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.
