{"id":34925,"date":"2025-03-02T22:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T05:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=34925"},"modified":"2025-02-25T17:34:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T00:34:32","slug":"1-kings-14_21-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/1-kings-14_21-31\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dangers of Worshiping an Idol"},"content":{"rendered":"

1 Kings 14:21-31\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 (CLICK HERE FOR\u00a0BIBLE VERSES)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is 1 Kings 14:21-31.\u00a0 As usual,\u00a0I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first.\u00a0 See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit\u2019s help. Then read the GAME sharing below.\u00a0 Let’s go!<\/p>\n

1 Kings 14:21-31 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n21\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Rehoboam son of Solomon was king in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the\u00a0LORD\u00a0had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel in which to put his Name. His mother’s name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite.
\n22\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Judah did evil in the eyes of the\u00a0LORD. By the sins they committed they stirred up his jealous anger more than their fathers had done.
\n23\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0They also set up for themselves high places, sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.
\n24\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land; the people engaged in all the detestable practices of the nations the\u00a0LORD\u00a0had driven out before the Israelites.
\n25\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.
\n26\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0He carried off the treasures of the temple of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0and the treasures of the royal palace. He took everything, including all the gold shields Solomon had made.
\n27\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned these to the commanders of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace.
\n28\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Whenever the king went to the\u00a0LORD’s temple, the guards bore the shields, and afterward they returned them to the guardroom.
\n29\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0As for the other events of Rehoboam’s reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?
\n30\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0There was continual warfare between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.
\n31\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0And Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David. His mother’s name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite. And Abijah his son succeeded him as king.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses\u00a021-31:\u00a0 These verses summarize the 17 year reign of Rehoboam, David’s grandson and Solomon’s son, over the tribe of Judah.\u00a0 Judah (together with Benjamin) was the one tribe out of the tribes of Israel that the Lord did not tear away from the house of David.\u00a0 While Rehoboam ruled over Judah, Judah did evil in the eyes of the Lord by worshiping idols (v22). There was rampant idolatry in the land of Judah (v22-24).\u00a0 Right after this we read of how Shishak King of Egypt attacks King Rehoboam’s city of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

Why did Shishak launch this attack against Jerusalem?\u00a0 Two reasons:<\/p>\n

– In the previous generation, Rehoboam’s dad Solomon was on good terms with Egypt, even marrying the princess of Egypt.\u00a0 However, when Shishak took over Egypt, those peaceful relations between the house of David and Egypt did not last.\u00a0 Eager to re-establish Egyptian domination over all of Palestine and the rest of Asia, Shishak king of Egypt allied himself with Jeroboam (see\u00a01\u00a0Kings\u00a011:40) instead of Rehoboam and attacked Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

– 2 Chronicles 12:1-12\u00a0describes this attack in more detail.\u00a0 There we read that this attack was a consequence of Judah abandoning the LORD and following idols instead (see 2 Chronicles 12:1-5).\u00a0 In response to the attack, King Rehoboam actually humbles himself before God and in so doing saves the city from complete destruction.\u00a0 Still Shishak’s attack does great damage to the city of Jerusalem, as Shishak carries off all the gold items from the royal palace and the temple, including Solomon’s 500 gold shields (v26; see\u00a01\u00a0Kings\u00a010:16-17).\u00a0 Rehoboam replaces the gold shields with bronze shields (v27).<\/p>\n

What can we learn from this?\u00a0\u00a0When we forsake God and worship idols, we become vulnerable to Satan’s attacks and allow our enemy to take away the gold in our lives, that is, what is most precious to us.<\/strong>\u00a0 Whenever we worship an idol, our lives become impoverished and the things that we really hold dear in life will suffer.<\/p>\n

Are you worshiping an idol today?\u00a0 How do you know if you are worshiping an idol?\u00a0 Click\u00a0HERE<\/a>\u00a0to learn 4 clues that you may be worshiping an idol and what you can do to get rid of idol worship in your life.\u00a0 \u00a0Don’t give the enemy room to attack and impoverish your life by worshiping an idol.<\/p>\n

Father, may I not worship anything or anyone other than You, lest I expose myself to the enemy.\u00a0 \u00a0Thank You that when I seek Your kingdom and Your righteousness first, everything I need will be added.\u00a0 In Jesus’ name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n

copyright \u00a9 2022 Justin Lim. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is 1 Kings 14:21-31.\u00a0 As usual,\u00a0I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first.\u00a0 See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit\u2019s help. Then read the GAME sharing below.\u00a0 Let’s go!\u00a0<\/p>\n

1 Kings 14:21-31 (NIV)
\n21\u00a0\u00a0Rehoboam son of Solomon was king in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the\u00a0LORD\u00a0had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel in which to put his Name. His mother’s name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite.
\n22\u00a0\u00a0Judah did evil in the eyes of the\u00a0LORD. By the sins they committed they stirred up his jealous anger more than their fathers had done.<\/p>\n

On verses\u00a021-31:\u00a0 These verses summarize the 17 year reign of Rehoboam, David’s grandson and Solomon’s son, over the tribe of Judah.\u00a0 Judah (together with Benjamin) was the one tribe out of the tribes of Israel that the Lord did not tear away from the house of David.\u00a0 While Rehoboam ruled over Judah, Judah did evil in the eyes of the Lord by worshiping idols (v22).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34928,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34925\/revisions\/34928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}