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At that time

Abijah

the son

of Jeroboam

fell sick.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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,

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;

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:

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.

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.

Arise

thou therefore, get

thee to thine own house:

and when thy feet

enter

into the city,

the child

shall die.

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.

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.

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.

And he shall give

Israel

up

because

of the sins

of Jeroboam,

who did sin,

and who made Israel

to sin.

And Jeroboam's

wife

arose,

and departed,

and came

to Tirzah:

and when she came

to the threshold

of the door,

the child

died;

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

For they also built

them high places,

and images,

and groves,

on every high

hill,

and under every green

tree.

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.

And it came to pass in the fifth

year

of king

Rehoboam,

that Shishak

king

of Egypt

came up

against Jerusalem:

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.

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.

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.

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?

And there was war

between Rehoboam

and Jeroboam

all their days.

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.