1 Kings 14:14-16

God controls everything in heaven and on earth but He will also not intervene for good if we intentionally pursue evil.

It is His right alone to allow us to reap what we have sown.

God had promised that He would uproot Israel should it violate its covenantal obligations.The worship carried on here concerns the goddess Asherah. She had become associated with Baal. Her worship would become one of the sins that would bring about the downfall of the northern kingdom.

1 Kings 14:14-16

¹⁴ “Moreover the Lord will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam; this is the day. What? Even now! ¹⁵ For the Lord will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their wooden images, provoking the Lord to anger. ¹⁶ And He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who sinned and who made Israel sin.”

²⁸ And the Lord uprooted them from their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.’ 

Deuteronomy 29:28

⁵ God shall likewise destroy you forever; He shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place, And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah 

Psalm 52:5

¹⁶ When you have transgressed the covenant of the Lord your God, which He commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed down to them, then the anger of the Lord will burn against you, and you shall perish quickly from the good land which He has given you.” 

Joshua 23:16

¹³ But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images 

Exodus 34:13

² “Inasmuch as I lifted you out of the dust and made you ruler over My people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made My people Israel sin, to provoke Me to anger with their sins, 

1 Kings 16:2