1 Kings 16:2

New English Translation

“I raised you up from the dust and made you ruler over my people Israel. Yet you followed in Jeroboam’s footsteps and encouraged my people Israel to sin; their sins have made me angry.

Cross References

1 Kings 14:16

He will hand Israel over to their enemies because of the sins which Jeroboam committed and which he made Israel commit.”

1 Kings 14:7

Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘This is what the Lord God of Israel says: “I raised you up from among the people and made you ruler over my people Israel.

1 Kings 15:26

He did evil in the sight of the Lord. He followed in his father’s footsteps and encouraged Israel to sin.

1 Kings 15:34

He did evil in the sight of the Lord; he followed in Jeroboam’s footsteps and encouraged Israel to sin.

Exodus 32:21

Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you, that you have brought on them so great a sin?”

Jeremiah 7:18

Children are gathering firewood, fathers are building fires with it, and women are mixing dough to bake cakes to offer to the goddess they call the Queen of Heaven. They are also pouring out drink offerings to other gods. They seem to do all this just to trouble me.

Matthew 5:19

So anyone who breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches others to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever obeys them and teaches others to do so will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Luke 1:52

He has brought down the mighty from their thrones, and has lifted up those of lowly position;

1 Samuel 2:24

This ought not to be, my sons! For the report that I hear circulating among the Lord’s people is not good.

1 Samuel 2:8

He lifts the weak from the dust; he raises the poor from the ash heap to seat them with princes and to bestow on them an honored position. The foundations of the earth belong to the Lord, and he has placed the world on them.

1 Samuel 26:19

So let my lord the king now listen to the words of his servant. If the Lord has incited you against me, may he take delight in an offering. But if men have instigated this, may they be cursed before the Lord! For they have driven me away this day from being united with the Lord’s inheritance, saying, ‘Go on, serve other gods!’