(people of Jehovah). [See Jeriah]
Jerimoth
(heights).
•Son or descendant of Bela. (1 Chronicles 7:7) He is perhaps the same as
•who joined David at Ziklag. (1 Chronicles 12:5) (B.C. 1055.)
•A son of Beecher, (1 Chronicles 7:8) and head of a Benjamite house.
•Son of Mushi, the son of Merari. (1 Chronicles 24:30)
•Son of Heman, head of fifteenth ward of musicians. (1 Chronicles 25:4,22) (B.C. 1014.)
•Son of Zariel, ruler of the tribe of Naphtali in the reign of David. (1 Chronicles 27:19)
•Son of King David, whose daughter Mahalath was one of the wives of Rehoboam, her cousin
Abihail being the other. (2 Chronicles 11:18) (B.C. before 1014.)
•A Levite in the reign of Hezekiah. (2 Chronicles 31:13) (B.C. 726.)
Jerioth
(curtains), one of the elder Caleb’s wives. (1 Chronicles 2:18)
Jeroboam
(whose people are many).
•The first king of the divided kingdom of Israel, B.C. 975-954, was the son of an Ephraimite of
the name of Nebat. He was raised by Solomon to the rank of superintendent over the taxes and
labors exacted from the tribe of Ephraim. (1 Kings 11:28) he made the most of his position, and
at last was perceived by Solomon to be aiming at the monarchy. He was leaving Jerusalem, when
he was met by Ahijah the prophet, who gave him the assurance that, on condition of obedience to
his laws, God would establish for him a kingdom and dynasty equal to that of David. (1 Kings
11:29-40) The attempts of Solomon to cut short Jeroboam’s designs occasioned his flight into
Egypt. There he remained until Solomon’s death. After a year’s longer stay in Egypt, during which
Jeroboam married Ano, the elder sister of the Egyptian queen Tahpenes, he returned to Shechem,
where took place the conference with Rehoboam [Rehoboam], and the final revolt which ended
in the elevation of Jeroboam to the throne of the northern kingdom. Now occurred the fatal error
of his policy. Fearing that the yearly pilgrimages to Jerusalem would undo all the work which he
effected, he took the bold step of rending the religious unity of the nation, which was as yet
unimpaired, asunder. He caused two golden figures of Mnevis, the sacred calf, to be made and set
up at the two extremities of his kingdom, one at Dan and the other at Bethel. It was while dedicating
the altar at Bethel that a prophet from Judah suddenly appeared, who denounced the altar, and
foretold its desecration by Josiah, and violent overthrow. The king, stretching out his hand to arrest
the prophet, felt it withered and paralyzed, and only at the prophet’s prayer saw it restored, and
acknowledged his divine mission. Jeroboam was at constant war with the house of Judah, but the
only act distinctly recorded is a battle with Abijah, son of Rehoboam, in which he was defeated.
The calamity was severely felt; he never recovered the blow, and soon after died, in the 22d year
of his reign, (2 Chronicles 13:20) and was buried in his ancestral sepulchre. (1 Kings 14:20)
•Jeroboam II., the son of Joash, the fourth of the dynasty of Jehu. (B.C. 825-784.) The most
prosperous of the kings of Israel. He repelled the Syrian invaders, took their capital city Damascus,
(2 Kings 14:28) and recovered the whole of the ancient dominion from Hamah to the Dead Sea.
ch (2 Kings 14:25) Ammon and Moab were reconquered, and the transjordanic tribes were restored
to their territory, (2 Kings 13:5; 1 Chronicles 5:17-22) but it was merely an outward restoration.
Jeroham
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