August 19, 2025 • 33 mins
"# 216 - Israel Divided - In this episode of The Chosen People with Yael Eckstein, Fear split the kingdom—and two kings rose where one should have been. In this episode, discover how insecurity, pride, and misplaced trust led Israel into idolatry and division, and why only surrender to God can make a nation whole again.
Episode 216 of The Chosen People with Yael Eckstein is inspired by the Book of Joshua.
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Today's opening prayer is inspired by Proverbs 12:20, Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
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Show Notes:
(01:41) Intro with Yael Eckstein
(02:50) Israel Divided
(25:49) Reflection with Yael Eckstein"
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Previously on the Chosen people. Solomon left a gleaming empire behind,
but for all its glamour, it teetered on the brink
of chaos and war. The children of Israel were crushed
under the weight of taxes and conscripted labor. As a result,
they had little faith left in their rulers.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Your majesty, we have come before you, not as rebels,
but as your loyal subjects. We have built your father cities,
harvested his fields, paid his tribute. But as yop was
heavy upon us, you.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Don't truly think that people would turn against the House
of David, do you.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
My great grandfather united us, and my grandfather made us
all rich.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
The people won't forget that.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
What portion do we have in David? We have no
inheritance in the son of Jesse. Israel, return to your tents.
The sons of David can look after their own.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
How we were slaves once real long never.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Again there was stillness for another fraught heartbeat, and then chaos.
The northerners at the far end of the hall exploded
with fury and sprang forward past the tribal leaders and
toward the royal family and advisors. But they were swiftly
driven back by Rio Boham's guard. Rio Boham stumbled, but
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was shoved toward the chariot. The kingdom his father built
was tearing itself apart, or rather, it was being torn
from him.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Two kings stood where one God should have been. Shello,
my friends, from here in the holy land of Israel.
I'my l extein with international fellowship of Christians and Jews,
and welcome to the Chosen People. In today's episode, drawn
from One King's twelve twenty to thirty three and two
Chronicles eleven, we find ourselves in the rubble of what
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once was unity. The sons of Israel, once gathered as
one under David, are now divided. And the question that
hovers over it all is this, how does a nation
lose itself? What happens when fear guides leadership, when insecurity
dresses up as strength, When men who are once brothers
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become enemies. Previously I'm the Chosen People, we witness the
rise of Solomon's son, Rehoboam and his stunning failure to
keep the tribes unified. Now Jeroboam seize his opportunity from
the fracture, and two kings stand where there should have
been just one, and today we begin to see the
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cost of that split.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Jeroboam had won, the House of David had lost, miles
away from the gleaning capital of Jerusalem. In the north,
a modest coronation had taken place. The victorious Northerners gathered
in their burned hall of Shechem, anointing Jeroboam as king.
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Despite the charred stone wars of the recent fire, raucus,
cheers reverberated, joyously, rising from the ashes of their rebellion.
The northern tribes cast off the yoke of Solomon's line,
rallying around their chosen king. But the cost was high.
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Brothers had spilled each other's blood for the first time
since David had united them. Israel was fractured. Jerobone stood
atop a sooty, rough hewn stone platform in the destroyed hall.
He looked out at the expectant faces, hungry for inspiration,
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ready to be led into a glorious future as a
liberated people. He had fought to be worthy of this moment.
He rose for nothing, And yet Jeroboa exhaled slowly, his
fingers clenching at his sides. He had won but had
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he the throne of the northern kingdom's was his? Yet
his kingdom was built on ashes and betrayal. Was this
what a prophecy fulfilled looked like?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I have taken the throne. Now I must.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Keep it to the side of his platform In the
dilapidated hall, his wife Elisheba stood with their young sons.
Abija the elder watched his father with admiration. Beside him,
Nadab clutched the hem of his mother's robe, his young
eyes wide with unease. Jeroboa fixed a confident smile to
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his face, stepped forward, his voice steady and commanding, and
address the.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Crowd, people of Israel. You have thrown off the heavy
yoke of the House of David. Today we stand as
a free nation, no longer subject to the tribe of Judah.
Let the House of David and the tribe of Judah
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sit in their palaces and.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Look after themselves. For what portion do we have in David?
We have no inheritance. In the sun of Jesse.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
We will arise and build ourselves into an even greater nation.
Let Judah and Benjamin in the south fall away and
look after their own house.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Let the twelve be con ten. We are Ruben, Simeon, Levi.
Speaker 7 (05:59):
Dan Left Tally, God, Assir, Isakhar, Zabelon, and the sons
of Joseph, Evraim and Manessa. We are strong, strong without Benjamin,
strong without Judah.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
We are the Kingdom of Israel.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
The resounding chia rose from the assembly, but Jeroboah me
well enough cheers today did not guarantee loyalty tomorrow. As
the crowd started to disperse to the center of town
to celebrate their new found independence, his shrewd eyes scanned
the fringes of the crowd until he found him Abbieu,
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an old priest from Shiloh, situated at the edge of
the crowd. Jeroboah moved with the throng of people, shaking
hands and clapping arms until he finally made his way
to the stooped priest on the edge. He then bent
down so as to be high leveled with Abio. Jeroboam's
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voice dropped so only the priest could hear him.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Abiel, I'm honored that you would be here at my coronation.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Really, I must admit I'm surprised to hear that your Highness.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Though not from the prominent line of high priests now
situated in Jerusalem. Abio was still an influential priest in
the lesser spiritual circles of the north Shiloh, Bethel and Shechem,
and he knew the prophet a Hyjah. Well, Jeroboam knew
the priest would be essential in securing his hold on
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the northern tribes.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Oh yes, and I'm sure you're familiar with the prophecy
given about me by the Prophet Hyjah.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Oh, of course, your highness, everyone in Israel knows about that.
