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1 Kings 14 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:1 - At that time Abi'jah the son of Jerobo'am fell sick.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:2 - And Jerobo'am said to his wife, "Arise, and disguise yourself, that it be not known that you are the wife of Jerobo'am, and go to Shiloh; behold, Ahi'jah the prophet is there, who said of me that I should be king over this people.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:3 - Take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him; he will tell you what shall happen to the child."

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:4 - Jerobo'am's wife did so; she arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahi'jah. Now Ahi'jah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:5 - And the LORD said to Ahi'jah, "Behold, the wife of Jerobo'am is coming to inquire of you concerning her son; for he is sick. Thus and thus shall you say to her." When she came, she pretended to be another woman.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:6 - But when Ahi'jah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, he said, "Come in, wife of Jerobo'am; why do you pretend to be another? For I am charged with heavy tidings for you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:7 - Go, tell Jerobo'am, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: "Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you leader over my people Israel,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:8 - and tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you; and yet you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments, and followed me with all his heart, doing only that which was right in my eyes,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:9 - but you have done evil above all that were before you and have gone and made for yourself other gods, and molten images, provoking me to anger, and have cast me behind your back;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:10 - therefore behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jerobo'am, and will cut off from Jerobo'am every male, both bond and free in Israel, and will utterly consume the house of Jerobo'am, as a man burns up dung until it is all gone.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:11 - Any one belonging to Jerobo'am who dies in the city the dogs shall eat; and any one who dies in the open country the birds of the air shall eat; for the LORD has spoken it."'

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:12 - Arise therefore, go to your house. When your feet enter the city, the child shall die.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:13 - And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him; for he only of Jerobo'am shall come to the grave, because in him there is found something pleasing to the LORD, the God of Israel, in the house of Jerobo'am.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:14 - Moreover the LORD will raise up for himself a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jerobo'am today. And henceforth

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:15 - the LORD will smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and scatter them beyond the Euphra'tes, because they have made their Ashe'rim, provoking the LORD to anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:16 - And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jerobo'am, which he sinned and which he made Israel to sin."

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:17 - Then Jerobo'am's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah. And as she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:18 - And all Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Ahi'jah the prophet.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:19 - Now 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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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:20 - And the time that Jerobo'am reigned was twenty-two years; and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.

Rehoboam Misleads Judah

(2Ch 11:5—12:16 )

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:21 - Now Rehobo'am the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehobo'am was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and 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 Na'amah the Ammonitess.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:22 - And Judah did what was 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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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:23 - For they also built for themselves high places, and pillars, and Ashe'rim on every high hill and under every green tree;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:24 - and there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:25 - In the fifth year of King Rehobo'am, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:26 - 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 shields of gold which Solomon had made;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:27 - and King Rehobo'am made in their stead shields of bronze, and committed them to the hands of the officers of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:28 - And as often as the king went into the house of the LORD, the guard bore them and brought them back to the guardroom.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:29 - Now the rest of the acts of Rehobo'am, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:30 - And there was war between Rehobo'am and Jerobo'am continually.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:31 - And Rehobo'am slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. His mother's name was Na'amah the Ammonitess. And Abi'jam his son reigned in his stead.
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