1 Kings 14
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Disaster on the House of Jeroboam
1At that time Abijah son of Jeroboam became sick. # 1Kg 14:12,17-18 2Jeroboam said to his wife, “Go disguise yourself, # 1Sm 28:8; 2Sm 14:2-3 so they won’t know that you’re Jeroboam’s wife, and go to Shiloh. # Jos 18:1 Ahijah the prophet is there; it was he who told about me becoming king over this people. # 1Kg 11:29-39 3Take with you 10 loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey, # 1Sm 9:7-8 and go to him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy.”
4Jeroboam’s wife did that: she went to Shiloh and arrived at Ahijah’s house. Ahijah could not see; his gaze was fixed # Lit see, for his eyes stood ; 1Sm 4:15 due to his age. # 1Sm 3:2; 4:15 5But the Lord had said to Ahijah, “Jeroboam’s wife is coming soon to ask you about her son, for he is sick. You are to say such and such to her. When she arrives, she will be disguised.” # 2Sm 14:1-2
6When Ahijah heard the sound of her feet entering the door, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam! Why are you disguised? # 1Sm 28:12 I have bad news for you. 7Go tell Jeroboam, ‘This is what the Lord God of Israel says: I raised you up from among the people, appointed you ruler over My people Israel, 8tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to you. # 1Kg 11:28-31; 16:2 But you were not like My servant David, who kept My commands and followed Me with all of his heart, doing only what is right in My eyes. 9You behaved more wickedly than all who were before you. # 1Kg 16:25,30 In order to provoke Me, you have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and cast images, # 1Kg 11:33; 12:28-33 but you have flung Me behind your back. # Neh 9:26; Ps 50:17 10Because of all this, I am about to bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam:
I will eliminate all of Jeroboam’s males, # Lit eliminate Jeroboam’s one who urinates against the wall
both slave and free, # Hb obscure in Israel;
I will sweep away the house of Jeroboam
as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone! # 1Kg 15:29; 21:21-22
11Anyone who belongs to Jeroboam and dies in the city,
the dogs will eat,
and anyone who dies in the field,
the birds of the sky will eat, # 1Kg 16:4; 21:24
for the Lord has said it! ’
12“As for you, get up and go to your house. When your feet enter the city, the boy will die. # 1Kg 14:17 13All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He alone out of Jeroboam’s house will be put in the family tomb, because out of the house of Jeroboam the Lord God of Israel found something good only in him. # 2Ch 12:12; 19:3 14The Lord will raise up for Himself a king over Israel, who will eliminate the house of Jeroboam. # 1Kg 15:27-29 This is the day, yes, # Hb obscure even today! 15For the Lord will strike Israel and the people will shake as a reed shakes in water. He will uproot Israel from this good soil that He gave to their ancestors. # Dt 29:28 He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates # 2Kg 15:29; 17:6 because they made their Asherah poles, provoking the Lord. # Ex 34:14-15; Dt 12:3-4 16He will give up Israel because of Jeroboam’s sins that he committed and caused Israel to commit.” # 1Kg 12:28-33; 13:34; 15:30
17Then Jeroboam’s wife got up and left and went to Tirzah. # 1Kg 15:33; Sg 6:4 As she was crossing the threshold of the house, the boy died. 18He was buried, and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the Lord He had spoken through His servant Ahijah the prophet. # 1Kg 14:12-13
19As for the rest of the events of Jeroboam’s reign, how he waged war # 1Kg 14:30; 2Ch 13:2-20 and how he reigned, note that they are written in the Historical Record of Israel’s Kings. 20The length of Jeroboam’s reign was 22 years. He rested with his fathers, and his son Nadab became king in his place. # 1Kg 15:25-26
Judah’s King Rehoboam
21Now Rehoboam, Solomon’s son, reigned in Judah. # 1Kg 12:1-24 Rehoboam was 41 years old when he became king; he reigned 17 years in Jerusalem, the city where Yahweh had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to put His name. # Dt 12:5; 1Kg 9:3; 11:32,36 Rehoboam’s mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. # 2Ch 12:13
22Judah did what was evil in the Lord’s eyes. # 2Kg 17:19; 2Ch 12:1,14 They provoked Him to jealous anger # Dt 32:21 more than all that their ancestors had done with the sins they committed. 23They also built for themselves high places, # 1Kg 3:2; 12:31 sacred pillars, # Ex 23:24; Dt 16:21-22 and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree; 24there were even male cult prostitutes in the land. # Dt 23:17 They imitated all the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites. # Ex 23:24; Dt 18:9; 2Kg 16:3; 17:15; 21:2; 3Jn 11
25In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt # 1Kg 11:40 went to war against Jerusalem. # 2Ch 12:2-11 26He seized the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and the treasuries of the royal palace. He took everything. He took all the gold shields that Solomon had made. # 1Kg 10:16-17 27King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place and committed them into the care of the captains of the royal escorts # Lit the runners # 1Sm 22:17; 2Sm 15:1 who guarded the entrance to the king’s palace. 28Whenever the king entered the Lord’s temple, the royal escorts would carry the shields, then they would take them back to the royal escorts’ armory. # 1Kg 10:17
29The rest of the events of Rehoboam’s reign, # 2Ch 12:15-16 along with all his accomplishments, are written about in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings. 30There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam throughout their reigns. # 1Kg 12:21-24; 15:6 31Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. # 1Kg 14:21 His son Abijam # = Abijah in 2Ch 13 # 1Kg 15:1-8; 2Ch 11:20; 13:1–14:1 became king in his place.
