1 Kings 15:31
Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
The verse closes the account of Nadab son of Jeroboam, who reigned only two years after Jeroboam. His tragic death brought Jeroboam's dynasty to an end in fulfillment of Ahijah's prophecy against the house of Jeroboam. It belongs to the portion of 1 Kings after the first eleven chapters that gives the history of the kings after the division of the kingdom into Israel and Judah. That history is carried through the remainder of 1 Kings and the whole of 2 Kings, while the books of Chronicles repeat the history of the same period but give no further account of the wicked kingdom of Israel to which Nadab belonged.
It belongs to the record of the divided kingdom, with ten tribes in Israel and two and a half tribes in Judah and war and strife between the two divisions. It belongs to the history of the two separate kingdoms of Judah and Israel for about eighty years, from the revolt of the ten tribes to the death of Jehoshaphat, comprising the reigns of several kings both of Judah and Israel. Nadab reigned in Israel while Abijah and then Asa reigned in Judah. His reign fell inside the one long good reign of Asa, who came to the throne two years before the death of Jeroboam and spanned all these wicked kings of Israel.
It stands about fifty years after the division of the kingdom in Israel's steady going from bad to worse from Jeroboam, who made Israel to sin, toward Omri and toward Ahab's wicked rule. It stands in the succession of kings of Israel that includes Baasha and Elah and Zimri and Omri and the wicked Ahab. That succession led to Baasha's house, which lasted only two generations, before Omri's strong but wicked reign and Ahab's weak, wicked reign under the influence of Jezebel. Its pattern of a brief two-year reign ended by violent hands, with the murderer destroying the king's house and taking the throne, was later repeated by Elah.
It belongs to the account in 1 Kings 15 and 16 of the apostasy of Israel, in which the nation was led by her kings to forsake the worship of the living God and turn to the worship of idols. They turned away from the God-given plan of worship which pointed to Christ and revealed the way of salvation from sin. They forsook all that was pure and true and uplifting and turned to the impure, untrue, and degrading worship of Baal and Ashtoreth, to the worship of the creature instead of the Creator.