King James Version

1 At that time, Abijah the son of Jeroboam became ill. 2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, "Get up now and disguise yourself so they will not know that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh; behold, there is Ahijah the prophet; he spoke about me that I would be king over this people." 3 And you shall take in your hand ten loaves and parched grain and a flask of honey, and you shall come to me; he will tell you what will happen to the young man. 4 And the wife of Jeroboam did so, and she arose and went to Shiloh, and she came to the house of Ahijah, and Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim with age. 5 And the LORD said to Ahijah, "Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to inquire of you concerning her son, for he is sick. Thus and thus you shall say to her, and it shall be when she arrives that she will disguise herself." 6 And it was when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the door, that he said, "Come in, wife of Jeroboam; why are you pretending to be another? For I am sent to you with a hard message." 7 Go, say to Jeroboam, 'Thus says the LORD God of Israel: Because I have lifted you up from among the people and made you ruler over my people Israel.' 8 And I will tear the kingdom from the house of David and give it to you; and you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments and who followed me with all his heart to do only what is right in my eyes. 9 And you did evil to do all that was before you, and you went and made for yourself other gods and cast images to provoke me, and you threw my words behind your back. 10 Therefore, behold, I bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and I will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both bond and free in Israel, and I will burn up the house of Jeroboam as one burns up the refuse until it is all gone. 11 The dead in the city will be eaten by dogs, and the dead in the field will be eaten by the birds of the heavens, for the Lord has spoken. 12 And you, arise, because you will return to your house; when your feet enter the city, the child will die. 13 And all Israel will mourn for him and bury him, for he alone will come to the grave of Jeroboam, because a good word was found concerning him before the Lord God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam. 14 And the LORD will raise up for him a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam; this is the day, and what is more, now. 15 And the LORD will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water, and He will root Israel out of this good land which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their Asherim provoking the LORD. 16 And He gave Israel because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he sinned and which caused Israel to sin. 17 And the wife of Jeroboam arose and went and came to Tirzah; she came to the entrance of the house, and the boy was dead. 18 And they buried him, and all Israel mourned for him, as the word of the Lord which He spoke by the hand of His servant Ahijah the prophet. 19 And the rest of the words of Jeroboam, that he fought and that he reigned, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. 20 And the days that Jeroboam reigned were twenty-two years, and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place. 21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah for forty-one years, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD chose to put His name there from all the tribes of Israel. And his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite. 22 And Judah did the evil in the eyes of the Lord, and they were jealous of him more than all that their fathers had done in their sins which they sinned. 23 And they built for themselves high places and pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every leafy tree. 24 And also there was a holy place in the land; they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD drove out from before the children of Israel. 25 And it came to pass in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt went up against Jerusalem. 26 And he took the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the house of the king, and he took everything; and he took all the shields of gold that Solomon had made. 27 And King Rehoboam made bronze shields and placed them in the hands of the captains of the guards who were at the entrance of the house of the king. 28 And it came to pass that when the king entered the house of the Lord, the runners would carry them and return them to the place of the runners. 29 And the rest of the words of Rehoboam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 30 And there was war between Rehoboam and between Jeroboam all the days. 31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and the name of his mother was Naamah the Ammonite, and his son Abijam reigned in his place.