1 Kings 14
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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.
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