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Chapter 14 |
| 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. |
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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.
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| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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| 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; |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 brazen 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. |
