| Chapter
14 |
| 1 | At
that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| 12 |
Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet enter
into the city, the child shall die. |
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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. |
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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 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. |
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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. |