The northerners have talked of nothing else these last few years.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Oh well, I only meant to say that that a
Hyja mentioned mentioned you. Really, I have long considered you
from my council, Ebiel, and now that I'm king, I
would I would be honored to have you at my side.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
The old man seemed caught off guard to have risen
to the attention of the new king, but Jeroboam noticed
with satisfaction that a flush of pride came over him.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Why, of course, it would be an honor to advise you, my.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
King, wonder wonderful. Now come, let me introduce you to
my wife and my two sons, Abaijah and a DApp
the future of Israel.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Jeroboam charismatically through an arm around the old priest and
steered him over to his waiting family and the other
influential men he had collected for his inner circle. Jeroboam
had no royal blood, no claim, but the one he seized.
Rioboam had power handed to him while Jeroboam had earned it.
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He prided himself on the difference. Where Rio Bouam's fragile
ego made him reckless, Jeroboam harnessed the wisdom of others,
shaping it into something he could wield. But even in
this triumph, a seed of fear had taken root in
Jeroboam's heart. He had taken the kingdom, but a question
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kept gnawing at the back of his mind. How long
could he hold it. He could charm, then, win alliances,
and shape his kingdom, but there was one thing he
could never change. The heart of Israel still beat in Jerusalem,
and as long as the temple stood, his throne would
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never be secure. In the south, in the Palace of Jerusalem,
Rioboam licked his wounds from his humiliating ousting from his
would be coronation. In the north, he stormed through the corridors,
his fury masking the utter embarrassment of it. All his
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royal guard were stoned and burned alive while he fled
with his weeping mother, his hands still trembled at the thought,
barely containing his fury. He was still king technically speaking.
But there wasn't a merchant, nobleman, or farmer who hadn't
heard of what happened. There was no getting around it.
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He had fled from Shechem, fled from his own people.
What he did next was critical to regain the control
he had lost. He stormed into the audience chamber, still
fuming about how he was humiliated. His inner circle was
waiting for him. Nayamar his mother, Maha, his favorite wife,
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and Abijan along with his group of young instigators.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
They think they can defy me, that they can cast
me aside like some commoner. And have you heard false
skin Jeobom, that's your surber saying that they alone in
the north are Israel. We are only Judah. Can you
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believe that.
Speaker 9 (11:26):
They have made a mistake, my love, a mistake you
will correct. Israel is not Israel without Judah to meet them.
Everyone knows that.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
His wife practically purred her words of comfort, as his
mother slammed the table with her fist.
Speaker 10 (11:45):
Your father built this kingdom with his bare hats. He
made Jerusalem the finest city in the world. We will
not be able to shame in our own kingdom.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
You will reclaim it. We should go to war father
who speaks that as it's a lesson at the kingdom. Yes, unlesson.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Rear Boham turned to his last loyal general, Beniah, the
old warrior who had once fought beside David himself.
Speaker 8 (12:15):
Raise the army, rouse our allies. Surely the tribe of
Benjamin will stand with us. Jerusalem is their territory. After all,
we march at dawn.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
My king, Are you sure this is not just a battle,
This would be a civil war. Rear Boham's pride flared heart.
It blinded him to the severity of Beniah's warning.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
I will not be the king who loses the house
of David's kingdom.
Speaker 10 (12:48):
Yes, we'll destroy all the disloyal tribal with him, and
off the pleas families, loyal families all in their face.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I'm sure the trait is no mercy.
Speaker 10 (12:59):
White them off the face of the earth.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
The young nobles hung on every word and pounded the
table and enthusiastic support. His son Abijan had a certainty
and confidence to him that Ria Boham envied. The two
women eyed him with maternal admiration. They shaped him into
the young leader that he was. But the old general frowned,
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disapproval flashing and then quickly disappearing on his disciplined face.
Rio Boham saw it flare up, even though his own
fury bent on revenge. The look was sobering. Even in
Rio Boham's murderous rage, Doubt twinged in his gut, casting
a shadow of uncertainty over their plans. I will meet
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with my resents and see about raising the force.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
With their eyes.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Ria Boham tamped down the flicker of doubt. He turned
back to his advisers, but his gaze lingered on on Abijam,
his son, so young, so sure. There was no hesitation
in his words, no fear, no doubt. Was this what
a true king looked like? Ria Boam swallowed hard, clenching
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his fists. If he had to carve his name into
history with blood, so be it. Let the North.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Burn, Let the whole kingdom burn. Means say, fear me again.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
While rio Boam sharpened his swords for war. Up in
the north, Jeroboam paced the stone floors of his newly
built palace in Shechem. It was plain, almost austere, nothing
like the grandeur of Jerusalem. But power was not in
the walls. Power was in control, and if Jeroboam was
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to keep his throne, he needed more than soldiers. He
needed loyalty. He needed time, time to fortify, to build,
to make the people forget the house of David. Abiel,
the priest stood across from him, his brow furrowed. He
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had lingered after the council meeting had concluded to express
his concern about the rising number of advisers and priests
of other gods. To Jeroboam's annoyance, it was becoming a
bit of a pattern.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yes, yes, yes, I heard you the first time. But
tell me this what happens when they long for the temple,
when their hearts turned toward Jerusalem.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Then let them go to worship as the Lord commanded.
