handwriting is on the wall for our flesh when God says “And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did“, the lesson being that without the second part being fulfilled within us, “as David my servant did“, there is no way to build the sure house. Rather it is because of this certain failure of Jeroboam and the soon-to-be-taken-into-captivity nation of Israel that God finishes off by saying what He says because He knows what Jeroboam is going to do: “I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.“

It sounds so promising when God says, “I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.” The only problem with this is that “all that thy soul” naturally “desireth” is not of God but of the world which is what would be borne out in time in the life of Jeroboam (1Jn 2:15-17).

1Jn 2:15  Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 
1Jn 2:16  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 
1Jn 2:17  And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. 

1Ki 11:40  Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon. 

Because of these prophecies of “the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite“, Solomon “sought therefore to kill Jeroboam“. Because of this desire of Solomon to kill him, Jeroboam “fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.” It takes the death of the man of sin, represented by Solomon, for us to come out of Egypt which typifies Babylon where we spend time with “Shishak king of Egypt” who represents the devil.

1Ki 11:41  And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon? 
1Ki 11:42  And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years. 

Solomon “reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel…forty years” just as David reigned for forty years, and the question is asked, “The acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?” This question is to remind us that Solomon’s wisdom represents the wisdom of man that is not the power of God and cannot inherit the kingdom of God (1Co 2:4-5). On the other hand, David also reigned for forty years and his life symbolizes the book of life written in the life of God’s elect (Rev 20:12).

Rev 20:12  And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 

Solomon’s knowledge is written in a book called “the acts of Solomon” which was a book that witnessed to the many wonderful works of Solomon in his flesh (1Co 2:4-5).  As Christ increases and we decrease, we in turn no longer know each other after the flesh, or Christ after the flesh, but rather we see that new creation revealed by the fruits of the spirit and the old works as having passed (2Co 5:17). The blessing that is ours is to be many members and one body that is made up of all these different books that are in Christ, who is the book of life (Rev 20:12). The new creation or new book is formed through a lifetime of much tribulation (Act 14:22) as we endure until the end through Christ (Mat 24:13, Php 4:13) being saved now day by day, moment by moment, by grace through faith “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God” (Eph 2:8).

1Co 2:4  And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: 
1Co 2:5  That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. 

2Co 5:17  Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 

Act 14:22  Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God. 

2Co 5:16  Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. 
2Co 5:17  Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 
2Co 5:18  And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 

1Ki 11:43 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.

This last verse reminds us that the dead must bury the dead and sleep with their fathers (Luk 9:60). Solomon was buried “in the city of David his father“, Jerusalem below, which is in the earth.

Luk 9:60  Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.

God’s elect’s rest is a spiritual rest that is now in Christ whose death we are baptized into as we are raised in heavenly places, namely Jerusalem above, the mother of us all (Rom 6:1-3, Gal 4:26).

Rom 6:1  What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 
Rom 6:2  God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Rom 6:3  Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

Gal 4:26  But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. 

The fruit of Solomon’s loins is going to be a divisive self-serving king who will live to see the nation of Israel divided. “Rehoboam” will reign in Solomon’s stead and will live to see the prophecy fulfilled of how God will “rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee” [Jeroboam].

Solomon, like all of us, must reap what he sows, and upon his death the chance for a new start and a new king, who was not going to be an idolatrous one, arose. However, just like the house that was swept and cleansed with Solomon’s departure, seven spirits worse came back into the house of God by the name of “Rehoboam^H7346.

Mat 12:43  When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
Mat 12:44  Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
Mat 12:45  Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.

These things were truly written for our sake upon whom the end of the world has come (1Co 10:11). There is much more tribulation to come for the nation of Israel with a king who will rule with no less rigor than the Pharaoh during Moses’ time (1Ki 12:11, Exo 5:7). All of this is leading to the captivity of the soon-to-be-divided nation, and yet with all these tragic events, we know that God has already declared in type and shadow the vessel of honor in the life of king David, who typifies Christ who will redeem all of mankind in time.

1Co 10:11  Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. 

1Ki 12:11  And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions. 

Exo 5:7  Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.