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At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
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And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray you, and disguise yourself, that you
be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get you to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah
the prophet, who spoke concerning me that I should be king over this people.
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And take with you ten loaves, and cakes, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he will
tell you what shall become of the child.
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And Jeroboam`s wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of
Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.
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And YHWH said to Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam comes to inquire of you concerning
her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shall you say to her; for it will be, when
she comes in, that she will feign herself to be another woman.
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And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door,
that he said, Come in, you wife of Jeroboam; why feign you yourself to be another?
for I am sent to you with heavy tidings.
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Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus says YHWH, the God of Israel: Seeing that as I exalted you
from among the people, and made you prince over my people Israel,
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and rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it you; and yet you have
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 have done evil above all that were before you, and have gone and made you other
gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back:
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therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off
from Jeroboam every man-child, him whom is shut up and him whom is left at large in
Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung,
till it be all gone.
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Him whom dies of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him whom dies in the
field shall the birds of the heavens eat: for YHWH has spoken it.
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Arise you therefore, get you to your house: [and] when your 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 Jeroboam shall come
to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward YHWH, the God of
Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.
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Moreover YHWH will raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of
Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.
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For YHWH will smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up
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 YHWH to anger.
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And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and
wherewith he has made Israel to sin.
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And Jeroboam`s wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: [and] as she came to
the threshold of the house, the child died.
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And all Israel buried him, and mourned for him, according to the word of YHWH, which
he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.
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And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, 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 Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his
fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
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And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years
old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city
which YHWH had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and
his mother`s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
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And Judah did that which was evil in the sight of YHWH, and they provoked him to jealousy
with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.
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For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill,
and under every green tree;
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and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations
of the nations which YHWH drove out before the children of Israel.
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And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt
came up against Jerusalem;
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and he took away the treasures of the house of YHWH, 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.
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And king Rehoboam made in their stead shields of brass, and committed them to the
hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king`s house.
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And it was so, that, as oft as the king went into the house of YHWH, the guard bare
them, and brought them back into the guard-chamber.
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Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, 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 Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
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And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of
David: and his mother`s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned
in his stead.