You were chosen, my king, appointed by the prophet Ahijah,
by the will of the Lord. He will keep your
throne secure.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Jeroboams, stiffened, faith alone had not put him here it
had been strategy, persuasion, and an understanding of the people's grievances.
He would not let faith be his undoing. Jeroboham turned
his back on the priest, a shadow crossing his face.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
We must give them something else.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Is this why you've been entertaining the counsel of these
pagan priests?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
You should know better.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Don't you know your history? And did not the prophet
Ahijah warn you of what would happen if you turn
from the Lord. You flirt with disaster?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
My king, the prophet told me I would be king,
and I am. I may not have been brought up
with tutors, but I know enough of our history. Can
you sound like my youngest son and adapt, always worrying
and fretting like a little desert mouse clinging to my
wife's hem.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Visibly exasperated, the old priest sighed and tried a softer approach.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
You have what you wanted, Jeroboam, Do not turn from
the Lord now. After all this.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
If the people must visit Jerusalem to worship, then it's
more and more opportunity for Rehaboum to entice them with
wealth and false promises. The temple is a threat we
need one here.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
My king.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
I beg you trust the Lord to uphold what he
has given.
Speaker 9 (17:22):
You.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Do not repeat Solomon's folly.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
The Jeroboam's mind was made up.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
No, we will build our own altars, our own places
of worship.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Abel's breath hedged.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
But the ark of the covenant is in Jerusalem. Who
will you build these places of worship.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
To the King? Does not beg for loyalty, He shapes it.
If they long for the temple, I will give them
something to bow before.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
The silence between them was deafening. Abel's body tenenced in fear,
but Jeroboam's lips curved into a slow smile. By the
time he was finished, they would no longer look to Jerusalem.
They would kneel here in the kingdom he built for them.
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Back in the south, in Jerusalem, rio Boam's forces stood ready,
banners unfurled, war drums pounding. His army was prepared to
march north, reclaiming what had been stolen from him. Then
the prophet arrived, a lone figure in the vast corridors
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of the palace. His name was Shamiah. The name alone
was a thunderclap in the hall. A prophet of the Lord.
Ria Boam stiffened in his seat. As the man entered
the rooms, stilled attention deeper than battle weighed upon them.
Now his general rules, his young nobles, even his own family.
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Each of them felt it. Shemaiah's robes were simple, but
the authority in his presence was like iron. He did
not kneel, he did not bow. He raised a hand,
his voice booming with divine finality.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
You shall not go up and fight against your brothers.
This division is from the Lord.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
The words sliced through the room like a blade. Beniah,
the old warrior, exhaled sharply, his shoulders slumping as though
he had just been released from death itself. His relief
was palpable. My king, we can have to fight the
Lord's decree. But even as the general spoke, there was
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a ripple of unease. The young nobles shifted, glancing at
one another, their expressions darkening. Rhea Boem's jaw clenched. He
could feel their eyes on him, the weight of their expectations. Abijan,
his son, was the first to speak, his voice sharp
and unyielding.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
The Lord's degree.
Speaker 10 (20:17):
The Lord's degree is that my father should be key
over all Israel, as is our right, as the house
of David.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
There were murmurs of agreement to that. The nobles stirred,
their loyalty, fueled by fury, by ambition, by the intoxicating
hunger for power. Macha touched Ria Boham's arm gently, her
voice smooth, coaxing.
Speaker 9 (20:43):
The prophet is wrong, my love. The Lord does not
divide his people. Would he truly let rebels steal what
is yours, what was David's?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
But then his mother Neamar spoke. She stood judas stone,
her dark eyes locked onto Shemaiah with something close to contempt.
Speaker 10 (21:07):
The throne of Israel is yours, my son. Will you
surrender it without even a fight. We have been praying
to Milcom day and night, readying for war. Don't throw
away his favor like this.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
The room was turning, voices rising. The young nobles pounded
the table.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
We should go to war.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Let us take back what is ours.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Ria Boham's fingers dug into the arms of his throne.
He wanted to believe them, needed to believe them. And
yet the prophet's gaze was unwavering, unshaken. His father's god,
the god who had spoken to Solomon, the god who
had made David's throne unshakable. A chill coiled around Ria
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Boham's spine. His vision blurred with rage, But deep inside,
beneath his pride was something else, fear. His voice, when
it came, was tight, reluctant, almost strangled.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
Withdraw the troops.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
The words fell like a hammer into the silence. The
nobles stiffened. Abijam's nostrils flared, his fists tight with fury.
A murmur rippled through the ranks, but none dared disobey.
The war was over before it began, And as Riar
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Boam sat there, his father's throne beneath him, but a
divided kingdom beyond him, he knew one thing with certainty.
They would not forget this moment, and neither would he.
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In Jerusalem, Riar Boam sat in his own room, stewing
over his failure. He had lost the north, lost his people,
and now, with no war to fight, he turned inward
to his father's wealth, his father's women, his father's indulgences.
