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* At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick . * And Jeroboam said to his wife , Arise , I pray you , and disguise yourself , that you be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam ; and get you to Shiloh : behold , there is Ahijah the prophet , which told me that I should be king over this people . * And take with you ten loaves , and cracknels , and a cruse of honey , and go to him : he shall tell you 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 . But Ahijah could not see ; for his eyes were set by reason of his age . * And the LORD said unto Ahijah , Behold , the wife of Jeroboam comes to ask a thing of you for her son ; for he is sick : thus and thus shall you say unto her : for it shall be , when she comes in , that she shall 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 , you wife of Jeroboam ; why feign you yourself to be another ? for I am sent to you with heavy tidings . * Go , tell Jeroboam , Thus says the LORD God of Israel , Forasmuch as I exalted you from among the people , and made you prince over my people Israel , * And rent the kingdom away from the house of David , and gave it you : and yet you have 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 have done evil above all that were before you : for you have gone and made you other gods , and molten images , to provoke me to anger , and have cast me behind your back : * Therefore , behold , I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam , and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisses against the wall , and him that is shut up and left in Israel , and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam , as a man takes away dung , till it be all gone . * Him that dies of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat ; and him that dies in the field shall the fowls of the air eat : for the LORD has spoken it . * Arise you therefore , get you to yours own house : and when your feet enter into the city , the child shall die . * And all Israel shall mourn 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 God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam . * Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel , who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day : but what ? even now . * For the LORD shall strike Israel , as a reed is shaken in the water , and he shall root up Israel out of this good land , which he gave to their fathers , and shall scatter them beyond the river , because they have made their groves , provoking the LORD to anger . * And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam , who did sin , and who made Israel to sin . * And Jeroboam 's wife arose , and departed , and came to Tirzah : and 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 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 position . * 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 did choose 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 the LORD , and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed , above all that their fathers had done . * For they also built them high places , and images , and groves , on every high hill , and under every green tree . * And there were also sodomites in the land : and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast 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 position brazen shields , and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard , which kept the door of the king 's house . * And it was so , when the king went into the house of the LORD , that the guard bare 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 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 position .

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