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* King Jeroboam 's son Abijah became sick . * Jeroboam said to his wife : »Disguise yourself so that no one will recognize you , and go to Shiloh . That is where the prophet Ahijah lives . He is the one who said I would be king of Israel . * »Take him ten loaves of bread , some cakes , and a jar of honey . Ask him what is going to happen to our son . He will tell you .« * She went to Ahijah 's home in Shiloh . Old age had made Ahijah blind . * Jehovah told him : »Jeroboam 's wife is coming to ask you about her son , for he is sick .« Jehovah told Ahijah what to say . Jeroboam 's wife pretended to be someone else when she arrived there . * Ahijah heard her coming in the door and said : »Come in . I know you are Jeroboam 's wife . Why do you pretend to be someone else ? I have bad news for you . * »Go and tell Jeroboam that this is what Jehovah , the God of Israel , says to him : I chose you from among the people and made you the ruler of my people Israel . * »I took the kingdom away from David 's descendants and gave it to you . You have not been like my servant David . He was completely loyal to me . He obeyed my commands , and did only what I approve of . * »You have committed far greater sins than those who ruled before you . You have rejected me and have aroused my anger by making idols and metal images to worship . * »I will bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam . I will kill all your male descendants , young and old alike . I will get rid of your family . They will be swept away like dung . * »Dogs will eat members of your family who die in the city . Vultures will eat any who die in the open country . I , Jehovah , have spoken !« * Ahijah went on to say to Jeroboam 's wife : »Go back home . As soon as you enter the town , your son will die . * »All the people of Israel will mourn for him and bury him . He will be the only member of Jeroboam 's family who will be properly buried for he is the only one with whom Jehovah , the God of Israel , is pleased . * »Jehovah will place a king over Israel who will put an end to Jeroboam 's house . * »Jehovah will punish Israel , and she will shake like a reed shaking in a stream . He will uproot the people of Israel from this good land that he gave to their ancestors . He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River , because they have aroused his anger by making idols of the goddess Asherah . * »Jehovah will abandon Israel because Jeroboam sinned and led the people of Israel into sin .« * Jeroboam 's wife went back to Tirzah . Just as she entered her home , the child died . * The people of Israel mourned for him and buried him . This is as Jehovah said through his servant , the prophet Ahijah . * Everything else that King Jeroboam did , the wars he fought and how he ruled , are all recorded in The History of the Kings of Israel . * Jeroboam ruled as king for twenty-two years . He died and was buried . His son Nadab succeeded him as king . * Solomon 's son Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king of Judah . He ruled seventeen years in Jerusalem , the city Jehovah chose from all the territory of Israel as the place where he was to be worshiped . Rehoboam 's mother was Naamah from Ammon . * The people of Judah sinned against Jehovah . They did more to arouse his anger against them than all their ancestors had done . * They built places of worship for false gods . They put up stone pillars and symbols of Asherah to worship on the hills and under shady trees . * There were also male prostitutes in the temples of idols throughout the land . The people of Judah practiced all the disgusting practices done by the nations that Jehovah forced out of the Israelites ' way . * King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem in the fifth year of Rehoboam ’s reign . * He took the treasures from Jehovah ’s Temple and the royal palace . He took them all . He took all the gold shields Solomon had made . * King Rehoboam replaced them with bronze shields and entrusted them to the officers responsible for guarding the palace gates . * The guards carried the shields every time the king went to the Temple and then returned them to the guardroom . * The rest of the acts of Rehoboam , and everything he did are recorded in the book of the History of the Kings of Judah . * There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days . * Rehoboam went to rest with his fathers , and was buried with them in the city of David . His mother 's name was Naamah , an Ammonite woman . And Abijam his son became king in his place .

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