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At that
time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
02 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.
03 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.
04 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.
05 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.
06 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.
07 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,
08 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;
09 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.
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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.
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