930 – 910 BC evil reign start to finish in time of Prophet Ahijah
Jeroboam’s Idolatry
25Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and lived there. And he went out from there and built Penuel. 26Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to the house of David.27“If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of YHVH at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will return to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.” 28So the king consulted, and made two golden calves, and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem; behold your gods, O Israel, that brought you up from the land of Egypt.” 29He set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. 30Now this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one as far as Dan. 31And he made houses on high places, and made priests from among all the people who were not of the sons of Levi. 32Jeroboam instituted a feast in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast which is in Judah, and he went up to the altar; thus he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves which he had made. And he stationed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made. 33Then he went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised in his own heart; and he instituted a feast for the sons of Israel and went up to the altar to burn incense.
1 Kings 12:25-33
2 Chronicles 10
Meaning of Jeroboam יָרָבְעָם is commonly held to derive from riyb רִיב and ʿam עַם, signifying “the people contend” or “he pleads the people’s cause”. Alternatively “his people are many” or “he increases the people” (from רבב rbb, meaning “to increase”), or “he that opposes the people”.
Father: Jeroboam was the son of Nebat, a member of the Tribe of Ephraim of Zereda.
Mother: Zeruah (צרוע “leprous”) was a widow.
26Then Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, Solomon’s servant, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow, also rebelled against the king [Solomon].
1 Kings 11:26
Spouse: Ano (named only in the Septuagint as an Egyptian princess)
And Susakim [Ramesses II] gave to Jeroboam Ano the eldest sister of Thekemina his wife: she was great among the daughters of the king [Ramesses II], and she bore to Jerobaom Abia his son
1 Kings 12:24 LXX
Children: He had at least two sons, Abijah and Nadab, who succeeded him on the throne.
1At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick.