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1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray you, and disguise yourself, 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.
3 And take with you ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he will tell you what will become of the child.
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.
5 And the LORD [Yahweh] said to Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam comes to ask a thing of you for her son; for he [is] sick: thus and thus will you say to her: for it will be, when she comes in, that she will feign herself [to be] another [woman].
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, you wife of Jeroboam; why feign you yourself [to be] another? for I [am] sent to you [with] heavy [tidings].
7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus says the LORD [Yahweh] God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted you from among the people, and made you prince over my people Israel,
8 And 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;
9 But 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:
10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that urinates 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 takes away dung, till it be all gone.
11 Him that dies of Jeroboam in the city will the dogs eat; and him that dies in the field will the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD [Yahweh] has spoken [it].
12 Arise you therefore, get you to your own house: [and] when your feet enter into the city, the child will die.
13 And all Israel will mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam will come to the grave, because in him there is found [some] good thing toward the LORD [Yahweh] God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
14 Moreover the LORD [Yahweh] will raise him up a king over Israel, who will cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.
15 For the LORD [Yahweh] will smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he will root up Israel 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 [Yahweh] to anger.
16 And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who sinned, and who made Israel to sin.
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;
18 And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD [Yahweh], which he spoke by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.
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.
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.
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 [Yahweh] 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 [Yahweh], and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
23 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
24 And there were also sodomites in the land: [and] they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD [Yahweh] cast out before the children of Israel.
25 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, [that] Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:
26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD [Yahweh], 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.
27 And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed [them] to the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king's house.
28 And it was [so], when the king went into the house of the LORD [Yahweh], that the guard bare them, and brought them back into 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 chronicles 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 stead.