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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 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. 3 And 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. 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 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. 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, thou wife of Jer­oboam; why feignest thou thy­self ­to be an­oth­er? for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings. 7 Go, 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, 8 And 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; 9 But 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: 10 There­fore, 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. 11 Him 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. 12 Arise thou there­fore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet en­ter into the city, the child shall die. 13 And 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. 14 More­over the LORD shall raise him up a king over Is­rael, who shall cut off the house of Jer­oboam that day: but what? even now. 15 For 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. 16 And he shall give Is­rael up be­cause of the sins of Jer­oboam, who did sin, 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, which he spake 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 did choose 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, 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 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, 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 unto 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, 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.