1 Kings 14
Ahijah's Prophecy
against Jeroboam |
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At that time Abi'jah the son of Jerobo'am
fell sick.
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And Jerobo'am said to his wife, Arise, I
pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the
wife of Jerobo'am; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahi'jah the prophet, which told me that I should be king over
this people.
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And take with thee ten loaves, and
cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee
what shall become of the child.
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And Jerobo'am's wife did so, and arose,
and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahi'jah. But Ahi'jah
could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.
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And the LORD said
unto Ahi'jah, Behold, the wife of Jerobo'am cometh to ask a thing of
thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou
say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall
feign herself to be another woman.
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And it was so, when Ahi'jah
heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he
said, Come in, thou wife of Jerobo'am; why feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.
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Go, tell Jerobo'am, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from
among the people, and made thee prince over my people
Israel,
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and rent the kingdom away from the house
of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my
servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with
all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine
eyes;
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but hast done evil above all that were
before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten
images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy
back:
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therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon
the house of Jerobo'am, and will cut off from Jerobo'am him that
pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in
Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jerobo'am, 1
Kgs. 15.29 as a man taketh away dung, till it be all
gone.
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Him that dieth of Jerobo'am in the city
shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls
of the air eat: for the LORD hath spoken it.
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Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine
own house: and when thy feet enter into the city, the child
shall die.
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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 some good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of
Jerobo'am.
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Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house
of Jerobo'am that day: but what? even now.
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For the LORD shall
smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up
Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and
shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their
groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
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And he shall give Israel up because of
the sins of Jerobo'am, who did sin, and who made Israel to
sin.
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And Jerobo'am's wife arose, and
departed, and came to Tirzah: and when she came to the
threshold of the door, the child died;
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and they buried him; and all Israel
mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his servant
Ahi'jah the prophet.
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And 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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And the days which Jerobo'am reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and
Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
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The Reign of
Rehoboam |
| 2 Chr. 12.1-16 |
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And Rehobo'am the son of Solomon
reigned in Judah. Rehobo'am was forty and one years old when
he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the
city which the LORD did choose out of all the
tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Na'amah an Ammonitess.
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And Judah did evil in the sight of the
LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with
their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers
had done.
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For they also built them high places, and
images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. 2
Kgs. 17.9, 10
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And there were also sodomites Deut.
23.17 in the land: and they did according to all
the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
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And it came to pass in the fifth year
of king Rehobo'am, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against
Jerusalem: 2 Chr. 12.2-8
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and he took away the treasures of the
house of the LORD, and the treasures of the
king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the
shields of gold which Solomon had made. 1 Kgs. 10.16, 17 ยท 2 Chr. 9.15, 16
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And king Rehobo'am made in their stead
brazen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the
chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king's
house.
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And it was so, when the king went
into the house of the LORD, that the guard bare
them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.
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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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And there was war between Rehobo'am and
Jerobo'am all their days.
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And Rehobo'am slept with his fathers, and
was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother's
name was Na'amah an Ammonitess. And Abi'jam his son reigned
in his stead.
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