Verse 7

1 Kings 14:7

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7 Go, say to Jeroboam, These are the words of the Lord, the God (Elohim) of Israel: Though I took you from among the people, lifting you up to be a ruler over my people Israel,

Original Language Text

hebrew

לְכִ֞י אִמְרִ֣י לְ/יָרָבְעָ֗ם כֹּֽה אָמַ֤ר יְהוָה֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל יַ֛עַן אֲשֶׁ֥ר הֲרִימֹתִ֖י/ךָ מִ/תּ֣וֹךְ הָ/עָ֑ם וָ/אֶתֶּנְ/ךָ֣ נָגִ֔יד עַ֖ל עַמִּ֥/י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל

English Translation

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.'

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Chapter 14 Context

1 At that time Abijah, the son of Jeroboam, became ill. Focus ↗

2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Now come, put on different clothing so that you may not seem to be th... Focus ↗

3 And take with you ten cakes of bread and dry cakes and a pot of honey, and go to him: he will give y... Focus ↗

4 So Jeroboam's wife did so, and got up and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah... Focus ↗

5 And the Lord had said to Ahijah, The wife of Jeroboam is coming to get news from you about her son,... Focus ↗

6 Then Ahijah, hearing the sound of her footsteps coming in at the door, said, Come in, O wife of Jero... Focus ↗

7 Go, say to Jeroboam, These are the words of the Lord, the God (Elohim) of Israel: Though I took you...

8 And took the kingdom away by force from the seed of David and gave it to you, you have not been like... Focus ↗

9 But you have done evil more than any before you, and have made for yourself other gods, and images o... Focus ↗

10 So I will send evil on the line of Jeroboam, cutting off from his family every male child, those who... Focus ↗

11 Those of the family of Jeroboam who come to death in the town, will become food for the dogs; and th... Focus ↗

12 Up, then! go back to your house; and in the hour when your feet go into the town, the death of the c... Focus ↗

13 And all Israel will put his body to rest, weeping over him, because he only of the family of Jeroboa... Focus ↗

14 And the Lord will put up a king over Israel who will send destruction on the family of Jeroboam in t... Focus ↗

15 And even now the hand of the Lord has come down on Israel, shaking it like a river-grass in the wate... Focus ↗

16 And he will give Israel up because of the sins which Jeroboam has done and made Israel do. Focus ↗

17 Then Jeroboam's wife got up and went away and came to Tirzah; and when she came to the doorway of th... Focus ↗

18 And all Israel put his body to rest, weeping over him, as the Lord had said by his servant Ahijah th... Focus ↗

19 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he made war and how he became king, are recorded in the bo... Focus ↗

20 And Jeroboam was king for twenty-two years, and was put to rest with his fathers, and Nadab his son... Focus ↗

21 And Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, was king in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became... Focus ↗

22 And Judah did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and made him more angry than their fathers had done by t... Focus ↗

23 For they made high places and upright stones and wood pillars on every high hill and under every gre... Focus ↗

24 And more than this, there were those in the land who were used for sex purposes in the worship of th... Focus ↗

25 Now in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem; Focus ↗

26 And took away all the stored wealth from the house of the Lord, and from the king's house, and all t... Focus ↗

27 So in their place King Rehoboam had other body-covers made of brass, and gave them into the care of... Focus ↗

28 And whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, the armed men went with him taking the body-c... Focus ↗

29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the histo... Focus ↗

30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days. Focus ↗

31 And Rehoboam went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth with his fathers in the town... Focus ↗

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Book: 1 Kings
Chapter: Chapter 14 (31 verses)
Version: Bible in Basic English

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