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1 Kings 14 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

Ahijah’s Prophecy against Jeroboam

1Ki 14:1

1Ki 14:1At that time Jeroboam’s son Abijah became very sick.

1Ki 14:2

1Ki 14:2So Jeroboam told his wife, “Disguise yourself so that no one will recognize you as my wife. Then go to the prophet Ahijah at Shiloh—the man who told me I would become king.

1Ki 14:3

1Ki 14:3Take him a gift of ten loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and ask him what will happen to the boy.”

1Ki 14:4

1Ki 14:4So Jeroboam’s wife went to Ahijah’s home at Shiloh. He was an old man now and could no longer see.

1Ki 14:5

1Ki 14:5But the LORD had told Ahijah, “Jeroboam’s wife will come here, pretending to be someone else. She will ask you about her son, for he is very sick. Give her the answer I give you.”

1Ki 14:6

1Ki 14:6So when Ahijah heard her footsteps at the door, he called out, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam! Why are you pretending to be someone else?” Then he told her, “I have bad news for you.

1Ki 14:7

1Ki 14:7Give your husband, Jeroboam, this message from the LORD, the God of Israel: ‘I promoted you from the ranks of the common people and made you ruler over my people Israel.

1Ki 14:8

1Ki 14:8I ripped the kingdom away from the family of David and gave it to you. But you have not been like my servant David, who obeyed my commands and followed me with all his heart and always did whatever I wanted.

1Ki 14:9

1Ki 14:9You have done more evil than all who lived before you. You have made other gods for yourself and have made me furious with your gold calves. And since you have turned your back on me,

1Ki 14:10

1Ki 14:10I will bring disaster on your dynasty and will destroy every one of your male descendants, slave and free alike, anywhere in Israel. I will burn up your royal dynasty as one burns up trash until it is all gone.

1Ki 14:11

1Ki 14:11The members of Jeroboam’s family who die in the city will be eaten by dogs, and those who die in the field will be eaten by vultures. I, the LORD, have spoken.’”

1Ki 14:12

1Ki 14:12Then Ahijah said to Jeroboam’s wife, “Go on home, and when you enter the city, the child will die.

1Ki 14:13

1Ki 14:13All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He is the only member of your family who will have a proper burial, for this child is the only good thing that the LORD, the God of Israel, sees in the entire family of Jeroboam.

1Ki 14:14

1Ki 14:14“In addition, the LORD will raise up a king over Israel who will destroy the family of Jeroboam. This will happen today, even now!

1Ki 14:15

1Ki 14:15Then the LORD will shake Israel like a reed whipped about in a stream. He will uproot the people of Israel from this good land that he gave their ancestors and will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River,[fn] for they have angered the LORD with the Asherah poles they have set up for worship.

1Ki 14:16

1Ki 14:16He will abandon Israel because Jeroboam sinned and made Israel sin along with him.”

1Ki 14:17

1Ki 14:17So Jeroboam’s wife returned to Tirzah, and the child died just as she walked through the door of her home.

1Ki 14:18

1Ki 14:18And all Israel buried him and mourned for him, as the LORD had promised through the prophet Ahijah.

1Ki 14:19

1Ki 14:19The rest of the events in Jeroboam’s reign, including all his wars and how he ruled, are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Israel.

1Ki 14:20

1Ki 14:20Jeroboam reigned in Israel twenty-two years. When Jeroboam died, his son Nadab became the next king.
Rehoboam Rules in Judah
(2Ch 11:5—12:16 )

1Ki 14:21

1Ki 14:21Meanwhile, Rehoboam 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 from among all the tribes of Israel as the place to honor his name. Rehoboam’s mother was Naamah, an Ammonite woman.

1Ki 14:22

1Ki 14:22During Rehoboam’s reign, the people of Judah did what was evil in the LORD’s sight, provoking his anger with their sin, for it was even worse than that of their ancestors.

1Ki 14:23

1Ki 14:23For they also built for themselves pagan shrines and set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

1Ki 14:24

1Ki 14:24There were even male and female shrine prostitutes throughout the land. The people imitated the detestable practices of the pagan nations the LORD had driven from the land ahead of the Israelites.

1Ki 14:25

1Ki 14:25In the fifth year of King Rehoboam’s reign, King Shishak of Egypt came up and attacked Jerusalem.

1Ki 14:26

1Ki 14:26He ransacked the treasuries of the LORD’s Temple and the royal palace; he stole everything, including all the gold shields Solomon had made.

1Ki 14:27

1Ki 14:27King Rehoboam later replaced them with bronze shields as substitutes, and he entrusted them to the care of the commanders of the guard who protected the entrance to the royal palace.

1Ki 14:28

1Ki 14:28Whenever the king went to the Temple of the LORD, the guards would also take the shields and then return them to the guardroom.

1Ki 14:29

1Ki 14:29The rest of the events in Rehoboam’s reign and everything he did are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Judah.

1Ki 14:30

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

1Ki 14:31

1Ki 14:31When Rehoboam died, he was buried among his ancestors in the City of David. His mother was Naamah, an Ammonite woman. Then his son Abijam[fn] became the next king.
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NLT Footnotes
Hebrew the river.
Also known as Abijah.
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