Now it happened as Ahijah H281 heard H8085 the sound H6963 of her feet H7272 coming H935 in the doorway H6607, that he said H559, “Come H935 in H935, wife H802 of Jeroboam H3379, why H4100 do you pretend H5234 to be another H5234 woman H5234? For I am sent H7971 to you with a harsh H7186 message.
“So Yahweh H3068 will strike H5221 Israel H3478, as a reed H7070 is shaken H5110 in the water H4325; and He will uproot H5428 Israel H3478 from this H2088 good H2896 land H127 which H834 He gave H5414 to their fathers H1, and will scatter H2219 them beyond H4480 H5676 the [fn]River H5104, because H3282 H834 they have made H6213 their [fn]Asherim H842, provoking H3707 Yahweh H3068 to H3707 anger H3707.
Now Rehoboam H7346 the son H1121 of Solomon H8010 became H4427 king H4427 in Judah H3063. Rehoboam H7346 was forty-one H705 H259 years H8141 old H1121 when he became H4427 king H4427, and he reigned H4427 seventeen H7651 H6240 years H8141 in Jerusalem H3389, the city H5892 which H834 Yahweh H3068 had chosen H977 from all H3605 the tribes H7626 of Israel H3478 to put H7760 His name H8034 there H8033. And his mother’s H517 name H8034 was Naamah H5279 the Ammonitess H5985.
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