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1 Kings 14 :: New International Version (NIV)

Ahijah’s Prophecy Against Jeroboam

1Ki 14:1

1Ki 14:1At that time Abijah son of Jeroboam became ill,

1Ki 14:2

1Ki 14:2and Jeroboam said to his wife, “Go, disguise yourself, so you won’t be recognized as the wife of Jeroboam. Then go to Shiloh. Ahijah the prophet is there—the one who told me I would be king over this people.

1Ki 14:3

1Ki 14:3Take ten loaves of bread 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 14:4So Jeroboam’s wife did what he said and went to Ahijah’s house in Shiloh. Now Ahijah could not see; his sight was gone because of his age.

1Ki 14:5

1Ki 14:5But the LORD had told Ahijah, “Jeroboam’s wife is coming to ask you about her son, for he is ill, and you are to give her such and such an answer. When she arrives, she will pretend to be someone else.”

1Ki 14:6

1Ki 14:6So when Ahijah heard the sound of her footsteps at the door, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why this pretense? I have been sent to you with bad news.

1Ki 14:7

1Ki 14:7Go, tell Jeroboam that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I raised you up from among the people and appointed you ruler over my people Israel.

1Ki 14:8

1Ki 14:8I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you, but you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commands and followed me with all his heart, doing only what was right in my eyes.

1Ki 14:9

1Ki 14:9You have done more evil than all who lived before you. You have made for yourself other gods, idols made of metal; you have aroused my anger and turned your back on me.

1Ki 14:10

1Ki 14:10“ ‘Because of this, I am going to bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam. I will cut off from Jeroboam every last male in Israel—slave or free.[fn] I will burn up the house of Jeroboam as one burns dung, until it is all gone.

1Ki 14:11

1Ki 14:11Dogs will eat those belonging to Jeroboam who die in the city, and the birds will feed on those who die in the country. The LORD has spoken!’

1Ki 14:12

1Ki 14:12“As for you, go back home. When you set foot in your city, the boy will die.

1Ki 14:13

1Ki 14:13All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will be buried, because he is the only one in the house of Jeroboam in whom the LORD, the God of Israel, has found anything good.

1Ki 14:14

1Ki 14:14“The LORD will raise up for himself a king over Israel who will cut off the family of Jeroboam. Even now this is beginning to happen.[fn]

1Ki 14:15

1Ki 14:15And the LORD will strike Israel, so that it will be like a reed swaying in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that he gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they aroused the LORD’s anger by making Asherah poles.[fn]

1Ki 14:16

1Ki 14:16And he will give Israel up because of the sins Jeroboam has committed and has caused Israel to commit.”

1Ki 14:17

1Ki 14:17Then Jeroboam’s wife got up and left and went to Tirzah. As soon as she stepped over the threshold of the house, the boy died.

1Ki 14:18

1Ki 14:18They buried him, and all Israel mourned for him, as the LORD had said through his servant the prophet Ahijah.

1Ki 14:19

1Ki 14:19The other events of Jeroboam’s reign, his wars and how he ruled, are written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel.

1Ki 14:20

1Ki 14:20He reigned for twenty-two years and then rested with his ancestors. And Nadab his son succeeded him as king.

Rehoboam King of Judah

(2Ch 11:5—12:16 )

1Ki 14:21

1Ki 14:21Rehoboam son of Solomon was king in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel in which to put his Name. His mother’s name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite.

1Ki 14:22

1Ki 14:22Judah did evil in the eyes of the LORD. By the sins they committed they stirred up his jealous anger more than those who were before them had done.

1Ki 14:23

1Ki 14:23They also set up for themselves high places, sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.

1Ki 14:24

1Ki 14:24There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land; the people engaged in all the detestable practices of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

1Ki 14:25

1Ki 14:25In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.

1Ki 14:26

1Ki 14:26He carried off the treasures of the temple of the LORD and the treasures of the royal palace. He took everything, including all the gold shields Solomon had made.

1Ki 14:27

1Ki 14:27So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned these to the commanders of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace.

1Ki 14:28

1Ki 14:28Whenever the king went to the LORD’s temple, the guards bore the shields, and afterward they returned them to the guardroom.

1Ki 14:29

1Ki 14:29As for the other events of Rehoboam’s reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?

1Ki 14:30

1Ki 14:30There was continual warfare between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.

1Ki 14:31

1Ki 14:31And Rehoboam rested with his ancestors and was buried with them in the City of David. His mother’s name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite. And Abijah[fn] his son succeeded him as king.
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NIV Footnotes
Or Israel—every ruler or leader
The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.
That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah; here and elsewhere in 1 Kings
Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint (see also 2 Chron. 12:16); most Hebrew manuscripts Abijam
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