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1 Kings 14 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Ahijah Prophesies against the King

1Ki 14:1

1Ki 14:1At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick.

1Ki 14:2

1Ki 14:2Jeroboam said to his wife, “Arise now, and disguise yourself so that they will not know that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh; behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who spoke concerning me that I would be king over this people.

1Ki 14:3

1Ki 14:3“Take ten loaves with you, some cakes and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy.”

1Ki 14:4

1Ki 14:4Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were [fn]dim because of his age.

1Ki 14:5

1Ki 14:5Now the LORD had said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to [fn]inquire of you concerning her son, for he is sick. You shall say thus and thus to her, for it will be when she arrives that she will pretend to be another woman.”

1Ki 14:6

1Ki 14:6When Ahijah heard the sound of her feet coming in the doorway, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam, why do you pretend to be another woman? For I am sent to you with a harsh message.

1Ki 14:7

1Ki 14:7“Go, say to Jeroboam, ‘Thus says the LORD God of Israel, “Because I exalted you from among the people and made you leader over My people Israel,

1Ki 14:8

1Ki 14:8and tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you—yet you have not been like My servant David, who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only that which was right in My sight;

1Ki 14:9

1Ki 14:9you also have done more evil than all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me to anger, and have cast Me behind your back—

1Ki 14:10

1Ki 14:10therefore behold, I am bringing calamity on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam [fn]every male person, both bond and free in Israel, and I will make a clean sweep of the house of Jeroboam, as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone.

1Ki 14:11

1Ki 14:11“Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city the dogs will eat. And he who dies in the field the birds of the heavens will eat; for the LORD has spoken it.”’

1Ki 14:12

1Ki 14:12“Now you, arise, go to your house. When your feet enter the city the child will die.

1Ki 14:13

1Ki 14:13“All Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for [fn]he alone of Jeroboam’s family will come to the grave, because in him something good was found toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.

1Ki 14:14

1Ki 14:14“Moreover, the LORD will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam this day [fn]and from now on.

1Ki 14:15

1Ki 14:15“For the LORD will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and He will uproot Israel from this good land which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they have made their [fn]Asherim, provoking the LORD to anger.

1Ki 14:16

1Ki 14:16“He will give up Israel on account of the sins of Jeroboam, which he [fn]committed and with which he made Israel to sin.”

1Ki 14:17

1Ki 14:17Then Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed and came to Tirzah. As she was entering the threshold of the house, the child died.

1Ki 14:18

1Ki 14:18All Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD which He spoke through His servant Ahijah the prophet.

1Ki 14:19

1Ki 14:19Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he made war and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

1Ki 14:20

1Ki 14:20The time that Jeroboam reigned was twenty-two years; and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.

Rehoboam Misleads Judah

(2Ch 11:5—12:16 )

1Ki 14:21

1Ki 14:21Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to put His name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

1Ki 14:22

1Ki 14:22Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked Him to jealousy more than all that their fathers had done, with [fn]the sins which they [fn]committed.

1Ki 14:23

1Ki 14:23For they also built for themselves high places and sacred pillars and [fn]Asherim on every high hill and beneath every luxuriant tree.

1Ki 14:24

1Ki 14:24There were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD dispossessed before the sons of Israel.

1Ki 14:25

1Ki 14:25Now it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, that Shishak the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.

1Ki 14:26

1Ki 14:26He took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king’s house, and he took everything, [fn]even taking all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

1Ki 14:27

1Ki 14:27So King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place, and committed them to the [fn]care of the commanders of the [fn]guard who guarded the doorway of the king’s house.

1Ki 14:28

1Ki 14:28Then it happened as often as the king entered the house of the LORD, that the [fn]guards would carry them and would bring them back into the [fn]guards’ room.

1Ki 14:29

1Ki 14:29Now 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?

1Ki 14:30

1Ki 14:30There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

1Ki 14:31

1Ki 14:31And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. And Abijam his son became king in his place.
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NASB95 Footnotes
Literally: set
Literally: seek a word from
Literally: him who urinates against the wall
Literally: the one
Literally: and what even now?
I.e. wooden symbols of a female deity
Literally: sinned
Literally: their
Literally: sinned
I.e. wooden symbols of a female deity
Literally: and he took away
Literally: hand
Literally: runner
Literally: runners
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