| 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, who spake concerning me that I should be king
over this people. 3 And take with thee ten loaves, and cakes, and a cruse
of honey, and go to him: he will 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. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by
reason of his age. 5 And Jehovah said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of
Jeroboam cometh to inquire of thee concerning her son; for he is sick: thus
and thus shalt thou say unto her; for it will be, when she cometh in, that
she will 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 Jehovah, the 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, and 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 every man-child, him that
is shut up and him that is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep
away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweepeth 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 birds of the heavens eat: for Jehovah hath
spoken it. 12 Arise thou therefore, get thee to thy 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 Jehovah, the God
of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam. 14 Moreover Jehovah will raise him up
a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but
what? even now. 15 For Jehovah will smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in
the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to
their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made
their Asherim, provoking Jehovah to anger. 16 And he will give Israel up
because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he hath sinned, and wherewith he hath
made Israel to sin.
17 And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah:
and as she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.
18 And all Israel buried him, and mourned for him, according to the word
of Jehovah, which he spake by 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 Jehovah had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel,
to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
22 And Judah did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and they
provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that
their fathers had done. 23 For they also built them high places, and
pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
24 and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all
the abominations of the nations which Jehovah drove 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 Jehovah, 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 shields of brass, and committed
them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the
king's house. 28 And it was so, that, as oft as the king went into the
house of Jehovah, 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 continually. 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 the Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in
his stead.
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