1 Kings 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. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
brasen 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.