jeroboam i was the first king of the northern kingdom.
jeroboam i was the first king of the northern kingdom.
who was the first king of the northern kingdom?
jeroboam i
amos felt himself called to preach in bethel, where there was a royal sanctuary (), and there to announce the fall of the reigning dynasty and of the northern kingdom. but he is denounced by the head priest amaziah to king jeroboam ii and is advised to leave the kingdom. there is no reason to doubt that he was actually forced to leave the northern kingdom and to return to his native country. being thus prevented from bringing his message to an end, and from reaching the ear of those to whom he was sent, he wrote instead. if they could not hear his messages, they could read them, and if his contemporaries refused to do so, following generations might still profit by them. no earlier instance of a literary prophet is known; but the example he gave was followed by others in an almost unbroken succession. it can not be proved that hosea knew the book of amos, though there is no reason to doubt that he was acquainted with the latter's work and experiences. it is certain that isaiah knew his book, for he follows and even imitates him in his early speeches (compare , ff, with ; ff with ff, ). cheyne concludes that amos wrote the record of his prophetical work at jerusalem, after his expulsion from the northern kingdom, and that he committed it to a circle of faithful followers residing there.
amos (prophet)
bullet::::2. as "an attack on the northern kingdom of israel." the second explanation relies on the "sin of jeroboam," who was the first king of the northern kingdom, as the cause of the northern kingdom's fall to assyria in 722 bce. jeroboam's "sin" was creating two calves of gold, and sending one to bethel as a worship site in the south of the kingdom, and the other to dan as a worship site in the north, so that the people of the northern kingdom would not have to continue to go to jerusalem to worship (see 1 kings 12:26–30). according to coogan, this episode is part of the deuteronomistic history, written in the southern kingdom of judah, after the fall of the northern kingdom, which was biased against the northern kingdom. coogan maintains that jeroboam was merely presenting an alternative to the cherubim of the temple in jerusalem, and that calves did not indicate non-yahwehistic worship.
golden calf