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The nation was fractured, and two distinct identities emerged, Israel
to the north and Judah to the south. The kingdom
David had fought to unite, was divided. What Solomon had
built was torn apart by his son. But even as
Riar Boham drowned in self pity in the north, Jeroboam
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was sealing his own fate. In the ancient, storied city
of Bethel, torches flickered against the night sky. The scent
of burning incense clung to the air, mingling with the
hummer voices. Before the gathered priests and tribal leaders, Jerobol
Poems stood tall and commanding. He raised his arms, his
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voice ringing bold with the certainty of his decision.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Behold your gods, o Israel, here are the gods who
brought you out of Egypt.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
A hush fell over the crowd. For a moment, silence
held its breath. Then shock waves rippled through the assembly.
Some cheered, desperate for a kingdom fully severed from Jerusalem's rule.
They raised their hands, bowed their heads, grateful for this
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new order Jeroboam had created. But others hesitated. The words
had been spoken once before, in a time of wilderness,
in a time of calves and golden idols and ruin.
At the edge of the gathering, Abiel felt his stomach twist.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
He really doesn't know our history. This is the golden calf.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Abiel had feared this. He had warned Jeroboam that power
alone could not hold a kingdom together. They needed the
guidance of their God, for the Lord's relationship with Israel
as what set them apart from the rest of the world.
And now before his eyes, the new king had crossed
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the line. The firelight cast grotesque shadows against the gleaming
golden calves.
Speaker 9 (25:29):
What have you done?
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Jeroboam did not look at him, He did not waver.
His decision had been made, and neither he nor Rear
Boham could see it yet, But their choices would lead
them both to ruin.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
What does fear do to people? Today's story shows us
the worst it can do, and it makes someone act
in the least godly way possible. But it didn't have
to be that way, chosen by God. Jeroboam had established
his kingdom in the north with the ten tribes, but
he was afraid, and he ruled in fear. What was
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he so afraid of? Well, Jeroboam was afraid of the
Israelites and his kingdom going to Jerusalem, especially for the
biblical festivals. But fearful of going to Jerusalem. That doesn't
make so much sense, does it. Why would he fear that? Well,
Jeroboam worried that his people in the north would come
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in contact with the Temple in all of its glory
and with Rahoboam, the King of Judah. So Jeroboam had
no problem breaking multiple biblical laws just to keep his
people from visiting Jerusalem. To keep them from developing an
allegiance to Hobom, he set up two spiritual centers in
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the north and placed a golden calf, the very symbol
of idolatry and rebellion against Moses, in the desert. In
each of those spiritual centers, he even uttered the same
words as the people did as they danced around the
original golden calf in the desert. He said, this, here
are your gods, o Israel, who brought you up from
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the land of Egypt. Here we have it yet again,
someone whose ego and less for power blinded him to
the evil that he was perpetrating. But for Jerobom, his
actions brought the ultimate punishment, and that was exile from
the Holy Land. But I have a question, why did
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the people accept this shocking departure from the proper path. Well,
some of our sages suggests that the opulence and general
prosperity during Solomon's reign caused them to focus on material
matters a lot more than spiritual ones. They neglected the
study of the Torah. There's an important expression, who's meaning.
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The people ignored the land of Israel without the Torah
is like a body without a soul. Once they had
abandoned the Torah, the Bible we are studying right now,
they were taken by the shining gold of the golden
calves of Idolatry. As we've seen again and again, God
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is always open to a sinner's tshuva, to a sinner's repentance.
Even though God sent a prophet to admonish Droobom, he
still didn't repent. Jewish tradition gives Droboam the worst condemnation.
He's condemned as one who sins and causes others to sin.
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It's one thing to go off track yourself, but to
bring a whole community of ten tribes along with you.
Can you imagine anything worse than that? Yet again we
see the concept of sincere and pious leadership being so
important to the chosen people because we see where the
leader goes, so go those that they are leading. And
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at the end of today's story, Aijah the prophet delivers
a blistering prophecy to the Northern Kingdom in general and
to Drobam's family specifically. In short, both the Northern Kingdom
and Drobam's family would suffer complete and total destruction. This
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isn't comfortable for us to read or to hear, but
it points to had another truth that the Bible has
shown us over and over again, even if this truth
is pretty brutal. It's that our existence in the Holy
Land is dependent upon following God's laws and even more specifically,
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not descending into a idolatry. Our world today might not
be gripped like the days of the Bible were by
the temptation of idolatry, but we have plenty of other
temptations that draw us away from God, don't we, And
just as the Chosen people did in Bible times, we
look towards our spiritual leaders, our pastors, and our rabbis
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for guidance and to act as role models for us,
and we pray that, unlike the kings we met today,
that our leaders are worthy and that they help us
to be worthy in the eyes of God. There's something
heartbreaking and watching a people divided, because once we were
twelve sons, twelve tens, one camp in the wilderness, with
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one flame above us. But here in this episode it
all slips away. The sons of Jacob pull apart. It's
not exile, not yet, but it's the beginning of the
Chosen People's unraveling. Jeroboam thought a new altar would secure
his throne, but altars built on fear will always betray us.
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And Rahaboam thought war would prove that he was worthy,
but violence cannot restore what pride destroyed.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Maybe you're in.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
A season where something has been torn apart, a relationship,
a ministry, a dream that you built that's now scattered,
and maybe you're standing in that rubble, like Jeroboam or Roboam,
asking how do I hold this all together? My friends?
