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At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick .
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And Jeroboam said to his wife , "
Please arise ,
and disguise yourself ,
that they may not recognize you as the wife of Jeroboam ,
and go to Shiloh .
Indeed ,
Ahijah the prophet is there ,
who told me that I would be king over this people .
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Also take with you ten loaves ,
some cakes ,
and a jar of honey ,
and go to him ;
he will tell you what will become of the child ."
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And Jeroboam '
s wife did so ;
she arose and went to Shiloh ,
and came to the house of Ahijah .
But Ahijah could not see ,
for his eyes were glazed by reason of his age .
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Now the LORD had said to Ahijah , "
Here is the wife of Jeroboam ,
coming to ask you something about her son ,
for he is sick .
Thus and thus you shall say to her ;
for it will be ,
when she comes in ,
that she will pretend to be another woman ."
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And so it was ,
when Ahijah heard the sound of her footsteps as she came through the door ,
he said , "
Come in ,
wife of Jeroboam .
Why do you pretend to be another person ?
For I have been sent to you with bad news .
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Go ,
tell Jeroboam , "
Thus says the LORD God of Israel : "
Because I exalted you from among the people ,
and made you ruler over My people Israel ,
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and tore the kingdom away from the house of David ,
and gave it to 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 only what was right in My eyes ;
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but you have done more evil than all who were before you ,
for you have gone and made for yourself other gods and molded images to provoke Me to anger ,
and have cast Me behind your back --
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therefore behold !
I will bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam ,
and will cut off from Jeroboam every male in Israel ,
bond and free ;
I will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam ,
as one takes away refuse until it is all gone .
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The dogs shall eat whoever belongs to Jeroboam and dies in the city ,
and the birds of the air shall eat whoever dies in the field ;
for the LORD has spoken !"'
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Arise therefore ,
go to your own house .
When your feet enter the city ,
the child shall die .
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And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him ,
for he is the only one of Jeroboam who shall come to the grave ,
because in him there is found something good toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam .
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Moreover the LORD will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam ;
this is the day .
What ?
Even now !
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For the LORD will strike Israel ,
as a reed is shaken in the water .
He will uproot Israel from this good land which He gave to their fathers ,
and will scatter them beyond the River ,
because they have made their wooden images ,
provoking the LORD to anger .
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And He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam ,
who sinned and who made Israel sin ."
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Then Jeroboam '
s wife arose and departed ,
and came to Tirzah .
When she came to the threshold of the house ,
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 spoke through His servant Ahijah the prophet .
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Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam ,
how he made war and how he reigned ,
indeed they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel .
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The period that Jeroboam reigned was twenty-two years .
So he rested with his fathers .
Then Nadab his son reigned in his place .
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And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah .
Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king .
He reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem ,
the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel ,
to put His name there .
His mother '
s name was Naamah ,
an Ammonitess .
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Now Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD ,
and they provoked Him to jealousy with their sins which they committed ,
more than all that their fathers had done .
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For they also built for themselves high places ,
sacred pillars ,
and wooden images on every high hill and under every green tree .
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And there were also perverted persons in the land .
They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel .
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It happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem .
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And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king '
s house ;
he took away everything .
He also took away all the gold shields which Solomon had made .
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Then King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place ,
and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard ,
who guarded the doorway of the king '
s house .
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And whenever the king entered the house of the LORD ,
the guards carried them ,
then brought them back into the guardroom .
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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 ?
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And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days .
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So Rehoboam rested with his fathers ,
and was buried with his fathers in the City of David .
His mother '
s name was Naamah ,
an Ammonitess .
Then Abijam his son reigned in his place .