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* At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell 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 get thee to Shiloh ; behold , there is Ahijah the prophet , who spoke concerning me that I should be king over this people . * And take with thee ten loaves , and biscuits , and a cruse of honey , and go to him ; he will tell thee what shall become of the child .' * And Jeroboam 's wife did so , and arose , and went to Shiloh , and came to the house of Ahijah . Now Ahijah could not see ; for his eyes were set by reason of his age . * Now the LORD had said unto Ahijah : 'Behold , the wife of Jeroboam cometh to inquire of thee concerning her son ; for he is sick ; thus and thus shalt thou say unto her ; for it will be , when she cometh in , that she will feign herself to be another woman .' * 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 . * Go , tell Jeroboam : Thus saith the LORD , 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 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 ; * but hast done evil above all that were before thee , and hast gone and made thee other gods , and molten images , to provoke Me , 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 man-child , and him that is shut up and him that is left at large in Israel , and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam , as a man sweepeth 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 fowls of the air eat ; for the LORD hath spoken it . * Arise thou therefore , get thee to thy house ; and when thy feet enter into the city , the child shall die . * And all Israel shall make lamentation 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 , the God of Israel , in the house of Jeroboam . * Moreover the LORD will raise Him up a king over Israel , who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day . But what is it even then ? * for the LORD 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 Asherim , provoking the LORD . * And He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam , which he hath sinned , and wherewith he hath made Israel to sin .' * And Jeroboam 's wife arose , and departed , and came to Tirzah ; and as she came to the threshold of the house , the child died . * And all Israel buried him , and made lamentation for him ; according to the word of the LORD , which He spoke by the hand of 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 which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty 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 and one years old when he began to reign , and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem , the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel , to put His name there ; and his mother 's name was Naamah the Ammonitess . * And Judah did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD ; and they moved Him to jealousy with their sins which they committed , above all that their fathers had done . * For they also built them high places , and pillars , and Asherim , on every high hill , and under every leafy tree ; * and there were also sodomites in the land ; they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD drove out 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 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 . * And king Rehoboam made in their stead shields of brass , and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard , who kept the door of the king 's house . * And it was so , that as oft as the king went into the house of the LORD , the guard bore them , and brought them back into the guard-chamber . * 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 ? * And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually . * And Rehoboam slept with his fathers , and was buried with his fathers in the city of David ; and his mother 's name was Naamah the Ammonitess . And Abijam his son reigned in his stead .

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