Let me tell you the strength to lead well does
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not come from controlling outcomes. It comes from listening, from stopping,
from surrendering your own expectations and trusting in God. So
let's be a people who listen to Him and lead
not by force but faith.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
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Previously on the Chosen people. Solomon left a gleaming empire behind,
but for all its glamour, it teetered on the brink
of chaos and war. The children of Israel were crushed
under the weight of taxes and conscripted labor. As a result,
they had little faith left in their rulers.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Your majesty, we have come before you, not as rebels,
but as your loyal subjects. We have built your father cities,
harvested his fields, paid his tribute. But as yop was
heavy upon us, you.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Don't truly think that people would turn against the House
of David, do you.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
My great grandfather united us, and my grandfather made us
all rich.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
The people won't forget that.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
What portion do we have in David? We have no
inheritance in the son of Jesse. Israel, return to your tents.
The sons of David can look after their own.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
How we were slaves once real long never.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Again there was stillness for another fraught heartbeat, and then chaos.
The northerners at the far end of the hall exploded
with fury and sprang forward past the tribal leaders and
toward the royal family and advisors. But they were swiftly
driven back by Rio Boham's guard. Rio Boham stumbled, but
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was shoved toward the chariot. The kingdom his father built
was tearing itself apart, or rather, it was being torn
from him.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Two kings stood where one God should have been. Shello,
my friends, from here in the holy land of Israel.
I'my l extein with international fellowship of Christians and Jews,
and welcome to the Chosen People. In today's episode, drawn
from One King's twelve twenty to thirty three and two
Chronicles eleven, we find ourselves in the rubble of what
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once was unity. The sons of Israel, once gathered as
one under David, are now divided. And the question that
hovers over it all is this, how does a nation
lose itself? What happens when fear guides leadership, when insecurity
dresses up as strength, When men who are once brothers
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become enemies. Previously I'm the Chosen People, we witness the
rise of Solomon's son, Rehoboam and his stunning failure to
keep the tribes unified. Now Jeroboam seize his opportunity from
the fracture, and two kings stand where there should have
been just one, and today we begin to see the
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cost of that split.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Jeroboam had won, the House of David had lost, miles
away from the gleaning capital of Jerusalem. In the north,
a modest coronation had taken place. The victorious Northerners gathered
in their burned hall of Shechem, anointing Jeroboam as king.
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Despite the charred stone wars of the recent fire, raucus,
cheers reverberated, joyously, rising from the ashes of their rebellion.
The northern tribes cast off the yoke of Solomon's line,
rallying around their chosen king. But the cost was high.
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Brothers had spilled each other's blood for the first time
since David had united them. Israel was fractured. Jerobone stood
atop a sooty, rough hewn stone platform in the destroyed hall.
He looked out at the expectant faces, hungry for inspiration,
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ready to be led into a glorious future as a
liberated people. He had fought to be worthy of this moment.
He rose for nothing, And yet Jeroboa exhaled slowly, his
fingers clenching at his sides. He had won but had
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he the throne of the northern kingdom's was his? Yet
his kingdom was built on ashes and betrayal. Was this
what a prophecy fulfilled looked like?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I have taken the throne. Now I must.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Keep it to the side of his platform In the
dilapidated hall, his wife Elisheba stood with their young sons.
Abija the elder watched his father with admiration. Beside him,
Nadab clutched the hem of his mother's robe, his young
eyes wide with unease. Jeroboa fixed a confident smile to
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his face, stepped forward, his voice steady and commanding, and
address the.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Crowd, people of Israel. You have thrown off the heavy
yoke of the House of David. Today we stand as
a free nation, no longer subject to the tribe of Judah.
Let the House of David and the tribe of Judah
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sit in their palaces and.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Look after themselves. For what portion do we have in David?
We have no inheritance. In the sun of Jesse.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
We will arise and build ourselves into an even greater nation.
Let Judah and Benjamin in the south fall away and
look after their own house.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Let the twelve be con ten. We are Ruben, Simeon, Levi.
Speaker 7 (05:59):
Dan Left Tally, God, Assir, Isakhar, Zabelon, and the sons
of Joseph, Evraim and Manessa. We are strong, strong without Benjamin,
strong without Judah.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
We are the Kingdom of Israel.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
The resounding chia rose from the assembly, but Jeroboah me
well enough cheers today did not guarantee loyalty tomorrow. As
the crowd started to disperse to the center of town
to celebrate their new found independence, his shrewd eyes scanned
the fringes of the crowd until he found him Abbieu,
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an old priest from Shiloh, situated at the edge of
the crowd. Jeroboah moved with the throng of people, shaking
hands and clapping arms until he finally made his way
to the stooped priest on the edge. He then bent
down so as to be high leveled with Abio. Jeroboam's
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voice dropped so only the priest could hear him.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Abiel, I'm honored that you would be here at my coronation.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Really, I must admit I'm surprised to hear that your Highness.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Though not from the prominent line of high priests now
situated in Jerusalem. Abio was still an influential priest in
the lesser spiritual circles of the north Shiloh, Bethel and Shechem,
and he knew the prophet a Hyjah. Well, Jeroboam knew
the priest would be essential in securing his hold on
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the northern tribes.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Oh yes, and I'm sure you're familiar with the prophecy
given about me by the Prophet Hyjah.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Oh, of course, your highness, everyone in Israel knows about that.
