1 Kings 14

¹At that time Abijah son of Jeroboam fell sick.

²And Jeroboam said to his wife, 'Arise, please, and disguise yourself, so that they will not know that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there; it was he who spoke concerning me that I would be king over this people.'

³And you shall take in your hand ten loaves and some cakes and a jar of honey, and you shall go to him; he will tell you what shall become of the boy.

⁴And the wife of Jeroboam did so; she arose and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were set because of his old age.

⁵Now the Lord had said to Ahijah, 'Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to inquire of you a word concerning her son, for he is sick. Thus and thus you shall say to her, for it will be, when she comes, that she will disguise herself.'

⁶And it happened, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet coming in at the door, that he said, Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why is it that you are disguising yourself? For I am sent to you with a hard message.

⁷Go, say to Jeroboam, 'Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Because I raised you up from the midst of the people and made you leader over my people Israel,'

⁸and I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you; yet you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments and who walked after me with all his heart, to do only what was right in my eyes,

⁹but you have done more evil than all who were before you, and you went and made for yourself other gods and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and you have cast me behind your back;

¹⁰Therefore, behold, I am bringing disaster upon the house of Jeroboam, and I will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both bond and free in Israel, and I will sweep away the house of Jeroboam as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone.

¹¹Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city the dogs will eat, and anyone who dies in the field the birds of the heavens will eat; for the Lord has spoken.

¹²As for you, arise, go to your house; when your feet enter the city the child will die.

¹³And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he alone of Jeroboam's house shall come to a grave, because in him there was found something good toward the Lord, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

¹⁴And the Lord will raise up for himself a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam this day. This is the day; and what? Even now!

¹⁵And the Lord will strike Israel as a reed sways in the water, and he will uproot Israel from this good land that he gave to their fathers, and he will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the Lord to anger.

¹⁶And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he committed and by which he made Israel to sin.

¹⁷And the wife of Jeroboam arose and went and came to Tirzah; as she came to the threshold of the house, the boy died.

¹⁸And they buried him, and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the Lord that he had spoken by the hand of his servant Ahijah 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 chronicles of the kings of Israel.

²⁰And the days that Jeroboam reigned were twenty-two years, and he lay down with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.

²¹And Rehoboam son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

²²And Judah did the evil in the eyes of the Lord, and they provoked him to jealousy more than all that their fathers had done, by their sins that they sinned.

²³And they too built for themselves high places and sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

²⁴And there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations whom the Lord had dispossessed before the sons of Israel.

²⁵And it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.

²⁶And he took the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king's house; he took everything. He even took all the shields of gold that Solomon had made.

²⁷And King Rehoboam made in their place shields of bronze, and he committed them into the hand of the commanders of the runners who guarded the door of the king's house.

²⁸And it happened, as often as the king entered the house of the Lord, the guards would carry them, and bring them back to the guardroom of the runners.

²⁹Now 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?

³⁰And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.

³¹And Rehoboam lay down with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And the name of his mother was Naamah the Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his place.