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Jeroboam I (/ ˌ dʒ ɛr ə ˈ b oʊ. əm /; Hebrew: יָרָבְעָם Yārŏḇʿām; Greek: Ἱεροβοάμ, romanized: Hieroboám), frequently cited Jeroboam son of Nebat, was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the first king of the northern Kingdom of Israel following a revolt of the ten tribes against Rehoboam that put an end to the United Monarchy.
He was a son of and the successor to Solomon and a grandson of David. In the account of I Kings and II Chronicles , Rehoboam saw his rule limited to only the Kingdom of Judah in the south following a rebellion by the ten northern tribes of Israel in 932/931 BCE, which led to the formation of the independent Kingdom of Israel under the rule of ...
After Solomon's son Rehoboam assumed the throne, Jeroboam returned to Israel and participated in a delegation sent to ask the new king to reduce taxes. After Rehoboam rejected their petition, ten of the tribes withdrew their allegiance to the house of David, thus fulfilling the prophecies.
Jeroboam's Revolt (c. 931–913 BCE) – Began after the death of David's son and successor Solomon in the Kingdom of Israel and Judah. All of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, except for Judah and Benjamin, rejected Solomon's son and successor Rehoboam in favour of Jeroboam and thereby withdrew their allegiance to the House of David.
Following the death of Rehoboam, his son Abijah succeeded the throne as King of Judah. [12] He began his three-year reign (2 Chr. 12:16; 13:1, 2) with a strenuous but unsuccessful effort to bring back the ten tribes of the northern Kingdom of Israel to their allegiance, [ 13 ] a path which in 2 Chronicles 11:4 his father had chosen not to follow.
The hypothesized dates of Solomon's reign are from 970 to 931 BCE. According to the biblical narrative, after Solomon's death, his son and successor Rehoboam adopted harsh policies towards the northern Israelites, who then rejected the reign of the House of David and sought Jeroboam as their king.
Solomon's death led to the rejection of the House of David by most of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, with only Judah and Benjamin remaining loyal: the dissenters chose Jeroboam as their monarch and formed the Kingdom of Israel in the north ; while the loyalists kept Solomon's son Rehoboam as their monarch and formed the Kingdom of Judah in the ...
Jeroboam was a son of Sarira, a harlot. [ 20 ] Jeroboam, while serving a commander of a chariot unit during Solomon's reign, laid claim to the entire kingdom, so Solomon sought to kill him, but Jeroboam escaped to Egypt (verse 24b).