The northerners have talked of nothing else these last few years.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Oh well, I only meant to say that that a
Hyja mentioned mentioned you. Really, I have long considered you
from my council, Ebiel, and now that I'm king, I
would I would be honored to have you at my side.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
The old man seemed caught off guard to have risen
to the attention of the new king, but Jeroboam noticed
with satisfaction that a flush of pride came over him.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Why, of course, it would be an honor to advise you, my.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
King, wonder wonderful. Now come, let me introduce you to
my wife and my two sons, Abaijah and a DApp
the future of Israel.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Jeroboam charismatically through an arm around the old priest and
steered him over to his waiting family and the other
influential men he had collected for his inner circle. Jeroboam
had no royal blood, no claim, but the one he seized.
Rioboam had power handed to him while Jeroboam had earned it.
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He prided himself on the difference. Where Rio Bouam's fragile
ego made him reckless, Jeroboam harnessed the wisdom of others,
shaping it into something he could wield. But even in
this triumph, a seed of fear had taken root in
Jeroboam's heart. He had taken the kingdom, but a question
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kept gnawing at the back of his mind. How long
could he hold it. He could charm, then, win alliances,
and shape his kingdom, but there was one thing he
could never change. The heart of Israel still beat in Jerusalem,
and as long as the temple stood, his throne would
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never be secure. In the south, in the Palace of Jerusalem,
Rioboam licked his wounds from his humiliating ousting from his
would be coronation. In the north, he stormed through the corridors,
his fury masking the utter embarrassment of it. All his
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royal guard were stoned and burned alive while he fled
with his weeping mother, his hands still trembled at the thought,
barely containing his fury. He was still king technically speaking.
But there wasn't a merchant, nobleman, or farmer who hadn't
heard of what happened. There was no getting around it.
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He had fled from Shechem, fled from his own people.
What he did next was critical to regain the control
he had lost. He stormed into the audience chamber, still
fuming about how he was humiliated. His inner circle was
waiting for him. Nayamar his mother, Maha, his favorite wife,
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and Abijan along with his group of young instigators.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
They think they can defy me, that they can cast
me aside like some commoner. And have you heard false
skin Jeobom, that's your surber saying that they alone in
the north are Israel. We are only Judah. Can you
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believe that.
Speaker 9 (11:26):
They have made a mistake, my love, a mistake you
will correct. Israel is not Israel without Judah to meet them.
Everyone knows that.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
His wife practically purred her words of comfort, as his
mother slammed the table with her fist.
Speaker 10 (11:45):
Your father built this kingdom with his bare hats. He
made Jerusalem the finest city in the world. We will
not be able to shame in our own kingdom.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
You will reclaim it. We should go to war father
who speaks that as it's a lesson at the kingdom. Yes, unlesson.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Rear Boham turned to his last loyal general, Beniah, the
old warrior who had once fought beside David himself.
Speaker 8 (12:15):
Raise the army, rouse our allies. Surely the tribe of
Benjamin will stand with us. Jerusalem is their territory. After all,
we march at dawn.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
My king, Are you sure this is not just a battle,
This would be a civil war. Rear Boham's pride flared heart.
It blinded him to the severity of Beniah's warning.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
I will not be the king who loses the house
of David's kingdom.
Speaker 10 (12:48):
Yes, we'll destroy all the disloyal tribal with him, and
off the pleas families, loyal families all in their face.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I'm sure the trait is no mercy.
Speaker 10 (12:59):
White them off the face of the earth.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
The young nobles hung on every word and pounded the
table and enthusiastic support. His son Abijan had a certainty
and confidence to him that Ria Boham envied. The two
women eyed him with maternal admiration. They shaped him into
the young leader that he was. But the old general frowned,
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disapproval flashing and then quickly disappearing on his disciplined face.
Rio Boham saw it flare up, even though his own
fury bent on revenge. The look was sobering. Even in
Rio Boham's murderous rage, Doubt twinged in his gut, casting
a shadow of uncertainty over their plans. I will meet
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with my resents and see about raising the force.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
With their eyes.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Ria Boham tamped down the flicker of doubt. He turned
back to his advisers, but his gaze lingered on on Abijam,
his son, so young, so sure. There was no hesitation
in his words, no fear, no doubt. Was this what
a true king looked like? Ria Boam swallowed hard, clenching
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his fists. If he had to carve his name into
history with blood, so be it. Let the North.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Burn, Let the whole kingdom burn. Means say, fear me again.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
While rio Boam sharpened his swords for war. Up in
the north, Jeroboam paced the stone floors of his newly
built palace in Shechem. It was plain, almost austere, nothing
like the grandeur of Jerusalem. But power was not in
the walls. Power was in control, and if Jeroboam was
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to keep his throne, he needed more than soldiers. He
needed loyalty. He needed time, time to fortify, to build,
to make the people forget the house of David. Abiel,
the priest stood across from him, his brow furrowed. He
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had lingered after the council meeting had concluded to express
his concern about the rising number of advisers and priests
of other gods. To Jeroboam's annoyance, it was becoming a
bit of a pattern.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yes, yes, yes, I heard you the first time. But
tell me this what happens when they long for the temple,
when their hearts turned toward Jerusalem.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Then let them go to worship as the Lord commanded.
You were chosen, my king, appointed by the prophet Ahijah,
by the will of the Lord. He will keep your
throne secure.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Jeroboams, stiffened, faith alone had not put him here it
had been strategy, persuasion, and an understanding of the people's grievances.
