Chapter 14

At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.¹

And Jeroboam said⁴ to his wife, Arise,³ I pray thee, and disguise¹⁰⁰ thyself, that thou be not known⁴ to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get¹ thee to Shiloh: behold, there [is] Ahijah the prophet, which told¹⁴ me that [I should be] king over this people.

And take¹ with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go¹ to him: he shall tell⁵⁵ thee what shall become of the child.

And Jeroboam's wife did⁴ so, and arose,⁴ and went⁴ to Shiloh, and came⁴ to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could¹ not see;² for his eyes were set¹ by reason of his age.

And the LORD said¹ unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh⁶ to ask² a thing of thee for her son; for he [is] sick:⁶ thus and thus shalt thou say¹⁷ unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in,² that she shall feign herself [to be] another¹⁰² [woman].

And it was [so], when Ahijah heard² the sound of her feet, as she came in⁶ at the door, that he said,⁴ Come in,³ thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself [to be] another?¹⁰² for I [am] sent⁷ to thee [with] heavy [tidings].

Go,³ tell³ Jeroboam, Thus saith¹ the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted⁵² thee from among the people, and made⁴ thee prince over my people Israel,

And rent⁴ the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave⁴ it thee: and [yet] thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept¹ my commandments, and who followed^{1 310} me with all his heart, to do² [that] only [which was] right in mine eyes;

But hast done² evil⁵⁵ above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone⁴ and made⁴ thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger,⁵³ and hast cast⁵² me behind thy back:

Therefore, behold, I will bring⁵⁶ evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off⁵² from Jeroboam him that pisseth⁵⁶ against the wall, [and] him that is shut up⁷ and left⁷ in Israel, and will take away¹⁴ the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away¹⁷ dung, till it be all gone.²

Him that dieth⁵ of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat;⁴ and him that dieth⁵ in the field shall the fowls of the air eat:⁴ for the LORD hath spoken¹⁴ [it].

Arise³ thou therefore, get³ thee to thine own house: [and] when thy feet enter² into the city, the child shall die.¹

And all Israel shall mourn¹ for him, and bury¹ him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come⁴ to the grave, because in him there is found⁸ [some] good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.

Moreover the LORD shall raise him up⁵² a king over Israel, who shall cut off⁵⁵ the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.

For the LORD shall smite⁵² Israel, as a reed is shaken⁴ in the water, and he shall root up¹ Israel out of this good land, which he gave¹ to their fathers, and shall scatter¹⁴ them beyond the river, because they have made¹ their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.⁵⁶

And he shall give⁴ Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin,¹ and who made Israel to sin.⁵²

And Jeroboam's wife arose,⁴ and departed,⁴ and came⁴ to Tirzah: [and] when she came⁶ to the threshold of the door, the child died;¹

And they buried⁴ him; and all Israel mourned⁴ for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake¹⁴ by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.

And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred,⁸ and how he reigned,¹ behold, they [are] written⁷ in the book of the chronicles ³¹¹⁷ of the kings of Israel.

And the days which Jeroboam reigned¹ [were] two and twenty years: and he slept⁴ with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned⁴ in his stead.

And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned¹ in Judah. Rehoboam [was] forty and one years old when he began to reign,² and he reigned¹ seventeen ⁶²⁴⁰ years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose¹ out of all the tribes of Israel, to put² his name there. And his mother's name [was] Naamah an Ammonitess.

And Judah did⁴ evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy¹⁷ with their sins which they had committed,¹ above all that their fathers had done.¹

For they also built⁴ 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 did¹ according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out⁵² before the children of Israel.

And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, [that] Shishak king of Egypt came up¹ against Jerusalem:

And he took away⁴ the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away¹ all: and he took away⁴ all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.¹

And king Rehoboam made⁴ in their stead brasen shields, and committed⁵² [them] unto the hands of the chief of the guard,⁵ which kept⁶ the door of the king's house.

And it was [so], when the king went² into the house of the LORD, that the guard⁵ bare⁴ them, and brought them back⁵² into the guard⁵ chamber.

Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did,¹ [are] they not written⁷ in the book of the chronicles ³¹¹⁷ of the kings of Judah?

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

And Rehoboam slept⁴ with his fathers, and was buried¹¹ with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother's name [was] Naamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned⁴ in his stead.