1 Kings 14
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The Death of Jeroboam's Son
1At that time King Jeroboam's son Abijah fell ill. 2Jeroboam said to his wife, “Disguise yourself so that no one will recognize you, and go to Shiloh, where the prophet Ahijah lives, the one who said I would be king of Israel. 3Take him ten loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey. Ask him what is going to happen to our son, and he will tell you.”
4So she went to Ahijah's home in Shiloh. Old age had made Ahijah blind. 5The LORD had told him that Jeroboam's wife was coming to ask him about her son, who was ill. And the LORD told Ahijah what to say.
When Jeroboam's wife arrived, she pretended to be someone else. 6But when Ahijah heard her coming in the door, he said, “Come in. I know you are Jeroboam's wife. Why are you pretending to be someone else? I have bad news for you. 7Go and tell Jeroboam that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to him: ‘I chose you from among the people and made you the ruler of my people Israel. 8I took the kingdom away from David's descendants and gave it to you. But you have not been like my servant David, who was completely loyal to me, obeyed my commands, and did only what I approve of. 9You have committed far greater sins than those who ruled before you. You have rejected me and have aroused my anger by making idols and metal images to worship. 10#1 Kgs 15.29Because of this I will bring disaster on your dynasty and will kill all your male descendants, young and old alike. I will get rid of your family; they will be swept away like dung. 11Any members of your family who die in the city will be eaten by dogs, and any who die in the open country will be eaten by vultures. I, the LORD, have spoken.’ ”
12And Ahijah went on to say to Jeroboam's wife, “Now go back home. As soon as you enter the town your son will die. 13All the people of Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He will be the only member of Jeroboam's family who will be properly buried, because he is the only one with whom the LORD, the God of Israel, is pleased. 14The LORD is going to place a king over Israel who will put an end to Jeroboam's dynasty.#14.14 Hebrew has five additional words, the meaning of which is unclear. 15The LORD will punish Israel, and she will shake like a reed shaking in a stream. He will uproot the people of Israel from this good land which he gave to their ancestors, and he will scatter them beyond the River Euphrates, because they have aroused his anger by making idols of the goddess Asherah. 16The LORD will abandon Israel because Jeroboam sinned and led the people of Israel into sin.”
17Jeroboam's wife went back to Tirzah. Just as she entered her home, the child died. 18The people of Israel mourned for him and buried him, as the LORD had said through his servant, the prophet Ahijah.
The Death of Jeroboam
19Everything else that King Jeroboam did, the wars he fought and how he ruled, are all recorded in The History of the Kings of Israel. 20Jeroboam ruled as king for 22 years. He died and was buried, and his son Nadab succeeded him as king.
King Rehoboam of Judah
(2 Chr 11.5—12.15)
21Solomon's son Rehoboam was 41 years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen from all the territory of Israel as the place where he was to be worshipped. Rehoboam's mother was Naamah from Ammon.
22The people of Judah sinned against the LORD and did more to arouse his anger against them than all their ancestors had done. 23#2 Kgs 17.9–10They built places of worship for false gods, and put up stone pillars and symbols of Asherah to worship on the hills and under shady trees. 24#Deut 23.17Worst of all, there were men and women who served as prostitutes at those pagan places of worship. The people of Judah practised all the shameful things done by the people whom the LORD had driven out of the land as the Israelites advanced into the country.
25In the fifth year of Rehoboam's reign King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem. 26#1 Kgs 10.16–17; 2 Chr 9.15–16He took away all the treasures in the Temple and in the palace, including the gold shields Solomon had made. 27To replace them, King Rehoboam made bronze shields and entrusted them to the officers responsible for guarding the palace gates. 28Every time the king went to the Temple, the guards carried the shields, and then returned them to the guardroom.
29Everything else that King Rehoboam did is recorded in The History of the Kings of Judah. 30During all this time Rehoboam and Jeroboam were constantly at war with each other. 31Rehoboam died and was buried in the royal tombs in David's City, and his son Abijah succeeded him as king.
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I Kings 14
14
Judgment on the House of Jeroboam
1At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick. 2And 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 prophet is there, who told me that #1 Kin. 11:29–31I would be king over this people. 3#1 Sam. 9:7, 8; 1 Kin. 13:7; 2 Kin. 4:42Also take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him; he will tell you what will become of the child.” 4And Jeroboam’s wife did so; she arose #1 Kin. 11:29and 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.
