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* At that time Abiyah the son of Jerobo ’am fell sick . * And Jerobo ’am said to his wife , Arise , I pray thee , and disguise thyself , that people may not know that thou art the wife of Jerobo ’am ; and go to Shiloh : behold , there is Achiyahu the prophet , who spoke of me that king over this people . * And take with thee ten loaves of bread and spice –cakes , and a cruise of honey , and go to him : he will tell thee what is to become of the lad . * And Jerobo ’am ’s wife did so , and arose , and went to Shiloh , and came to the house of Achiyahu . But Achiyahu was not able to see ; for his eyes were set by reason of his high age . * And the Lord had said unto Achiyahu , Behold the wife of Jerobo ’am is coming to inquire a word of thee about her son ; for he is sick : thus and thus shalt thou speak unto her ; for it will be , when she cometh in , that she will feign to be another . * And it happened , when Achiyahu heard the sound of her feet , as she came in at the door , that he said , Come in , thou wife of Jerobo ’am ; why is this , that thou feignest to be another ? but I am sent to thee with a hard message . * Go , say to Jerobo ’am , Thus hath said the Lord the God of Israel , Forasmuch as I exalted thee from the midst of the people , and made thee prince over my people Israel , * And I rent the kingdom away from the house of David , and gave it unto thee ; whereas thou hast not been like my servant David , who kept my commandments , and who followed after me with all his heart , to do only what is right in my eyes ; * And thou hast done more evil than all that were before thee ; and thou art gone and hast made unto thyself other gods , and molten images , to provoke me to anger , and me hast thou cast behind thy back : * Therefore , behold , will I bring evil upon the house of Jerobo ’am , and will cut off from Jerobo ’am every male , the guarded and fortified in Israel ; and I will sweep out after the house of Jerobo ’am as one sweepeth away the dung till there be nothing left of it . * Him that dieth of Jerobo ’am in the city shall the dogs eat ; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the heavens eat ; for the Lord hath spoken it . * But thou , arise now , go to thy own house : when thy feet enter into the city , the child shall die . * And all Israel shall mourn for him , and bury him ; for this one alone shall come of Jerobo ’am ’s to the grave ; because there hath been found in him some good thing toward the Lord the God of Israel in the house of Jerobo ’am . * And the Lord will raise up unto himself a king over Israel , who shall cut off the house of Jerobo ’am what is here this day , and what will be after this . * And the Lord will smite Israel , as the reed is shaken in the water , and he will pull up Israel out of this good land , which he gave to their fathers , and will scatter them on the other side of the river ; because they have made their groves , provoking the Lord to anger . * And he will give Israel up for the sake of the sins of Jerobo ’am , who did sin , and who induced Israel to sin . * And Jerobo ’am ’s wife arose , and departed , and came to Thirzah ; as she came to the threshold of the door , the lad died : * And they buried him ; and all Israel mourned for him , according to the word of the Lord , which he had spoken by the hand of his servant Achiyahu the prophet . * And the rest of the acts of Jerobo ’am , 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 Jerobo ’am reigned were two and twenty years ; and he slept with his fathers , and Nadab his son became king in his stead . * And Rehobo ’am the son of Solomon reigned in Judah . Rehobo ’am was forty and one years old when he became king , and seventeen years did he reign 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 Na ’amah the ‘Ammonitess . * And Judah did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord , and they moved him to wrath more than all that their fathers had done , with their sins which they committed . * And they also built themselves high –places , and standing images , and groves , on every high hill , and under every green tree . * And sodomites also were in the land : they acted in accordance with all the abominable deeds of the nations which the Lord had driven out before the children of Israel . * And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehobo ’am , that Shishak the 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 ; yea , every thing did he take away ; and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made . * And king Rehobo ’am made in their stead shields of copper , and committed them for keeping into the hand of the chiefs of the runners , who kept guard at the door of the king ’s house . * And it happened whenever the king went into the house of the Lord , that the runners used to bear them , and carried them then back into the apartment of the runners . * And the rest of the acts of Rehobo ’am , and all that he did , behold , they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah . * And there was war between Rehobo ’am and Jerobo ’am all the days . * And Rehobo ’am slept with his fathers , and was buried with his fathers in the city of David . And his mother ’s name was Na ’amah the ‘Ammonitess . And Abiyam his son became king in his stead .

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