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ylt @1Kings:14:1 @At that time was Abijah son of Jeroboam sick , ylt @1Kings:14:2 @and Jeroboam saith to his wife , 'Rise , I pray thee , and change thyself , and they know not that thou [art ] wife of Jeroboam , and thou hast gone to Shiloh ; lo , there [is ] Ahijah the prophet ; he spake unto me of [being ] king over this people ; ylt @1Kings:14:3 @and thou hast taken in thy hand ten loaves , and crumbs , and a bottle of honey , and hast gone in unto him ; he doth declare to thee what becometh of the youth .' ylt @1Kings:14:4 @And the wife of Jeroboam doth so , and riseth , and goeth to Shiloh , and entereth the house of Ahijah , and Ahijah is not able to see , for his eyes have stood because of his age . ylt @1Kings:14:5 @And Jehovah said unto Ahijah , 'Lo , the wife of Jeroboam is coming to seek a word from thee concerning her son , for he is sick ; thus and thus thou dost speak unto her , and it cometh to pass at her coming in , that she is making herself strange .' ylt @1Kings:14:6 @And it cometh to pass , at Ahijah 's hearing the sound of her feet [as ] she came in to the opening , that he saith , 'Come in , wife of Jeroboam , why is this -- thou art making thyself strange ? and I am sent unto thee [with ] a sharp thing : ylt @1Kings:14:7 @Go , say to Jeroboam , Thus said Jehovah , God of Israel , Because that I have made thee high out of the midst of the people , and appoint thee leader over my people Israel , ylt @1Kings:14:8 @and rend the kingdom from the house of David , and give it to thee , -- and thou hast not been as My servant David who kept My commands , and who walked after Me with all his heart , to do only that which [is ] right in Mine eyes , ylt @1Kings:14:9 @and thou dost evil above all who have been before thee , and goest , and makest to thee other gods and molten images to provoke Me to anger , and Me thou hast cast behind thy back : ylt @1Kings:14:10 @'Therefore , lo , I am bringing in evil unto the house of Jeroboam , and have cut off to Jeroboam those sitting on the wall -- shut up and left -- in Israel , and have put away the posterity of the house of Jeroboam , as one putteth away the dung till its consumption ; ylt @1Kings:14:11 @him who dieth of Jeroboam in a city do the dogs eat , and him who dieth in a field do fowl of the heavens eat , for Jehovah hath spoken . ylt @1Kings:14:12 @'And thou , rise , go to thy house ; in the going in of thy feet to the city -- hath the lad died ; ylt @1Kings:14:13 @and all Israel have mourned for him , and buried him , for this one -- by himself -- cometh of Jeroboam unto a grave , because there hath been found in him a good thing towards Jehovah , God of Israel , in the house of Jeroboam . ylt @1Kings:14:14 @'And Jehovah hath raised up for Him a king over Israel who cutteth off the house of Jeroboam this day -- and what ? -- even now ! ylt @1Kings:14:15 @And Jehovah hath smitten Israel as the reed is moved by the waters , and hath plucked Israel from off this good ground that He gave to their fathers , and scattered them beyond the River , because that they made their shrines , provoking Jehovah to anger ; ylt @1Kings:14:16 @and He giveth up Israel because of the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned , and that he caused Israel to sin .' ylt @1Kings:14:17 @And the wife of Jeroboam riseth , and goeth , and cometh to Tirzah ; she hath come in to the threshold of the house , and the youth dieth ; ylt @1Kings:14:18 @and they bury him , and mourn for him do all Israel , according to the word of Jehovah , that he spake by the hand of His servant Ahijah the prophet . ylt @1Kings:14:19 @And the rest of the matters of Jeroboam , how he fought , and how he reigned , lo , they are written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel . ylt @1Kings:14:20 @And the days that Jeroboam reigned [are ] twenty and two years , and he lieth with his fathers , and reign doth Nadab his son in his stead .

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