History Globe
Tour · c. 931 BC
The kingdom divides
Jerusalem 1 Kgs 11:29–31
As Jeroboam goes out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite tears a new garment into twelve pieces and gives him ten: ten tribes will be his.
Open on the map →Egypt 1 Kgs 11:40 · ≈ 415 km in a straight line
Solomon seeks to kill him, and Jeroboam flees to Shishak king of Egypt until Solomon's death.
Open on the map →Shechem 1 Kgs 12:1–20 · ≈ 445 km in a straight line
At Shechem Rehoboam will not lighten the yoke, and Israel answers: "to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David." Rehoboam reigns only over those who dwell in the cities of Judah.
Open on the map →Penuel 1 Kgs 12:25 · ≈ 39 km in a straight line
Jeroboam builds Shechem in mount Ephraim and dwells there, and from there goes out and builds Penuel.
Open on the map →Dan 1 Kgs 12:28–30 · ≈ 120 km in a straight line
So that the people need not go up to Jerusalem, he makes two calves of gold, one for Bethel and one for Dan: "behold thy gods, O Israel."
Open on the map →Bethel 1 Kgs 13:1–5 · ≈ 150 km in a straight line
At Bethel a man of God from Judah cries against the altar, "O altar, altar," foretells Josiah, and the altar is rent.
Open on the map →Shiloh 1 Kgs 14:1–16 · ≈ 15 km in a straight line
Disguised, Jeroboam's wife goes to Shiloh to ask the blind Ahijah about her sick son; he knows her at the door and foretells the end of Jeroboam's house.
Open on the map →Tirzah 1 Kgs 14:17–18 · ≈ 26 km in a straight line
As she comes to Tirzah and crosses the threshold, the child dies.
Open on the map →Jerusalem 1 Kgs 14:25–26 · ≈ 58 km in a straight line
In Rehoboam's fifth year Shishak king of Egypt comes up against Jerusalem and takes the treasures of the house of the Lord and the golden shields of Solomon.
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