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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3 Kings 14
14
1At that time Abia the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
2And Jeroboam said to his wife: Arise, and change thy dress, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam. And go to Silo, where Ahias the prophet is, who told me, that I should reign over this people.
3Take also with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a pot of honey; and go to him: for he will tell thee what shall become of this child.
4Jeroboam's wife did as he told her: and rising up went to Silo, and came to the house of Ahias: but he could not see, for his eyes were dim by reason of his age.
5And the Lord said to Ahias: Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh in, to consult thee concerning her son that is sick. Thus and thus shalt thou speak to her. So when she was coming in, and made as if she were another woman,
6Ahias heard the sound of her feet coming in at the door, and said: Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam. Why dost thou feign thyself to be another? But I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.
7Go, and tell Jeroboam: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel:
8And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to thee: and thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and followed me with all his heart, doing that which was well pleasing in my sight:
9But hast done evil above all that were before thee, and hast made thee strange gods and molten gods, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:
10Therefore, behold, I will bring evils upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up, and the last in Israel. And I will sweep away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as dung is swept away till all be clean.
11Them that shall die of Jeroboam in the city the dogs shall eat: and them that shall die in the field the birds of the air shall devour: for the Lord hath spoken it.
12Arise thou therefore, and go to thy house. And when thy feet shall be entering into the city, the child shall die.
13And all Israel shall mourn for him, and shall bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall be laid in a sepulchre, because in his regard there is found a good word from the Lord the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.
14And the Lord hath appointed himself a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam in this day, and in this time.
15And the Lord God shall strike 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 to themselves groves, to provoke the Lord.
16And the Lord shall give up Israel for the sins of Jeroboam, who hath sinned, and made Israel to sin.
17And the wife of Jeroboam arose, and departed, and came to Thersa. And when she was coming in to the threshold of the house, the child died.
18And they buried him. And all Israel mourned for him according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke by the hand of his servant Ahias the prophet.
19And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought, and how he reigned, behold they are written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel.
20And the days that Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years. And he slept with his fathers: and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
21And Roboam the son of Solomon reigned in Juda. Roboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem the city, which the Lord chose out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naama an Ammonitess.
22And Juda did evil in the sight of the Lord, and provoked him above all that their fathers had done, in their sins which they committed.
23For they also built them altars, and statues, and groves upon every high hill and under every green tree.
24There were also the effeminate in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the people whom the Lord had destroyed before the face of the children of Israel.
25And in the fifth year of the reign of Roboam, Sesac king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.
26And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the king's treasures, and carried all off: as also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
27And Roboam made shields of brass instead of them, and delivered them into the hand of the captains of the shieldbearers, and of them that kept watch before the gate of the king's house.
28And when the king went into the house of the Lord, they whose office it was to go before him carried them: and afterwards they brought them back to the armoury of the shieldbearers.
29Now the rest of the acts of Roboam, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda.
30And there was war between Roboam and Jeroboam always.
31And Roboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David: and his mother's name was Naama an Ammonitess. And Abiam his son reigned in his stead.
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