The history of the Northern Kingdom of Israel is a history shrouded with a sad reality of how wicked and bent towards evil the human heart is. It’s a history that portrays how power and its allurements corrupts the human heart, hence it’s a sound warning for those who desire to possess power.
My focus in this article will be the Northern Kingdom of Israel
hence I will majorly mention the kings of the North. This is after Solomon’s
reign had ended and the kingdom was split into two, the Northern Kingdom of
Israel under Jeroboam son of Nebat and the Southern Kingdom of Judah under the
lineage of David starting with Rehoboam son of Solomon.
The man Solomon was handed over a very strong kingdom. United by his father David, who was a man after God’s own heart1. In 1 Kings 11, the Bible gives a summary of Solomon’s failure, which was steered by his love for women, and especially women that God had warned Israel not to intermarry with. These women drove Solomon’s heart away from God and he ended up serving foreign gods in his old age and as a result God divided the United Kingdom of Israel into two.
