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At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick .
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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 ,
which told me that I should be king over this people .
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And take with thee ten loaves ,
and cracknels ,
and a cruse of honey ,
and go to him :
he shall tell thee what shall become of the child .
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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 .
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And the LORD said unto Ahijah ,
Behold ,
the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for 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 herself to be another woman .
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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 .
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Go ,
tell Jeroboam ,
Thus saith the LORD God of Israel ,
Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people ,
and made thee prince over my people Israel ,
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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 ;
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But hast done evil above all that were before thee :
for thou hast gone and made thee other gods ,
and molten images ,
to provoke me to anger ,
and hast cast me behind thy back :
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Therefore ,
behold ,
I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam ,
and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth 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 taketh away dung ,
till it be all gone .
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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 .
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Arise thou therefore ,
get thee to thine own house :
and when thy feet enter into the city ,
the child shall die .
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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 .
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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 .
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For the LORD shall smite 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 .
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And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam ,
who did sin ,
and who made Israel to sin .
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And Jeroboam '
s wife arose ,
and departed ,
and came to Tirzah :
and when she came to the threshold of the door ,
the child died ;
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And they buried him ;
and all Israel mourned for him ,
according to the word of the LORD ,
which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet .
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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 .
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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 .