He would not let faith be his undoing. Jeroboham turned
his back on the priest, a shadow crossing his face.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
We must give them something else.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Is this why you've been entertaining the counsel of these
pagan priests?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
You should know better.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Don't you know your history? And did not the prophet
Ahijah warn you of what would happen if you turn
from the Lord. You flirt with disaster?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
My king, the prophet told me I would be king,
and I am. I may not have been brought up
with tutors, but I know enough of our history. Can
you sound like my youngest son and adapt, always worrying
and fretting like a little desert mouse clinging to my
wife's hem.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Visibly exasperated, the old priest sighed and tried a softer approach.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
You have what you wanted, Jeroboam, Do not turn from
the Lord now. After all this.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
If the people must visit Jerusalem to worship, then it's
more and more opportunity for Rehaboum to entice them with
wealth and false promises. The temple is a threat we
need one here.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
My king.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
I beg you trust the Lord to uphold what he
has given.
Speaker 9 (17:22):
You.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Do not repeat Solomon's folly.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
The Jeroboam's mind was made up.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
No, we will build our own altars, our own places
of worship.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Abel's breath hedged.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
But the ark of the covenant is in Jerusalem. Who
will you build these places of worship.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
To the King? Does not beg for loyalty, He shapes it.
If they long for the temple, I will give them
something to bow before.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
The silence between them was deafening. Abel's body tenenced in fear,
but Jeroboam's lips curved into a slow smile. By the
time he was finished, they would no longer look to Jerusalem.
They would kneel here in the kingdom he built for them.
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Back in the south, in Jerusalem, rio Boam's forces stood ready,
banners unfurled, war drums pounding. His army was prepared to
march north, reclaiming what had been stolen from him. Then
the prophet arrived, a lone figure in the vast corridors
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of the palace. His name was Shamiah. The name alone
was a thunderclap in the hall. A prophet of the Lord.
Ria Boam stiffened in his seat. As the man entered
the rooms, stilled attention deeper than battle weighed upon them.
Now his general rules, his young nobles, even his own family.
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Each of them felt it. Shemaiah's robes were simple, but
the authority in his presence was like iron. He did
not kneel, he did not bow. He raised a hand,
his voice booming with divine finality.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
You shall not go up and fight against your brothers.
This division is from the Lord.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
The words sliced through the room like a blade. Beniah,
the old warrior, exhaled sharply, his shoulders slumping as though
he had just been released from death itself. His relief
was palpable. My king, we can have to fight the
Lord's decree. But even as the general spoke, there was
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a ripple of unease. The young nobles shifted, glancing at
one another, their expressions darkening. Rhea Boem's jaw clenched. He
could feel their eyes on him, the weight of their expectations. Abijan,
his son, was the first to speak, his voice sharp
and unyielding.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
The Lord's degree.
Speaker 10 (20:17):
The Lord's degree is that my father should be key
over all Israel, as is our right, as the house
of David.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
There were murmurs of agreement to that. The nobles stirred,
their loyalty, fueled by fury, by ambition, by the intoxicating
hunger for power. Macha touched Ria Boham's arm gently, her
voice smooth, coaxing.
Speaker 9 (20:43):
The prophet is wrong, my love. The Lord does not
divide his people. Would he truly let rebels steal what
is yours, what was David's?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
But then his mother Neamar spoke. She stood judas stone,
her dark eyes locked onto Shemaiah with something close to contempt.
Speaker 10 (21:07):
The throne of Israel is yours, my son. Will you
surrender it without even a fight. We have been praying
to Milcom day and night, readying for war. Don't throw
away his favor like this.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
The room was turning, voices rising. The young nobles pounded
the table.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
We should go to war.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Let us take back what is ours.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Ria Boham's fingers dug into the arms of his throne.
He wanted to believe them, needed to believe them. And
yet the prophet's gaze was unwavering, unshaken. His father's god,
the god who had spoken to Solomon, the god who
had made David's throne unshakable. A chill coiled around Ria
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Boham's spine. His vision blurred with rage, But deep inside,
beneath his pride was something else, fear. His voice, when
it came, was tight, reluctant, almost strangled.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
Withdraw the troops.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
The words fell like a hammer into the silence. The
nobles stiffened. Abijam's nostrils flared, his fists tight with fury.
A murmur rippled through the ranks, but none dared disobey.
The war was over before it began, And as Riar
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Boam sat there, his father's throne beneath him, but a
divided kingdom beyond him, he knew one thing with certainty.
They would not forget this moment, and neither would he.
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In Jerusalem, Riar Boam sat in his own room, stewing
over his failure. He had lost the north, lost his people,
and now, with no war to fight, he turned inward
to his father's wealth, his father's women, his father's indulgences.
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The nation was fractured, and two distinct identities emerged, Israel
to the north and Judah to the south. The kingdom
David had fought to unite, was divided. What Solomon had
built was torn apart by his son. But even as
Riar Boham drowned in self pity in the north, Jeroboam
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was sealing his own fate. In the ancient, storied city
of Bethel, torches flickered against the night sky. The scent
of burning incense clung to the air, mingling with the
hummer voices. Before the gathered priests and tribal leaders, Jerobol
Poems stood tall and commanding. He raised his arms, his
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voice ringing bold with the certainty of his decision.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Behold your gods, o Israel, here are the gods who
brought you out of Egypt.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
A hush fell over the crowd. For a moment, silence
held its breath. Then shock waves rippled through the assembly.
Some cheered, desperate for a kingdom fully severed from Jerusalem's rule.