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1 Kings 14
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Jeroboam's son dies
1About the same time, Abijah son of Jeroboam got sick. 2-3Jeroboam told his wife:
Disguise yourself so no one will know you're my wife, then go to Shiloh, where the prophet Ahijah lives. Take him ten loaves of bread, some small cakes, and honey, and ask him what will happen to our son. He can tell you, because he's the one who told me I would become king.
4She got ready and left for Ahijah's house in Shiloh.
Ahijah was now old and blind, 5but the LORD told him, “Jeroboam's wife is coming to ask about her son. I will tell you what to say to her.”
Jeroboam's wife came to Ahijah's house, pretending to be someone else. 6But when Ahijah heard her walking up to the door, he said:
Come in! I know you're Jeroboam's wife—why are you pretending to be someone else? I have some bad news for you. 7Give your husband this message from the LORD God of Israel: “Jeroboam, you know that I, the LORD, chose you over anyone else to be the leader of my people Israel. 8I even took David's kingdom away from his family and gave it to you. But you are not like my servant David. He always obeyed me and did what was right.
9“You have made me very angry by rejecting me and making idols out of gold. Jeroboam, you have done more evil things than any king before you.
10“Because of this, I will destroy your family by killing every man and boy in it, whether slave or free. I will wipe out your family, just as fire burns up rubbish.#1 K 15.29. 11Dogs will eat the bodies of your relatives who die in town, and vultures will eat the bodies of those who die in the country. I, the LORD, have spoken and will not change my mind!”
12That's the LORD's message to your husband. As for you, go back home, and straight after you get there, your son will die. 13Everyone in Israel will mourn at his funeral. But he will be the last one from Jeroboam's family to receive a proper burial, because he's the only one the LORD God of Israel is pleased with.
14The LORD will soon choose a new king of Israel, who will destroy Jeroboam's family. And I mean very soon.#14.14 And I mean very soon: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text. 15The people of Israel have made the LORD angry by setting up sacred poles#14.15 sacred poles: Or “trees”, used as symbols of Asherah, the goddess of fertility. for worshipping the goddess Asherah. So the LORD will punish them until they shake like grass in a stream. He will take them out of the land he gave to their ancestors, then scatter them as far away as the River Euphrates. 16Jeroboam sinned and caused the Israelites to sin. Now the LORD will desert Israel.
17Jeroboam's wife left and went back home to the town of Tirzah. As soon as she set foot in her house, her son died. 18Everyone in Israel came and mourned at his funeral, just as the LORD's servant Ahijah had said.
Jeroboam dies
19Everything else Jeroboam did while he was king, including the battles he won, is written in The History of the Kings of Israel. 20He was king of Israel for twenty-two years, then he died, and his son Nadab became king.
Kings of Judah and Israel
King Rehoboam of Judah
(2 Chronicles 11.5—12.16)
21Rehoboam son of Solomon was forty-one years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled seventeen years from Jerusalem, the city where the LORD had chosen to be worshipped. His mother Naamah was from Ammon.
22The people of Judah disobeyed the LORD and made him even angrier than their ancestors had. 23They also built their own local shrines#14.23 local shrines: See the note at 3.2. and stone images of foreign gods, and they set up sacred poles#14.23 sacred poles: See the note at 14.15. for worshipping the goddess Asherah on every hill and in the shade of large trees.#2 K 17.9,10. 24Even worse, they allowed prostitutes#14.24 prostitutes: Men and women sometimes served at the local shrines as prostitutes in the worship of Canaanite gods, but the LORD had forbidden the people of Israel to worship in this way (see Deuteronomy 23.17,18). at the shrines, and followed the disgusting customs of the foreign nations that the LORD had forced out of Canaan.#Dt 23.17.
25After Rehoboam had been king for four years, King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.#2 Ch 12.2-8. 26He took everything of value from the temple and the palace, including Solomon's gold shields.#1 K 10.16,17; 2 Ch 9.15,16.
27Rehoboam had bronze shields made to replace the gold ones, and he ordered the guards at the city gates to keep them safe. 28Whenever Rehoboam went to the LORD's temple, the guards carried the shields. But they always took them back to the guardroom as soon as he had finished.
29Everything else Rehoboam did while he was king is written in The History of the Kings of Judah. 30He and Jeroboam were constantly at war. 31Rehoboam's mother Naamah was from Ammon, but when Rehoboam died, he was buried beside his ancestors in Jerusalem.#14.31 Jerusalem: See the note at 2.10,11. His son Abijam then became king.
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