14“The LORD will raise up for himself a king over Israel who will cut off the family of Jeroboam. Even now this is beginning to happen. The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.15And the LORD will strike Israel, so that it will be like a reed swaying in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that he gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they aroused the LORD ’s anger by making Asherah poles. That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah; here and elsewhere in 1 Kings
16And he will give Israel up because of the sins Jeroboam has committed and has caused Israel to commit.”
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