mkjv - 1Kings:13-14

mkjv@1Kings:13:1 @ And behold, a man of God came out of Judah, by the word of the LORD, to Bethel. And Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.

mkjv@1Kings:13:2 @ And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD and said, O, altar, altar, so says the LORD. Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, and on you he shall offer the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and men's bones shall be burned on you.

mkjv@1Kings:13:3 @ And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This [is] the sign which the LORD has spoken. Behold, the altar shall be torn apart, and the ashes that [are] on it shall be poured out.

mkjv@1Kings:13:4 @ And it happened when King Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God who had cried against the altar in Bethel, he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him! And his hand, which he put forth against him withered up so that he could not pull it in again to himself.

mkjv@1Kings:13:5 @ The altar also was torn apart, and the ashes poured out from the altar according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.

mkjv@1Kings:13:6 @ And the king answered and said to the man of God, Seek now the face of the LORD your God, and pray for me, and my hand may be given back to me again. And the man of God prayed to the LORD, and the king's hand was given back to him again, and became as at the beginning.

mkjv@1Kings:13:7 @ And the king said to the man of God, Come home with me and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.

mkjv@1Kings:13:8 @ And the man of God said to the king, If you will give me half your house, I will not go in with you, nor will I eat bread nor drink water in this place.

mkjv@1Kings:13:9 @ For so was it commanded me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no bread nor drink water, nor return again by the same way that you came.

mkjv@1Kings:13:10 @ And he went another way, and did not return by the way he came to Bethel.

mkjv@1Kings:13:11 @ And a certain old prophet was living in Bethel, and his son came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. The words which he had spoken to the king they also told to their father.

mkjv@1Kings:13:12 @ And their father said to them, Where [is] this [man]? What way did he go? For his sons had seen what way the man of God, who came from Judah, had gone.

mkjv@1Kings:13:13 @ And he said to his sons, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled the ass for him, and he rode on it,

mkjv@1Kings:13:14 @ and went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak. And he said to him, [Are] you the man of God who came from Judah? And he said, I [am].

mkjv@1Kings:13:15 @ And he said to him, Come home with me and eat bread.

mkjv@1Kings:13:16 @ And he said, I may not return with you nor go in with you, nor will I eat bread or drink water with you in this place.

mkjv@1Kings:13:17 @ For a word was to me by the word of the LORD, You shall eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that you came.

mkjv@1Kings:13:18 @ And he said to him, I [am] a prophet also as you are. And an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with you into your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied to him.

mkjv@1Kings:13:19 @ So he went back with him and ate bread in his house, and drank water.

mkjv@1Kings:13:20 @ And it happened as they sat at the table, the word of the LORD came to the prophet who brought him back.

mkjv@1Kings:13:21 @ And he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, So says the LORD, Because you have not obeyed the mouth of the LORD and have not kept the command which the LORD your God commanded you,

mkjv@1Kings:13:22 @ but came back and have eaten bread and have drunk water in the place which He said to you, You shall not eat bread nor drink water, your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.

mkjv@1Kings:13:23 @ And after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, it happened that he saddled the ass for him, for the prophet whom he had brought back.

mkjv@1Kings:13:24 @ And he left, and a lion met him by the way and killed him. And his dead body was thrown in the highway, and the ass stood by it, and the lion also stood by the body.

mkjv@1Kings:13:25 @ And behold, men passed by and saw the body thrown in the way, and the lion standing by the body. And they came and told [it] in the city where the old prophet lived.

mkjv@1Kings:13:26 @ And when the prophet who brought him back from the way heard, he said, It [is] the man of God who did not obey the word of the LORD. And the LORD has delivered him to the lion, which has torn him and killed him, according to the word of the LORD which He spoke to him.

mkjv@1Kings:13:27 @ And he spoke to his sons, saying, Saddle the ass for me. And they saddled it.

mkjv@1Kings:13:28 @ And he went and found his body thrown in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the body. The lion had not eaten the body nor torn the ass.

mkjv@1Kings:13:29 @ And the prophet took up the dead body of the man of God, and laid it on the ass and brought it back. And the prophet came to the city to mourn and to bury him.

mkjv@1Kings:13:30 @ And he laid his body in his own grave. And they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!

mkjv@1Kings:13:31 @ And it happened after he had buried him, he spoke to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the tomb in which the man of God [is] buried. Lay my bones beside his bones,

mkjv@1Kings:13:32 @ for the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.

