# Jeroboam Sacrificing to the Idols

- By: Jacques Ignatius de Roore (Antwerp, 1686–1747)
- Date: c. 1704 - c. 1744
- Medium: panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 53 cm x width 69 cm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-4714--a5b904e2bb5708782ba53b793f74149a)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/c3f695d097d778e76d56337bb3bc31c4.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Jeroboam, the King of Israel, enjoined his people to idolatry to prevent their contact with the Kingdom of Judah. When he tried to arrest a defiant priest during a pagan sacrifice, his hand withered and the altar shattered. He had trespassed God’s First Commandment: ‘Thou shalt have no other gods before me.’ De Roore impressed his contemporaries with such depictions of complex stories.