Reference

1 Kings 15:29

And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the Lord, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:
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And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.

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Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead.

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And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the Lord, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:

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Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger.

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Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

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The verse explicitly states that Jeroboam's house was "destroyed," which is one of the key terms in the theme definition.

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The verse explicitly states that the destruction of Jeroboam's house was "according unto the saying of the Lord, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite." This direct attribution to God's word, delivered through a prophet, suggests divine agency as the primary explanation, rather than merely a human messenger operating under ancient Near Eastern agency conventions. While such conventions might explain *how* the message was delivered, they don't fully account for the *source* and *auth