mkjv@1Kings:13:33 @ After this thing Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but turned and made priests of the high places from the lowest of the people. He who desired, he consecrated him, and he became [one] of the priests of the high places.

mkjv@1Kings:13:34 @ And this thing is the sin of the house of Jeroboam, even to blot [it] from off the face of the earth.

mkjv@1Kings:14:1 @ At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.

mkjv@1Kings:14:2 @ And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, please, and disguise yourself so that you will not be known to be the wife of Jeroboam. And go to Shiloh. Behold, there [is] Ahijah the prophet, who told me about [being] king over this people.

mkjv@1Kings:14:3 @ And take ten loaves, and cakes, and a jar of honey with you, and go to him. And he will tell you what shall become of the boy.

mkjv@1Kings:14:4 @ And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose and went to Shiloh. And she came to the house of Ahijah. And Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were set because of his age.

mkjv@1Kings:14:5 @ And the LORD said to Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam comes to ask a thing of you for her son, for he [is] sick. This and this you shall say to her, for when she comes in, she shall act as a stranger.

mkjv@1Kings:14:6 @ And it happened when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the door, he said, Come in, wife of Jeroboam! Why are you acting as a stranger? For I [am] sent to you [with] a hard thing.

mkjv@1Kings:14:7 @ Go tell Jeroboam, So says the LORD God of Israel, I lifted you up from among the people, and made you ruler over My people Israel,

mkjv@1Kings:14:8 @ and tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you. And you have not been as My servant David who kept My commandments, and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only [what was] right in My eyes.

mkjv@1Kings:14:9 @ But you have done evil above all who were before you, for you have gone and made yourself other gods, and molded images, to provoke Me to anger, and have cast Me behind your back;

mkjv@1Kings:14:10 @ therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates against the wall, bound and free in Israel, and will sweep away the rest of the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away the dung, until it is all gone.

mkjv@1Kings:14:11 @ Those of Jeroboam who die in the city, the dogs shall eat. And those who die in the field, the fowls of the air shall eat. For the LORD has spoken.

mkjv@1Kings:14:12 @ And arise, get down to your own house. When your feet enter into the city, the boy shall die.

mkjv@1Kings:14:13 @ And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him. For he only of Jeroboam shall come down to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the LORD God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

mkjv@1Kings:14:14 @ And the LORD shall raise up a king over Israel for Himself, a king who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day. And what? Even now!

mkjv@1Kings:14:15 @ For the LORD shall strike Israel as the reed waves 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 Asherahs, provoking the LORD to anger.

mkjv@1Kings:14:16 @ And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who sinned, and that he made Israel to sin.

mkjv@1Kings:14:17 @ And Jeroboam's wife arose, and left, and came to Tirzah. When she came to the doorsill the boy died.

mkjv@1Kings:14:18 @ And they buried him, and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD which He spoke by the hand of His servant Ahijah the prophet.

mkjv@1Kings:14:19 @ And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred and how he reigned, behold, [they] are written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Israel.

mkjv@1Kings:14:20 @ And the days which Jeroboam reigned [were] twenty-two years. And he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.

mkjv@1Kings:14:21 @ And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam [was] forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD chose out of all the tribes of Israel to put His name there. And his mother's name [was] Naamah, an Ammonitess.

mkjv@1Kings:14:22 @ 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.

mkjv@1Kings:14:23 @ For they also built high places for themselves, and images, and Asherahs, on every high hill and under every green tree.

mkjv@1Kings:14:24 @ And also the sodomite was in the land. They did according to all the hateful things of the nations which the LORD cast out before the sons of Israel.

mkjv@1Kings:14:25 @ And it happened in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt, he came up against Jerusalem.

mkjv@1Kings:14:26 @ And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house. He took all away. And he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

mkjv@1Kings:14:27 @ And King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place, and committed [them] to the hands of the chief of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house.

mkjv@1Kings:14:28 @ And it happened when the king went into the house of the LORD, the guard carried them and brought them back into the guard chamber.

mkjv@1Kings:14:29 @ And the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, [are] they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah?

mkjv@1Kings:14:30 @ And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all [their] days.

mkjv@1Kings:14:31 @ 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 his son Abijam reigned in his place.

mkjv@1Kings:15:1 @ And in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam reigned over Judah.