3 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Jeroboam from across Jewish tradition.
3 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.
Jeroboam rebuked King Solomon in public for what looked like apostasy. He was wrong, and the rabbis say the ripple stretched across centuries.
Jeroboam builds two golden calves to stop pilgrimages to Jerusalem. A prophet addresses his altar, survives the king's hand, then dies for accepting dinner.
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.
