The First Book of Kings (WEB)
14: 1At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. 14:2Jeroboam said to his wife, Please get up
and disguise yourself, that you not be known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get you to Shiloh:
behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, who spoke concerning me that I should be king over this
people. 14:3Take with you ten loaves, and cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him: he will tell you
what shall become of the child. 14:4Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came
to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.
14:5Yahweh said to Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam comes to inquire of you concerning her
son; for he is sick: thus and thus shall you tell her; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will
feign herself to be another woman. 14:6It was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she
came in at the door, that he said, Come in, you wife of Jeroboam; why feign you yourself to be
another? for I am sent to you with heavy news. 14:7Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus says Yahweh, the God
of Israel: Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you prince over my people
Israel, 14:8and tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it 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, 14:9but have done evil above all who were before
you, and have gone and made you other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and
have cast me behind your back: 14:10therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam,
and will cut off from Jeroboam every man-child, him who is shut up and him who is left at large
in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung, until it
be all gone. 14:11Him who dies of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him who dies in the
field shall the birds of the sky eat: for Yahweh has spoken it. 14:12Arise you therefore, get you to
your house: and when your feet enter into the city, the child shall die. 14:13All Israel shall mourn for
him, and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found
some good thing toward Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam. 14:14Moreover
Yahweh will raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but
what? even now. 14:15For Yahweh 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 Asherim, provoking Yahweh to anger. 14:16He will give
Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel
to sin. 14:17Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and as she came to the
threshold of the house, the child died. 14:18All Israel buried him, and mourned for him, according to
the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet. 14:19The rest of the acts of
Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel. 14:20The days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years:
and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place. 14:21Rehoboam 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 Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of
Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. 14:22Judah did
that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins
which they committed, above all that their fathers had done. 14:23For they also built them high
places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree; 14:24and there were
also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which
Yahweh drove out before the children of Israel. 14:25It happened in the fifth year of king Rehoboam,
that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem; 14:26and he took away the treasures of the
house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away
all the shields of gold which Solomon had made. 14:27King Rehoboam made in their place shields
of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the
king's house. 14:28It was so, that as often as the king went into the house of Yahweh, the guard bore
them, and brought them back into the guard-chamber. 14:29Now 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? 14:30There
was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. 14:31Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and
was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and his mother's name was Naamah the
Ammonitess. Abijam his son reigned in his place.
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