Decide, Declare, Delete

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CONTEXT: Solomon is said to have died around 922 BCE of old age, and with his death his son and successor, Rehoboam, confronted the people of Israel. As Samuel had warned, Rehoboam greatly increased the tax and labor burden on Israel. Northern Israel rebelled, and a civil war broke out. The leader of the revolt was a man called Jeroboam. Under his leadership, the north seceded and became an independent state, maintaining the name Israel and the state to the south became known as Judah. None of the Kings of Israel that followed the rebellion were, “good” but one was perhaps the worst - Ahab. 1 Kings 16:30–31 (ESV) 30 And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord, more than all who were before him. 31 And as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took for his wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal and worshiped him. Idolatry was the sin that brought God’s harsh discipline more than any other sin.

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