Chapter 14
1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick .
2 Jeroboam said to his wife , " Please get up and disguise yourself , so that you won’t be recognised as Jeroboam ’s wife . Go to Shiloh . Behold , Ahijah the prophet is there , who said that I would be king over this people .
3 Take with you ten loaves of bread , some cakes , and a jar of honey , and go to him . He will tell you what will become of the child ."
4 Jeroboam ’s wife did so , and arose and went to Shiloh , and came to Ahijah’s house . Now Ahijah could not see , for his eyes were set by reason of his age .
5 The LORD said to Ahijah, " Behold , Jeroboam ’s wife is coming to enquire of you concerning her son , for he is sick . Tell her such and such ; for it will be , when she comes in , that she will pretend to be another woman ."
6 So when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the door , he said , " Come in , Jeroboam ’s wife! Why do you pretend to be another ? For I am sent to you with heavy news .
7 Go , tell Jeroboam , ‘ The LORD , the God of Israel , says : " Because I exalted you from amongst the people , and made you prince over my people Israel ,
8 and tore the kingdom away from David ’s house , and gave it to you ; and yet you have not been as my servant David , who kept my commandments , and who followed me with all his heart , to do that only which was right in my eyes ,
9 but have done evil above all who were before you , and have gone and made for yourself other gods, molten images , to provoke me to anger , and have cast me behind your back ,
10 therefore , behold , I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam , and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates on a wall , he who is shut up and he who is left at large in Israel , and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam , as a man sweeps away dung until it is all gone .
11 The dogs will eat whoeever belongs to Jeroboam who dies in the city ; and the birds of the sky will eat whoever dies in the field , for the LORD has spoken it ."’
12 Arise therefore, and go to your house . When your feet enter into the city , the child will die .
13 All Israel will mourn for him and bury him ; for he only of Jeroboam will come to the grave , because in him there is found some good thing towards the LORD , the God of Israel , in the house of Jeroboam .
14 Moreover the LORD will raise up a king for himself over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam . This is the day ! What ? Even now .
15 For the LORD will strike Israel , as a reed is shaken in the water ; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River , because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the LORD to anger .
16 He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam , which he has sinned , and with which he has made Israel to sin ."
17 Jeroboam ’s wife arose and departed , and came to Tirzah . As she came to the threshold of the house , the child died .
18 All Israel buried him and mourned for him , according to the LORD ’s word , which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet .
19 The rest of the acts of Jeroboam , how he fought and how he reigned , behold , they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel .
20 The days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty two years ; then he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place .
21 Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah . Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign , and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem , the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel , to put his name there . His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess .
22 Judah did that which was evil in the LORD ’s sight , and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed , above all that their fathers had done .
23 For they also built for themselves high places , sacred pillars , and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree .
24 There were also sodomites in the land . They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD drove out before the children of Israel .
25 In the fifth year of King Rehoboam , Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem ;
26 and he took away the treasures of the LORD ’s house and the treasures of the king ’s house . He even took away all of it , including all the gold shields which Solomon had made .
27 King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place , and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard , who guarded the door of the king ’s house .
28 It was so , that as often as the king went into the LORD ’s house , the guard bore them , and brought them back into the guard room .
29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam , and all that he did , aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah ?
30 There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually .
31 Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David ’s city . His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess . Abijam his son reigned in his place .