1Sa 15:28, 1Ki 11:29-31, Zec 5:3-4 | ESV | STEP | And Samuel said to him, The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.

1 Samuel 15:28

28 And Samuel said to him, ^a“The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.

1 Kings 11:29-31

29 And at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet ^bAhijah the Shilonite found him on the road. Now Ahijah had dressed himself in a new garment, and the two of them were alone in the open country. 30 Then Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, ^cand tore it into twelve pieces. 31 And he said to Jeroboam, “Take for yourself ten pieces, for thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, ^dI am about to tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon and will give you ten tribes

Zechariah 5:3-4

3 Then he said to me, “This is ^ethe curse that goes out over the face of the whole land. For everyone who ^fsteals shall be cleaned out according to what is on one side, and everyone who ^gswears falsely ^{▼▼Hebrew lacks falsely (supplied from verse 4)} shall be cleaned out according to what is on the other side. 4 I will send it out, declares the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of ⁱhim who swears falsely by my name. And ^jit shall remain in his house and ^kconsume it, both timber and stones.”