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| 14:1 | At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. |
| 14:2 | 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. |
| 14:3 | 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. |
| 14:4 | 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. |
| 14:5 | 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. |
| 14:6 | 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. |
| 14:7 | 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, |
| 14:8 | 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; |
| 14:9 | 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: |
| 14:10 | 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. |
| 14:11 | 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. |
| 14:12 | Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house:
and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall
die. |
| 14:13 | 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. |
| 14:14 | 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. |
| 14:15 | 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. |
| 14:16 | And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of
Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin. |
| 14:17 | And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to
Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door,
the child died; |
| 14:18 | 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. |
| 14:19 | 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. |
| 14:20 | 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. |
| 14:21 | 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. |
| 14:22 | 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. |
| 14:23 | For they also built them high places, and images, and
groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. |
| 14:24 | 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. |
| 14:25 | And it came to pass in the fifth year of king
Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against
Jerusalem: |
| 14:26 | 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. |
| 14:27 | 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. |
| 14:28 | 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. |
| 14:29 | 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? |
| 14:30 | And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all
their days. |
| 14:31 | 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. |