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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="1KI.13.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Even after this, Jeroboam did not change his evil ways, but once more appointed priests for the high places from all sorts of people. Anyone who wanted to become a priest he consecrated for the high places. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="1KI.13.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">This was the sin of the house of Jeroboam that led to its downfall and to its destruction from the face of the earth.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">14</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Ahijah&#8217;s Prophecy Against Jeroboam</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1KI.14.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">At that time Abijah son of Jeroboam became ill, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1KI.14.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">and Jeroboam said to his wife, &#8220;Go, disguise yourself, so you won&#8217;t be recognized as the wife of Jeroboam. Then go to Shiloh. Ahijah the prophet is there&#8212;the one who told me I would be king over this people. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1KI.14.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Take ten loaves of bread with you, some cakes and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1KI.14.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So Jeroboam&#8217;s wife did what he said and went to Ahijah&#8217;s house in Shiloh.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1KI.14.4"><span class="content">Now Ahijah could not see; his sight was gone because of his age. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1KI.14.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had told Ahijah, &#8220;Jeroboam&#8217;s wife is coming to ask you about her son, for he is ill, and you are to give her such and such an answer. When she arrives, she will pretend to be someone else.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1KI.14.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1KI.14.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So when Ahijah heard the sound of her footsteps at the door, he said, &#8220;Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why this pretense? I have been sent to you with bad news. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1KI.14.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Go, tell Jeroboam that this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, says: &#8216;I raised you up from among the people and appointed you ruler over my people Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1KI.14.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you, but you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commands and followed me with all his heart, doing only what was right in my eyes. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1KI.14.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">You have done more evil than all who lived before you. You have made for yourself other gods, idols made of metal; you have aroused my anger and turned your back on me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1KI.14.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1KI.14.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Because of this, I am going to bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam. I will cut off from Jeroboam every last male in Israel&#8212;slave or free.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Israel&#8212;every ruler or leader</span></span></span><span class="content"> I will burn up the house of Jeroboam as one burns dung, until it is all gone. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1KI.14.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Dogs will eat those belonging to Jeroboam who die in the city, and the birds will feed on those who die in the country. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has spoken!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1KI.14.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1KI.14.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;As for you, go back home. When you set foot in your city, the boy will die. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1KI.14.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will be buried, because he is the only one in the house of Jeroboam in whom the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, has found anything good.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1KI.14.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1KI.14.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will raise up for himself a king over Israel who will cut off the family of Jeroboam. Even now this is beginning to happen.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:14 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1KI.14.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will strike Israel, so that it will be like a reed swaying in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that he gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they aroused the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s anger by making Asherah poles.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:15 </span><span class="ft">That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah; here and elsewhere in 1 Kings</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1KI.14.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And he will give Israel up because of the sins Jeroboam has committed and has caused Israel to commit.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1KI.14.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1KI.14.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then Jeroboam&#8217;s wife got up and left and went to Tirzah. As soon as she stepped over the threshold of the house, the boy died. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1KI.14.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They buried him, and all Israel mourned for him, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had said through his servant the prophet Ahijah.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1KI.14.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1KI.14.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The other events of Jeroboam&#8217;s reign, his wars and how he ruled, are written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1KI.14.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">He reigned for twenty-two years and then rested with his ancestors. And Nadab his son succeeded him as king.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Rehoboam King of Judah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1KI.14.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1KI.14.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Rehoboam son of Solomon was king in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel in which to put his Name. His mother&#8217;s name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1KI.14.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1KI.14.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Judah did evil in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. By the sins they committed they stirred up his jealous anger more than those who were before them had done. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1KI.14.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">They also set up for themselves high places, sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1KI.14.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land; the people engaged in all the detestable practices of the nations the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had driven out before the Israelites.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1KI.14.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1KI.14.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1KI.14.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">He carried off the treasures of the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and the treasures of the royal palace. He took everything, including all the gold shields Solomon had made. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1KI.14.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned these to the commanders of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1KI.14.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Whenever the king went to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s temple, the guards bore the shields, and afterward they returned them to the guardroom.