Verses 25-32
6. Nadab’s evil reign in Israel 15:25-32
Nadab ruled Israel from 910-909 B.C. Evidently Baasha assassinated him during a battle with the Philistines. Gibbethon stood three miles west of Solomon’s stronghold city of Gezer near the border where Israel, Philistia, and Judah met. Baasha not only killed Nadab but also all of Jeroboam’s male descendants (1 Kings 15:29). This was a fulfillment of Ahijah’s prophecy that God would cut off Jeroboam’s dynasty (1 Kings 14:14).
"Nothing is more characteristic of the northern state than its extreme internal instability." [Note: Bright, p. 218.]
The writer of Kings noted carefully the prophecies of the blessings and curses on the kings because of their obedience or disobedience to Yahweh’s authority. This is one of the major motifs in Kings. [Note: See Ziony Zevit, "Deuteronomistic Historiography in 1 Kings 12 -2 Kings 17 and the Reinvestiture of the Israelian Cult," Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 32 (1985):57-73.]
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