[1] At that time Abijah, the son of Jeroboam, became ill. [2] And Jeroboam
said to his wife, Now come, put on different clothing so that you may not
seem to be the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh; see, Ahijah is there,
the prophet who said I would be king over this people. [3] And take with
you ten cakes of bread and dry cakes and a pot of honey, and go to him: he
will give you word of what is to become of the child. [4] So Jeroboam's
wife did so, and got up and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah.
Now Ahijah was unable to see, because he was very old. [5] And the Lord had
said to Ahijah, The wife of Jeroboam is coming to get news from you about
her son, who is ill; give her such and such an answer; for she will make
herself seem to be another woman. [6] Then Ahijah, hearing the sound of her
footsteps coming in at the door, said, Come in, O wife of Jeroboam; why do
you make yourself seem like another? for I am sent to you with bitter news.
[7] Go, say to Jeroboam, These are the words of the Lord, the God of
Israel: Though I took you from among the people, lifting you up to be a
ruler over my people Israel, [8] And took the kingdom away by force from
the seed of David and gave it to you, you have not been like my servant
David, who kept my orders, and was true to me with all his heart, doing
only what was right in my eyes. [9] But you have done evil more than any
before you, and have made for yourself other gods, and images of metal,
moving me to wrath, and turning your back on me. [10] So I will send evil
on the line of Jeroboam, cutting off from his family every male child,
those who are shut up and those who go free in Israel; the family of
Jeroboam will be brushed away like a man brushing away waste till it is all
gone. [11] Those of the family of Jeroboam who come to death in the town,
will become food for the dogs; and those on whom death comes in the open
country, will be food for the birds of the air; for the Lord has said it.
[12] Up, then! go back to your house; and in the hour when your feet go
into the town, the death of the child will take place. [13] And all Israel
will put his body to rest, weeping over him, because he only of the family
of Jeroboam will be put into his resting-place in the earth; for of all the
family of Jeroboam, in him only has the Lord, the God of Israel, seen some
good. [14] And the Lord will put up a king over Israel who will send
destruction on the family of Jeroboam in that day; [15] And even now the
hand of the Lord has come down on Israel, shaking it like a river-grass in
the water; and, uprooting Israel from this good land, which he gave to
their fathers, he will send them this way and that on the other side of the
River; because they have made for themselves images, moving the Lord to
wrath. [16] And he will give Israel up because of the sins which Jeroboam
has done and made Israel do. [17] Then Jeroboam's wife got up and went away
and came to Tirzah; and when she came to the doorway of the house, death
came to the child. [18] And all Israel put his body to rest, weeping over
him, as the Lord had said by his servant Ahijah the prophet. [19] Now the
rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he made war and how he became king, are
recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel. [20] And
Jeroboam was king for twenty-two years, and was put to rest with his
fathers, and Nadab his son became king in his place. [21] And Rehoboam, the
son of Solomon, was king in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he
became king, and he was king for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the town
which the Lord had made his out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his
name there; his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonite woman. [22] And Judah
did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and made him more angry than their
fathers had done by their sins. [23] For they made high places and upright
stones and wood pillars on every high hill and under every green tree; [24]
And more than this, there were those in the land who were used for sex
purposes in the worship of the gods, doing the same disgusting crimes as
the nations which the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel. [25]
Now in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, came up
against Jerusalem; [26] And took away all the stored wealth from the house
of the Lord, and from the king's house, and all the gold body-covers which
Solomon had made. [27] So in their place King Rehoboam had other
body-covers made of brass, and gave them into the care of the captains of
the armed men who were stationed at the door of the king's house. [28] And
whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, the armed men went with
him taking the body-covers, and then took them back to their room. [29] Now
the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all he did, are they not recorded in
the book of the history of the kings of Judah? [30] And there was war
between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days. [31] And Rehoboam went to
rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth with his fathers in the
town of David; his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonite woman. And Abijam
his son became king in his place.
