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1 Kings 14 — Chapter 14

1 Kings · Restored Names Edition

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

2And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray you, and disguise thyself, that you be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get you to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people.

3And take with you ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell you what shall become of the child.

4And 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.

5And Yahuah (LORD) said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam comes to ask a thing of you for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shall you say unto her: for it shall be, when she comes in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman.

6And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, you wife of Jeroboam; why feignest you thyself to be another? for I am sent to you with heavy tidings.

7Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus says Yahuah Elohim (the LORD God) of Yashar'el (Israel), Forasmuch as I exalted you from among the people, and made you prince over my people Yashar'el (Israel),

8And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it you: and yet you have 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 my eyes;

9But have done evil above all that were before you: for you have gone and made you other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back:

10Therefore, 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 Yashar'el (Israel), and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man takes away dung, till it be all gone.

11Him that dies of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dies in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for Yahuah (LORD) has spoken it.

12Arise you therefore, get you to your own house: and when your feet enter into the city, the child shall die.

13And all Yashar'el (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 Yahuah Elohim (the LORD God) of Yashar'el (Israel) in the house of Jeroboam.

14Moreover Yahuah (LORD) shall raise him up a king over Yashar'el (Israel), who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.

15For Yahuah (LORD) shall smite Yashar'el (Israel), as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Yashar'el (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 Yahuah (LORD) to anger.

16And he shall give Yashar'el (Israel) up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Yashar'el (Israel) to sin.

17And Jeroboam’s wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;

18And they buried him; and all Yashar'el (Israel) mourned for him, according to the word of Yahuah (LORD), which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.

19And 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 Yashar'el (Israel).

20And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.

21And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Yahudah (Judah). Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahuah (LORD) did choose out of all the tribes of Yashar'el (Israel), to put his name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah an Ammonitess.

22And Yahudah (Judah) did evil in the sight of Yahuah (LORD), and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.

23For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

24And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahuah (LORD) cast out before the children of Yashar'el (Israel).

25And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:

26And he took away the treasures of the house of Yahuah (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.

27And 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.

28And it was so, when the king went into the house of Yahuah (LORD), that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.

29Now 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 Yahudah (Judah)?

30And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.

31And 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.

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