8 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Jeroboam from across Jewish tradition.
8 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines jeroboam, drawn from the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, Talmud, Kabbalah, and later Jewish literature. Each story below synthesizes primary sources into a single narrative; follow any myth to read it, and from there into the source passages behind it.
A herdsman with a broken tongue marched into Israel's golden-calf shrine and named its ruin, while the priest ran to the king to have him silenced.
No burial without silver and gold paid to the crown. Families scraped coins together to bury their dead. On his public day the city shouted him down.
He sat a scoffer beside every honest man in the room and asked the pair the same four questions. The fourth one was the trap.
Ahijah promised Jeroboam a throne equal to David's if he stayed worthy. Pride refused to stand while Rehoboam sat, so calves rose at Bethel and Dan.
Jeroboam closed the road to Jerusalem and set guards on it, with death for anyone who passed. A second Abijah, his son, took them away and went up himself.
At Bethel's illicit altar Jeroboam seized toward the man of God, and his arm dried in midair until he begged the same prophet to heal him.
Asahels name broke Davids casualty list. Pharaoh's daughter broke Solomons list of loves. That wedding day Gabriel planted a reed in the sea, and Rome rose.
Jeroboam pressed the north to fight Judah. The people refused. When he turned to Dan's warriors, they swore by their ancestor and left the land.
