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* At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam was sick . * 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 go to Shiloh : behold , there is Ahijah the prophet , who told me that [I should be ] king over this people . * And take with thee ten loaves , and cakes , and a cruse of honey , and go to him : he will tell thee what shall become of the lad . * And Jeroboam 's wife did so , and arose and went to Shiloh , and came to the house of Ahijah . And Ahijah could not see ; for his eyes were set by reason of his age . * And Jehovah said to Ahijah , Behold , the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee about 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 to be another . * 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 to be another ? But I am sent to thee with a hard [message ]. * Go , tell Jeroboam , Thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel : Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people , and made thee prince over my people Israel , * and rent the kingdom away from the house of David , and gave it thee ; and thou hast not been as my servant David , who kept my commandments , and who followed me with all his heart , to do only that which is right in my sight ; * but thou hast done evil above all that were before thee , and hast gone and made thee other gods , and molten images , to provoke me to anger , and hast cast me behind thy back : * therefore behold , I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam , and will cut off from Jeroboam every male , him that is shut up and left in Israel , and will take away the house of Jeroboam , as a man taketh away dung , till it be all gone . * Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat , and him that dieth in the field shall the fowl of the heavens eat ; for Jehovah hath spoken . * And thou , arise , go to thine own house ; when thy feet enter into the city , the child shall die . * And all Israel shall mourn for him , and they shall bury him ; for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave , because in him there is found something good toward Jehovah the God of Israel , in the house of Jeroboam . * And Jehovah shall raise up for himself a king over Israel , who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day ; and what ?... even now . * And Jehovah 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 Asherahs , provoking Jehovah to anger . * And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam , wherewith he has sinned , and made Israel to sin . * And Jeroboam 's wife arose and departed , and came to Tirzah ; when she came to the threshold of the door , the child died . * And they buried him ; and all Israel mourned for him , according to the word of Jehovah , which he spoke through his servant Ahijah the prophet . * 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 . * And the days that Jeroboam reigned were twenty-two years ; and he slept with his fathers . And Nadab his son reigned in his stead . * 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 that Jehovah had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there ; and his mother 's name was Naamah , an Ammonitess . * And Judah did evil in the sight of Jehovah , and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed more than all that their fathers had done . * And they also built for themselves high places , and columns , and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree ; * and there were also sodomites in the land . They did according to all the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed before the children of Israel . * And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam , [that ] Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem . * And he took away the treasures of the house of Jehovah , and the treasures of the king 's house ; he even took away all ; and he took away all the shields of gold that Solomon had made . * And king Rehoboam made in their stead brazen shields , and committed them to the hands of the chief of the couriers who kept the entrance of the king 's house . * And it was so , that as often as the king entered into the house of Jehovah , the couriers bore them , and brought them again into the chamber of the couriers . * And 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 ? * And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all [their ] days . * 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 .

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