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1 Kings 14:13-15
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13 All Israel will mourn him and bury him. He is the only one in Jeroboam’s family[a] who will receive a decent burial, for he is the only one in whom the Lord God of Israel found anything good. 14 The Lord will raise up a king over Israel who will cut off Jeroboam’s dynasty.[b] It is ready to happen![c] 15 The Lord will attack Israel, making it like a reed that sways in the water.[d] He will remove Israel from this good land he gave to their ancestors[e] and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River,[f] because they angered the Lord by making Asherah poles.[g]

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  1. 1 Kings 14:13 tn Heb “house.”
  2. 1 Kings 14:14 tn Heb “house.”
  3. 1 Kings 14:14 tn Heb “This is the day. What also now?” The precise meaning of the second half of the statement is uncertain.
  4. 1 Kings 14:15 tn The elliptical Hebrew text reads literally “and the Lord will strike Israel as a reed sways in the water.”
  5. 1 Kings 14:15 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 22, 31).
  6. 1 Kings 14:15 tn Heb “the River.” In biblical Hebrew this is a typical reference to the Euphrates River. The name “Euphrates” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
  7. 1 Kings 14:15 tn Heb “because they made their Asherah poles that anger the Lord”; or “their images of Asherah”; ASV, NASB “their Asherim”; NCV “they set up idols to worship Asherah.”sn Asherah was a leading deity of the Canaanite pantheon, wife/sister of El and goddess of fertility. She was commonly worshiped at shrines in or near groves of evergreen trees, or, failing that, at places marked by wooden poles. These were to be burned or cut down (Deut 12:3; 16:21; Judg 6:25, 28, 30; 2 Kgs 18:4).
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