1 Kings 14

¹ At that time Abijah son of Jeroboam became ill.

² Jeroboam said to his wife, "Get up and disguise yourself so that no one will know you are Jeroboam's wife. Go to Shiloh—Ahijah the prophet is there, the one who told me I would be king over this people.

³ Take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy."

⁴ Jeroboam's wife did so. She got up and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were fixed because of his age.

⁵ But the LORD had said to Ahijah, "The wife of Jeroboam is coming to inquire of you about her son, for he is ill. You shall say such and such to her. When she arrives, she will be disguising herself."

⁶ When Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came through the door, he said, "Come in, wife of Jeroboam! Why are you disguising yourself? I have been sent to you with harsh news.

⁷ Go, tell Jeroboam: This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I raised you up from among the people and made you ruler over my people Israel.

⁸ I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you. But you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me with all his heart, doing only what was right in my eyes.

⁹ You have done more evil than all who were before you. You have gone and made for yourself other gods and cast images to provoke me to anger, and you have thrown me behind your back.

¹⁰ Therefore I am about to bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam. I will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both bond and free in Israel, and I will sweep away the house of Jeroboam as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone.

¹¹ Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city, the dogs will eat; and anyone who dies in the open country, the birds of the sky will eat. For the LORD has spoken."

¹² "As for you, get up and go to your house. When your feet enter the city, the child will die.

¹³ All Israel will mourn for him and bury him, for he alone of Jeroboam's family will come to a grave, because in him something good toward the LORD, the God of Israel, has been found in the house of Jeroboam.

¹⁴ The LORD will raise up for himself a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is the day! Even now!

¹⁵ The LORD will strike Israel as a reed sways in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that he gave to their ancestors, and scatter them beyond the River, because they made their Asherah poles, provoking the LORD to anger.

¹⁶ He will give up Israel because of the sins Jeroboam committed and caused Israel to commit."

¹⁷ Jeroboam's wife got up and left and came to Tirzah. As she came to the threshold of the house, the boy died.

¹⁸ They buried him, and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD that he spoke through his servant Ahijah the prophet.

¹⁹ The rest of the acts of Jeroboam—how he waged war and how he reigned—these are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

²⁰ The time Jeroboam reigned was twenty-two years. He rested with his ancestors, and his son Nadab reigned in his place.

²¹ Now Rehoboam son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite.

²² Judah did what was evil in the eyes of the LORD. They provoked him to jealousy with their sins, more than all that their ancestors had done.

²³ They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

²⁴ There were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They practiced all the detestable things of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

²⁵ In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.

²⁶ He took the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king's palace. He took everything. He even took all the gold shields that Solomon had made.

²⁷ King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place and entrusted them to the commanders of the guard who guarded the entrance to the king's palace.

²⁸ Whenever the king went to the house of the LORD, the guards would carry them, then bring them back to the guardroom.

²⁹ As for 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 There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

³¹ Rehoboam rested with his ancestors and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. His mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite. His son Abijam reigned in his place.