They raised their hands, bowed their heads, grateful for this
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new order Jeroboam had created. But others hesitated. The words
had been spoken once before, in a time of wilderness,
in a time of calves and golden idols and ruin.
At the edge of the gathering, Abiel felt his stomach twist.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
He really doesn't know our history. This is the golden calf.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Abiel had feared this. He had warned Jeroboam that power
alone could not hold a kingdom together. They needed the
guidance of their God, for the Lord's relationship with Israel
as what set them apart from the rest of the world.
And now before his eyes, the new king had crossed
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the line. The firelight cast grotesque shadows against the gleaming
golden calves.
Speaker 9 (25:29):
What have you done?
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Jeroboam did not look at him, He did not waver.
His decision had been made, and neither he nor Rear
Boham could see it yet, But their choices would lead
them both to ruin.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
What does fear do to people? Today's story shows us
the worst it can do, and it makes someone act
in the least godly way possible. But it didn't have
to be that way, chosen by God. Jeroboam had established
his kingdom in the north with the ten tribes, but
he was afraid, and he ruled in fear. What was
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he so afraid of? Well, Jeroboam was afraid of the
Israelites and his kingdom going to Jerusalem, especially for the
biblical festivals. But fearful of going to Jerusalem. That doesn't
make so much sense, does it. Why would he fear that? Well,
Jeroboam worried that his people in the north would come
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in contact with the Temple in all of its glory
and with Rahoboam, the King of Judah. So Jeroboam had
no problem breaking multiple biblical laws just to keep his
people from visiting Jerusalem. To keep them from developing an
allegiance to Hobom, he set up two spiritual centers in
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the north and placed a golden calf, the very symbol
of idolatry and rebellion against Moses, in the desert. In
each of those spiritual centers, he even uttered the same
words as the people did as they danced around the
original golden calf in the desert. He said, this, here
are your gods, o Israel, who brought you up from
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the land of Egypt. Here we have it yet again,
someone whose ego and less for power blinded him to
the evil that he was perpetrating. But for Jerobom, his
actions brought the ultimate punishment, and that was exile from
the Holy Land. But I have a question, why did
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the people accept this shocking departure from the proper path. Well,
some of our sages suggests that the opulence and general
prosperity during Solomon's reign caused them to focus on material
matters a lot more than spiritual ones. They neglected the
study of the Torah. There's an important expression, who's meaning.
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The people ignored the land of Israel without the Torah
is like a body without a soul. Once they had
abandoned the Torah, the Bible we are studying right now,
they were taken by the shining gold of the golden
calves of Idolatry. As we've seen again and again, God
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is always open to a sinner's tshuva, to a sinner's repentance.
Even though God sent a prophet to admonish Droobom, he
still didn't repent. Jewish tradition gives Droboam the worst condemnation.
He's condemned as one who sins and causes others to sin.
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It's one thing to go off track yourself, but to
bring a whole community of ten tribes along with you.
Can you imagine anything worse than that? Yet again we
see the concept of sincere and pious leadership being so
important to the chosen people because we see where the
leader goes, so go those that they are leading. And
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at the end of today's story, Aijah the prophet delivers
a blistering prophecy to the Northern Kingdom in general and
to Drobam's family specifically. In short, both the Northern Kingdom
and Drobam's family would suffer complete and total destruction. This
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isn't comfortable for us to read or to hear, but
it points to had another truth that the Bible has
shown us over and over again, even if this truth
is pretty brutal. It's that our existence in the Holy
Land is dependent upon following God's laws and even more specifically,
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not descending into a idolatry. Our world today might not
be gripped like the days of the Bible were by
the temptation of idolatry, but we have plenty of other
temptations that draw us away from God, don't we, And
just as the Chosen people did in Bible times, we
look towards our spiritual leaders, our pastors, and our rabbis
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for guidance and to act as role models for us,
and we pray that, unlike the kings we met today,
that our leaders are worthy and that they help us
to be worthy in the eyes of God. There's something
heartbreaking and watching a people divided, because once we were
twelve sons, twelve tens, one camp in the wilderness, with
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one flame above us. But here in this episode it
all slips away. The sons of Jacob pull apart. It's
not exile, not yet, but it's the beginning of the
Chosen People's unraveling. Jeroboam thought a new altar would secure
his throne, but altars built on fear will always betray us.
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And Rahaboam thought war would prove that he was worthy,
but violence cannot restore what pride destroyed.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Maybe you're in.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
A season where something has been torn apart, a relationship,
a ministry, a dream that you built that's now scattered,
and maybe you're standing in that rubble, like Jeroboam or Roboam,
asking how do I hold this all together? My friends?
Let me tell you the strength to lead well does
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not come from controlling outcomes. It comes from listening, from stopping,
from surrendering your own expectations and trusting in God. So
let's be a people who listen to Him and lead
not by force but faith.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
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Football’s funniest family duo — Jason Kelce of the Philadelphia Eagles and Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs — team up to provide next-level access to life in the league as it unfolds. The two brothers and Super Bowl champions drop weekly insights about the weekly slate of games and share their INSIDE perspectives on trending NFL news and sports headlines. They also endlessly rag on each other as brothers do, chat the latest in pop culture and welcome some very popular and well-known friends to chat with them. Check out new episodes every Wednesday. Follow New Heights on the Wondery App, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to new episodes early and ad-free, and get exclusive content on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. And join our new membership for a unique fan experience by going to the New Heights YouTube channel now!