1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
2 And
Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou
be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah
the prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people.
3 And
take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him:
he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.
4 And
Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of
Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.
5 And
the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing
of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say
unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman.
6 And
it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she
came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest
thou thyself to be another?
for I am sent
to thee with heavy tidings.
7 Go,
tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee
from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel,
8 And
rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou
hast 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 mine eyes;
9 But
hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made
thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me
behind thy back:
10 Therefore,
behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from
Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in
Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man
taketh away dung, till it be all gone.
11 Him
that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in
the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath spoken it.
12 Arise
thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet enter into the city, the
child shall die.
13 And
all 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 the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
14 Moreover
the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of
Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.
15 For
the LORD shall smite 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 their groves, provoking
the LORD to anger.
16 And
he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who
made Israel to sin.
17 And
Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when
she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;
18 And
they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the
LORD, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.
19 And
the 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.
20 And
the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept
with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
21 And
Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty
and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in
Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel,
to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
22 And
Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with
their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
23 For
they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill,
and under every green tree.
24 And
there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the
abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of
Israel.
25 And
it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak
king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:
26 And
he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, 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.
27 And
king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto
the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king's house.
28 And
it was so, when the king went into the house of the LORD, that
the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.
29 Now
the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they
not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
30 And
there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
31 And
Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of
David. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam his
son reigned in his stead.