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1KI.14.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="1KI.14.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">As for the other events of Rehoboam&#8217;s reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah? </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="1KI.14.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">There was continual warfare between Rehoboam and Jeroboam. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="1KI.14.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">And Rehoboam rested with his ancestors and was buried with them in the City of David. His mother&#8217;s name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite. And Abijah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:31 </span><span class="ft">Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint (see also 2 Chron. 12:16); most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Abijam</span></span></span><span class="content"> his son succeeded him as king.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch15" data-usfm="1KI.15.1">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1KI.15.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:1 </span><span class="ft">Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint (see also 2 Chron. 12:16); most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Abijam</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 7 and 8</span></span></span><span class="content"> became king of Judah, </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch15" data-usfm="1KI.15.2">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1KI.15.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother&#8217;s name was Maakah daughter of Abishalom.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:2 </span><span class="ft">A variant of </span><span class="fqa">Absalom</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 10</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1KI.15.2"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch15" data-usfm="1KI.15.3">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1KI.15.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He committed all the sins his father had done before him; his heart was not fully devoted to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> his God, as the heart of David his forefather had been. </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch15" data-usfm="1KI.15.4">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1KI.15.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Nevertheless, for David&#8217;s sake the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him and by making Jerusalem strong. </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch15" data-usfm="1KI.15.5">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1KI.15.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For David had done what was right in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and had not failed to keep any of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s commands all the days of his life&#8212;except in the case of Uriah the Hittite.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1KI.15.5"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
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        <div class="chapter ch15" data-usfm="1KI.15.6">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1KI.15.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">There was war between Abijah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:6 </span><span class="ft">Some Hebrew manuscripts and Syriac </span><span class="fqa">Abijam </span><span class="ft">(that is, Abijah); most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Rehoboam</span></span></span><span class="content"> and Jeroboam throughout Abijah&#8217;s lifetime. </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch15" data-usfm="1KI.15.7">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1KI.15.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">As for the other events of Abijah&#8217;s reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah? There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam. </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch15" data-usfm="1KI.15.8">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1KI.15.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And Abijah rested with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David. And Asa his son succeeded him as king.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1KI.15.8"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch15" data-usfm="1KI.15.9">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1KI.15.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa became king of Judah, </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch15" data-usfm="1KI.15.10">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1KI.15.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and he reigned in Jerusalem forty-one years. His grandmother&#8217;s name was Maakah daughter of Abishalom.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1KI.15.10"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch15" data-usfm="1KI.15.11">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1KI.15.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Asa did what was right in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, as his father David had done. </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch15" data-usfm="1KI.15.12">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1KI.15.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He expelled the male shrine prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the idols his ancestors had made. </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch15" data-usfm="1KI.15.13">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1KI.15.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He even deposed his grandmother Maakah from her position as queen mother, because she had made a repulsive image for the worship of Asherah. Asa cut it down and burned it in the Kidron Valley. </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch15" data-usfm="1KI.15.14">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1KI.15.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Although he did not remove the high places, Asa&#8217;s heart was fully committed to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> all his life. </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch15" data-usfm="1KI.15.15">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1KI.15.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He brought into the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> the silver and gold and the articles that he and his father had dedicated.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1KI.15.15"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch15" data-usfm="1KI.15.16">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1KI.15.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel throughout their reigns. </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch15" data-usfm="1KI.15.17">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1KI.15.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and fortified Ramah to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the territory of Asa king of Judah.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1KI.15.17"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch15" data-usfm="1KI.15.18">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1KI.15.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Asa then took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s temple and of his own palace. He entrusted it to his officials and sent them to Ben-Hadad son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, the king of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus. </span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bk1KI">
        <div class="chapter ch15" data-usfm="1KI.15.19">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1KI.15.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;Let there be a treaty between me and you,&#8221; he said, &#8220;as there was between my father and your father. See, I am sending you a gift of silver and gold. Now break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel so he will withdraw from me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1KI.15.19"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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