1At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick . 2And 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 . 3And 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 . 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 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 . 6And 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 .
The Death of Jeroboam's Son
7Go , 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 , 8And 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 ; 9But 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 : 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 Israel , and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam , as a man taketh away dung , till it be all gone . 11Him 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 . 12Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house : and when thy feet enter into the city , the child shall die . 13And 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 . 14Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel , who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day : but what? even now.
The Reign of Jeroboam and Its Consequences
15For 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 . 16And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam , who did sin , and who made 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 Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the 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 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 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 . 22And 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 . 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 the LORD cast out before the children of 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 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 . 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 the 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 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.