So He will give Israel over on account of the sins Jeroboam has committed and has caused Israel to commit.”
When those that set up idols, and keep them up, go to enquire of the Lord, he determines to answer them, not according to the pretensions of their enquiry, but according to the multitude of their idols, Eze 14:4. So Jeroboam is answered here. I. The prophet anticipates the enquiry concerning the child, and foretels the ruin of Jeroboam's house for the wickedness of it.
Commenting on 1 Kings 14:7-20
And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, Upon this speech of the prophet's to her: and came to Tirzah; where Jeroboam now had his court, and where their son now was; it was a royal city in the time of the Canaanites, and is commonly placed in the tribe of Manasseh, and was a very pleasant one, as its name signifies, to which there is an...
And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin. (n) The people will not be excused when they do evil at the commandment of their governors.