“1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. 2 And Jeroboam
said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be
not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold,
there [is] Ahijah the prophet, which told me that [I should be] king
over this people. 3 And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a
cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of
the child. 4 And Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh,
and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes
were set by reason of his age. 5 And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold,
the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he
[is] sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when
she cometh in, that she shall feign herself [to be] another [woman]. 6
And it was [so], when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in
at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest
thou thyself [to be] another? for I [am] sent to thee [with] heavy
[tidings].”
“7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as
I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my
people Israel, 8 And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and
gave it thee: and [yet] thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept
my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do [that]
only [which was] right in mine eyes; 9 But hast done evil above all that
were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and
molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:
10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and
will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, [and] him
that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of
the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.
11 Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him
that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD
hath spoken [it]. 12 Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house:
[and] when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die. 13 And all
Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall
come to the grave, because in him there is found [some] good thing
toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam. 14 Moreover the
LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house
of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now. 15 For the LORD shall smite
Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel
out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter
them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking
the LORD to anger. 16 And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of
Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin. 17 And Jeroboam’s
wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: [and] when she came to the
threshold of the door, the child died; 18 And they buried him; and all
Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he
spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet. 19 And the rest of
the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they
[are] written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. 20
And the days which Jeroboam reigned [were] two and twenty years: and he
slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.”
“21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam [was]
forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen
years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the
tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother’s name [was]
Naamah an Ammonitess. 22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD,
and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had
committed, above all that their fathers had done. 23 For they also built
them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under
every green tree. 24 And there were also sodomites in the land: [and]
they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD
cast out before the children of Israel. 25 And it came to pass in the
fifth year of king Rehoboam, [that] Shishak king of Egypt came up
against Jerusalem: 26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the
LORD, and the treasures of the king’s house; he even took away all: and
he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made. 27 And king
Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed [them] unto
the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king’s
house. 28 And it was [so], when the king went into the house of the
LORD, that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard
chamber. 29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did,
[are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah? 30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all [their]
days. 31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David. And his mother’s name [was] Naamah an
Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.” (1 Kings 14:1-31
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