5Now the Lord had said to Ahijah, “Here is the wife of Jeroboam, coming to ask you something about her son, for he is sick. Thus and thus you shall say to her; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will pretend to be another woman.”
6And 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 pretend to be another person? For I have been sent to you with bad news. 7Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Thus says the Lord God of Israel: #2 Sam. 12:7, 8; 1 Kin. 16:2“Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you ruler over My people Israel, 8and #1 Kin. 11:31tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to you; and yet you have not been as My servant David, #1 Kin. 11:33, 38; 15:5who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only what was right in My eyes; 9but you have done more evil than all who were before you, #1 Kin. 12:28; 2 Chr. 11:15for you have gone and made for yourself other gods and molded images to provoke Me to anger, and #2 Chr. 29:6; Neh. 9:26; Ps. 50:17have cast Me behind your back— 10therefore behold! #1 Kin. 15:29I will bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam, and #1 Kin. 21:21; 2 Kin. 9:8will cut off from Jeroboam every male in Israel, #Deut. 32:36; 2 Kin. 14:26bond and free; I will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as one takes away refuse until it is all gone. 11The dogs shall eat #1 Kin. 16:4; 21:24whoever belongs to Jeroboam and dies in the city, and the birds of the air shall eat whoever dies in the field; for the Lord has spoken!” ’ 12Arise therefore, go to your own house. #1 Kin. 14:17When your feet enter the city, the child shall die. 13And 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 him #2 Chr. 12:12; 19:3there is found something good toward the Lord God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
14#1 Kin. 15:27–29“Moreover the Lord will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam; this is the day. What? Even now! 15For the Lord will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water. He will #Deut. 29:28; 2 Kin. 17:6; Ps. 52:5uproot Israel from this #(Josh. 23:15, 16)good land which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them #2 Kin. 15:29beyond the River, #(Ex. 34:13, 14; Deut. 12:3)because they have made their wooden images, provoking the Lord to anger. 16And He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, #1 Kin. 12:30; 13:34; 15:30, 34; 16:2who sinned and who made Israel sin.”
17Then Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed, and came to #1 Kin. 15:21, 33; 16:6, 8, 15, 23; Song 6:4Tirzah. #1 Kin. 14:12When she came to the threshold of the house, the child died. 18And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, #1 Kin. 14:13according to the word of the Lord which He spoke through His servant Ahijah the prophet.
Death of Jeroboam
19Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he #1 Kin. 14:30; 2 Chr. 13:2–20made war and how he reigned, indeed they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. 20The period that Jeroboam reigned was twenty-two years. So he rested with his fathers. #1 Kin. 15:25Then Nadab his son reigned in his place.
Rehoboam Reigns in Judah
21And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. #2 Chr. 12:13Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king. He reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city #1 Kin. 11:32, 36which the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. #1 Kin. 14:31His mother’s name was Naamah, an Ammonitess. 22#2 Chr. 12:1, 14Now Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they #Deut. 32:21; Ps. 78:58; 1 Cor. 10:22provoked Him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, more than all that their fathers had done. 23For they also built for themselves #Deut. 12:2; Ezek. 16:24, 25high places, #(Deut. 16:22)sacred pillars, and #(2 Kin. 17:9, 10)wooden images on every high hill and #Is. 57:5; Jer. 2:20under every green tree. 24#Gen. 19:5; Deut. 23:17; 1 Kin. 15:12; 22:46; 2 Kin. 23:7And there were also perverted persons in the land. They did according to all the #Deut. 20:18abominations of the nations which the Lord had cast out before the children of #(Deut. 9:4, 5)Israel.
25#1 Kin. 11:40; 2 Chr. 12:2It happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. 26#1 Kin. 15:18; 2 Chr. 12:9–11And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s house; he took away everything. He also took away all the gold shields #1 Kin. 10:17which Solomon had made. 27Then King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who guarded the doorway of the king’s house. 28And whenever the king entered the house of the Lord, the guards carried them, then brought them back into the guardroom.
29#2 Chr. 12:15, 16Now 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? 30And there was #1 Kin. 12:21–24; 15:6war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days. 31#2 Chr. 12:16So Rehoboam rested with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the City of David. #1 Kin. 14:21His mother’s name was Naamah, an Ammonitess. Then #2 Chr. 12:16Abijam his son reigned in his place.
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