1 Kings - 14

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.