Passage

1 Kings 14

• Doctrine

  God's Sovereignty over Kings and Nations

  Every king's rise and fall in this narrative, including foreign kings (e.g.

  1KI.14.7-11

• Glossary Term

  Prophecy

  Standard term; Ahijah's prophecy against Jeroboam (1 Kings 11:29-39; 14:1-16) is the key example of prophecy given and later fulfilled.

  1KI.14.1-18

• Doctrine

  Prophetic Word and Fulfillment

  The narrative repeatedly demonstrates that God's prophetic word is reliably fulfilled (Ahijah's prophecy against Jeroboam, the man of God's prophecy against the altar at Bethel); this reliability is the theological point, not incidental detail.

  1KI.14.1-18

• Glossary Term

  Word Of The Lord

  Standard phrase, low ambiguity.

  1KI.14.1-18