Nebat
Husband of Zeruah, father of Jeroboam, in the united monarchy of Israel. Named in scripture at 1 Kings 11:26.
What we know — and how we know it
Where in scripture
1 Kings2 Kings2 ChroniclesJeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow, also lifted up his hand against the king.
1 Kings 11:26
When Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was yet in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam lived in Egypt,
1 Kings 12:2
So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was a thing brought about from Yahweh, that he might establish his word, which Yahweh spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
1 Kings 12:15
Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah.
1 Kings 15:1
behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house; and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
1 Kings 16:3
For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sins with which he made Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.
1 Kings 16:26
As if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.
1 Kings 16:31
I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah for the provocation with which you have provoked me to anger, and have made Israel to sin.”
1 Kings 21:22
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, a public-domain translation.
