1 Kings 14
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Judgment for Jeroboam Continues
1At that time, Abijah son of Jeroboam became ill. 2Jeroboam said to his wife, “Please get up and disguise yourself so that they will not know that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh. Look, Ahijah the prophet is there, and he spoke concerning me before I became king over this people. 3You must take ten loaves of bread in your hand and cakes and a jar of honey, and you must go to him. He shall tell you what will happen to the boy.” 4The wife of Jeroboam did so. She got up, went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah was not able to see, for his eyes were fixed#Literally “his eyes stood” because of his old age. 5Then Yahweh said to Ahijah, “Look, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to seek a word from you about her son, for he is ill. Thus and so#Literally “As this and as this” you shall say to her. When she comes, she will be disguising herself.” 6It happened at the moment Ahijah heard the sound of her footsteps coming through the doorway, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why are you making yourself unrecognizable? I have been sent a hard message for you: 7Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel: “Because I raised you from the midst of the people and I made you leader over my people Israel, 8I tore the kingdom from the house of David and I gave it to you. But you were not like my servant David who kept my commandments, and who went after me with all his heart, to do only what is right in my eyes. 9But you did more evil than all who were before you. You have gone and made for yourself other gods and molten idols to provoke me, but me you have completely disregarded.#Literally “hurled behind your back” 10Therefore, look, I am about to bring disaster upon the house of Jeroboam, and I will cut off males#Literally “those who urinate against a wall” from Jeroboam, bond or free, in Israel. I will burn after the house of Jeroboam as one burns after the manure, until it is finished. 11He who dies for Jeroboam in the city, the dogs will eat. He who dies in the open field, the birds from the heavens will eat, for Yahweh has spoken it.” ’ 12As for you, get up. Go to your house. When your feet enter the city, the child will die. 13All of Israel will mourn for him, and they will bury him. This one alone will come to a tomb for Jeroboam, because a good thing has been found in him by Yahweh the God of Israel in the house of Israel. 14Yahweh will raise up a king for himself over Israel who will even now cut off the house of Jeroboam this day. 15Yahweh will strike Israel as one shakes the reed plant in the water, and he will root Israel up from this good land that he gave to their ancestors.#Or “fathers” He will scatter them beyond the River#That is, the Euphrates because they have made their sacred poles which are provoking Yahweh. 16He will give up Israel because of the sin of Jeroboam which he sinned and which he caused Israel to sin.”
17Then the wife of Jeroboam got up, went, and came to Tirzah. As she was coming to the threshold of the house, the boy died. 18They buried him and all of Israel mourned for him, according to the word of Yahweh which he had spoken by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet. 19The remainder of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel. 20The days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty-two years, and he slept with his ancestors.#Or “fathers” Then Nadab his son became king in place of him.
Rehoboam Reigns in Judah
21Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which, from all of the tribes of Israel, Yahweh chose to place his name. And the name of his mother was Naamah the Ammonitess. 22But Judah did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and they annoyed him more than their fathers#Or “ancestors” did with their sins that they had committed. 23They also built for themselves high places and stone pillars and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree. 24There were also male shrine prostitutes in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh had driven out from before the Israelites.#Literally “sons/children of Israel”
Pharaoh Shishak of Egypt Raids Jerusalem
25It happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, 26and he took the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and he took all the treasures of the king’s house. He took the small gold shields that Solomon had made, 27so King Rehoboam made small copper shields in place of them and entrusted them#Literally “he assigned on the hand” to the commanders of the royal guard who keep the doorway of the king’s house. 28Whenever the king came to the house of Yahweh, the royal guard carried them and brought them back to the alcove room of the royal guard. 29The remainder of the acts of Rehoboam and all that he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? 30There was always war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam. 31Then Rehoboam slept with his ancestors,#Or “fathers” and he was buried with his ancestors#Or “fathers” in the city of David. The name of his mother was Naamah the Ammonitess. Abijam his son became king in his place.
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3 Kings 14
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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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