So YHWH promises to bring harm upon the house of Jeroboam (1 Kgs. 14:10). This will include much carnage for dogs and birds to eat (1 Kgs. 14:10-11). Can we be sure? Oh yes; "for the LORD has spoken it" (1 Kgs. 14:11). There then follows a word about Jeroboam's child alone going to the grave (1 Kgs. 14:13), which appears to be a good thing in the context, as in Abijah only, among all Jeroboam's offspring, did YHWH find "something pleasing." So the child dies, "according to the word of the LORD" (1 Kgs. 14:18). Now "YHWH will raise up for himself a king over Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam" (1 Kgs. 14:14). Remember, he is the one who raises up and throws down kings.
So Jeroboam breaths his last (1 Kgs. 14:19-20) and Nadab his son begins to reign over Israel (1 Kgs. 15:25). But his reign ends rather abruptly when Baasha conspires against him and slays him (1 Kgs. 15:27-28). "And as soon as he was king, he killed all the house of Jeroboam. He left to the house of Jeroboam not one that breathed . . . according to the word of the LORD" (1 Kgs. 15:29). And we're even told why YHWH sent this massacre: "It was for the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned and that he made Israel to sin . . . (1 Kgs. 15:30).
Then, although Baasha was exalted by God (it was the Lord's doing, again, as always), yet since he was made of the same stuff as Jeroboam, he hears a similar word about his house being swept away like Jeroboam's: 1 Kgs. 16:2-3. When Baasha sleeps with his fathers, Elah his son comes to the throne (1 Kgs. 16:6, 8), which is followed fairly swiftly by his assassination and replacement by Zimri (1 Kgs. 16:10). And "according to the word of the LORD" (1 Kgs. 16:12), Zimri lays waste to "all the house of Baasha" (1 Kgs. 16:11).
This is sordid stuff, isn't it? And it comes to pass, all of it, down to where the droplets of blood spattered, "according to the word of the LORD," a not insignificant phrase, a phrase to be pondered.
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