1Kings:14:1-20
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At that time Abiyah the son of Jerobo
am fell sick .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 ,
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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 ;
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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 :
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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 .
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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 .
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But thou ,
arise now ,
go to thy own house :
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 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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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And he will give Israel up for the sake of the sins of Jerobo
am ,
who did sin ,
and who induced Israel to sin .
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And Jerobo
am
s wife arose ,
and departed ,
and came to Thirzah ;
as she came to the threshold of the door ,
the lad died :
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .