1Ki 14:1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
1Ki 14:2 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.
1Ki 14:3 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.
1Ki 14:4 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.
1Ki 14:5 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.
1Ki 14:6 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.
1Ki 14:7 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,
1Ki 14:8 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;
1Ki 14:9 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:
1Ki 14:10 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.
1Ki 14:11 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.
1Ki 14:12 Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet
enter into the city, the child shall die.
1Ki 14:13 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.
1Ki 14:14 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.
1Ki 14:15 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.
1Ki 14:16 And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did
sin, and who made Israel to sin.
1Ki 14:17 And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when
she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;
1Ki 14:18 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.
1Ki 14:19 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.
1Ki 14:20 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.
1Ki 14:21 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.
1Ki 14:22 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.
1Ki 14:23 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every
high hill, and under every green tree.
1Ki 14:24 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.
1Ki 14:25 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak
king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:
1Ki 14:26 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.
1Ki 14:27 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.
1Ki 14:28 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.
1Ki 14:29 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?
1Ki 14:30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
1Ki 14:31 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.