FIRST KINGS

 

1 Kings Chapter 14

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

2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Go disguise yourself, so that no one will know that you are the wife of Jeroboam; and go to Shiloh: for Ahijah, the prophet who told me that I would be king over this nation, is there.

3 Take ten loaves, some cakes, and a cruse of honey with you, and go to him: he will tell you what will happen to the child.

4 And Jeroboam’s wife did so, she arose, and went to Shiloh, and went to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were dim because of his age.

5 And the LORD said to Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to ask you about her son; for he is sick: you shall say to her this and this: for when she comes in, she will pretend to be another woman.

6 When Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in the door, he said, Come in, wife of Jeroboam; why do you pretend to be someone else? for I have been directed to give you sad news.

7 ¶ Go, tell Jeroboam, The LORD God of Israel says this, Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you a prince over my people Israel,

8 And took the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to you: and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and followed me with all his heart, to do only that which was right in my eyes;

9 But have behaved more wickedly than all who were before you: for you have made other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have turned your back on me:

10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him who urinates against a wall, both bond and free in Israel, and will utterly remove the rest of the house of Jeroboam, as a man removes dung, until it is all gone.

11 The dogs shall eat anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city; and birds of the air will eat anyone who dies in the field: for the LORD has spoken.

12 So get up, go to your own house: and when your feet enter the city, the child will die.

13 And all Israel will mourn for him, and bury him: for he alone of Jeroboam’s house will enter the grave, because in him alone, in the house of Jeroboam, there is found something pleasing to the LORD God of Israel.

14 Moreover the LORD will raise up for himself a king over Israel, who will cut off the house of Jeroboam: today and from now on.

15 For the LORD shall beat Israel, like a reed whipped in the water, and he will root Israel up out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.

16 And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who sinned, and made Israel sin.

17 And Jeroboam’s wife got up, and left, and went to Tirzah: and when she got 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 spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.

19 Now notice that the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he waged war, and how he reigned, are written about in the book of the records of the kings of Israel.

20 And the time that Jeroboam reigned was twenty-two years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.

21 ¶ Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD chose 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, whom they provoked to jealousy with the sins that they had committed, more so than all that their fathers had done.

23 For they also made hilltop shrines, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

24 And there were also sodomites in the land: and they committed all the abominations of the nations that the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

25 Then in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:

26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and all of the treasures of the king’s house: and he took away all the shields of gold that Solomon had made.

27 And king Rehoboam made in their place brass shields, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house.

28 And whenever the king went into the house of the LORD, the guard would carry them, and then return them to 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 records 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 place.