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Jeroboam Old Testament 1. the first king of the northern kingdom of Israel (?922--?901 bc) 2. king of the northern kingdom of Israel (?786--?746 bc) Jeroboam forsook worship of God; made golden calves. [O.T.: I Kings 12:28–33] See : Idolatry Jeroboam with God’s sanction, establishes hegemony over ten tribes of Israel. [O.T.: I Kings 11:31–35] See : Rebellion How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Companies large and small figure that an event capable of inspiring apocalyptic novels, doomsday prophecies, $2,000 Jeroboams of wine, and plans for 24-hour blowouts in the world's 24 time zones to ring in the year 2000 has got to have some sort of commercial potential. The anti-festive faction believes that it's a night like any other - except for the irritating fact that there are a lot of jerks running around tooting noisemakers and toting jeroboams. |
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