Jeroboam
historical figure · 5 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
king Jeroboam · the king
in the texts
Stromata
Jeroboam, of the tribe of Ephraim, former servant of Solomon, who becomes king of Samaria when the kingdom divides.
In his time, the kingdom being divided, Jeroboam, of the tribe of Ephraim, the servant of Solomon, reigns in Samaria;
The Rights of War and Peace
Biblical king whose children are cited as an example of divine punishment.
Therefore if he thinks proper to take away by a premature or violent death the children of Achan, Saul, Jeroboam or Ahab, he is exercising over them the right of sovereignty, as well as that of punishment;
Adversus Judaeos
King under whom Israel worshipped golden calves and Baal.
So too in later times, when kings ruled over them and with Jeroboam they worshipped golden calves and groves and bound themselves to Baal.
Adversus Marcionem
King who established the breakaway northern kingdom's cult center at Samaria.
But Samaria had revolted from Israel, having that schism out of the nine tribes, which, torn away through the prophet Ahijah, Jeroboam had placed at Samaria.
De ieiunio adversus psychicos
The Israelite king whose idolatrous altar was denounced by Shemaiah and whose hand was miraculously withered and restored.
Shemaiah, the man of God, when he had prophesied the destruction of the idolatry introduced by king Jeroboam, after that king's hand was withered and at once restored, after the altar was riven—being invited by the king for these signs to take refreshment, plainly excused himself (for he had been forbidden by God) from touching food at all there;