Judgment on the House of Jeroboam
1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick.
2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, “Please arise, and disguise yourself, that they may not recognize you as the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh. Indeed, Ahijah the prophetisthere, who told me thatIwouldbeking over this people.
3 Also take with you ten loaves,somecakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him; he will tell you what will become of the child.”
4 And Jeroboam’s wife did so; she aroseand went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were glazed by reason of his age.
5 Now theLordhad said to Ahijah, “Here is the wife of Jeroboam, coming to ask you something about her son, for heissick. Thus and thus you shall say to her; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will pretendtobeanotherwoman.”
6 And so it was, when Ahijah heard the sound of her footsteps as she came through the door, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why do you pretendtobeanotherperson?For Ihavebeensent to youwithbadnews.
7 Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Thus says theLordGod of Israel:“Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you ruler over My people Israel,
8 andtore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to you; andyetyou have not been as My servant David,who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do onlywhatwasright in My eyes;
9 but you have done more evil than all who were before you,for you have gone and made for yourself other gods and molded images to provoke Me to anger, andhave cast Me behind your back—
10 therefore behold!I will bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam, andwill cut off from Jeroboam every male in Israel,bond and free; I will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as one takes away refuse until it is all gone.
11 The dogs shall eatwhoever belongs to Jeroboam and dies in the city, and the birds of the air shall eat whoever dies in the field; for theLordhas spoken!” ’
12 Arise therefore, go to your own house.When your feet enter the city, the child shall die.
13 And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he is the only one of Jeroboam who shall come to the grave, because in himthere is found something good toward theLordGod of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
14 “Moreover theLordwill raise up for Himself a king over Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam; this is the day. What? Even now!
15 For theLordwill strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water. He willuproot Israel from thisgood land which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter thembeyond the River,because they have made their wooden images, provoking theLordto anger.
16 And He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam,who sinned and who made Israel sin.”
17 Then Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed, and came toTirzah.When she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.
18 And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him,according to the word of theLordwhich He spoke through His servant Ahijah the prophet.
Death of Jeroboam
19 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how hemade war and how he reigned, indeed theyarewritten in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
20 The period that Jeroboam reignedwastwenty-two years. So he rested with his fathers.Then Nadab his son reigned in his place.
Rehoboam Reigns in Judah
21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah.Rehoboamwasforty-one years old when he became king. He reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the citywhich theLordhad chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there.His mother’s namewasNaamah, an Ammonitess.
22 Now Judah did evil in the sight of theLord, and theyprovoked Him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, more than all that their fathers had done.
23 For they also built for themselveshigh places,sacredpillars, andwooden images on every high hill andunder every green tree.
24 And there were also perverted persons in the land. They did according to all theabominations of the nations which theLordhad cast out before the children ofIsrael.
25 It happened in the fifth year of King RehoboamthatShishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.
26 And he took away the treasures of the house of theLordand the treasures of the king’s house; he took away everything. He also took away all the gold shieldswhich Solomon had made.
27 Then King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place, and committedthemto the hands of the captains of the guard, who guarded the doorway of the king’s house.
28 And whenever the king entered the house of theLord, the guards carried them, then brought them back into the guardroom.
29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did,arethey not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
30 And there waswar between Rehoboam and Jeroboam alltheirdays.
31 So Rehoboam rested with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the City of David.His mother’s namewasNaamah, an Ammonitess. ThenAbijam his son reigned in his place.