1At that time Abijah son of Jeroboam became ill, 2and Jeroboam said to his wife, “Now get up, disguise yourself so they will not recognize you as my wife, and go to Shiloh. For Ahijah the prophet is there; it was he who spoke about my kingship over this people.[ † ]1 Kings 11:29-31 3Take with you ten loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will become of the boy.”[ † ]1 Samuel 9:7-81 Kings 13:72 Kings 4:42
4Jeroboam’s wife did as instructed; she arose and went to Shiloh and arrived at Ahijah’s house. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age.[ † ]1 Kings 11:29 5But the Lord had said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to ask you about her son, for he is ill. You are to say such and such to her, because when she arrives, she will be disguised.”
6So when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet entering the door, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam! Why are you disguised? For I have been sent to you with bad news. 7Go, tell Jeroboam that this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I raised you up from among the people and appointed you ruler over My people Israel.[ † ]2 Samuel 12:7-81 Kings 16:2 8I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you. But you have not been like My servant David, who kept My commandments and followed Me with all his heart, doing only what was right in My eyes.[ † ]1 Kings 11:311 Kings 11:33-381 Kings 15:5
9You have done more evil than all who came before you. You have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me, and you have flung Me behind your back.[ † ]1 Kings 12:282 Chronicles 11:152 Chronicles 29:6Nehemiah 9:26Psalms 50:17
12As for you, get up and go home. When your feet enter the city, the child will die.[ † ]1 Kings 14:17 13All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. For this is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will receive a proper burial, because only in him has the Lord, the God of Israel, found any good in the house of Jeroboam.[ † ]2 Chronicles 12:122 Chronicles 19:3
14Moreover, the Lord will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is the day—yes, even today![ † ]1 Kings 15:27-29 15For the Lord will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave their fathers, and He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the Lord to anger.[ † ]Deuteronomy 29:282 Kings 17:6Psalms 52:5Joshua 23:15-162 Kings 15:29Exodus 34:13-14Deuteronomy 12:3 16So He will give Israel over on account of the sins Jeroboam has committed and has caused Israel to commit.”[ † ]1 Kings 12:301 Kings 13:341 Kings 15:30-341 Kings 16:2
17Then Jeroboam’s wife got up and departed for Tirzah, and as soon as she stepped over the threshold of the house, the boy died.[ † ]1 Kings 15:21-331 Kings 16:6-8, 15, 23Song of Solomon 6:41 Kings 14:12 18And they buried him, and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word that the Lord had spoken through His servant Ahijah the prophet.[ † ]1 Kings 14:13
19As for the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he waged war and how he reigned, they are indeed written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.[ † ]1 Kings 14:302 Chronicles 13:2-20
20And the length of Jeroboam’s reign was twenty-two years, and he rested with his fathers, and his son Nadab reigned in his place.[ † ]1 Kings 15:25
21Meanwhile, Rehoboam son of Solomon reigned 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 all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.[ † ]2 Chronicles 12:131 Kings 11:32-361 Kings 14:31
22And Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and by the sins they committed they provoked Him to jealous anger more than all their fathers had done.[ † ]2 Chronicles 12:1-14Deuteronomy 32:21Psalms 78:581 Corinthians 10:22 23They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.[ † ]Deuteronomy 12:2Ezekiel 16:24-25Deuteronomy 16:222 Kings 17:9-10Isaiah 57:5Jeremiah 2:20 24There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.[ † ]Genesis 19:5Deuteronomy 23:171 Kings 15:121 Kings 22:462 Kings 23:7Deuteronomy 20:18Deuteronomy 9:4-5
25In the fifth year of Rehoboam’s reign, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.[ † ]1 Kings 11:402 Chronicles 12:2 26He seized the treasures of the house of the Lord and of the royal palace. He took everything, including all the gold shields that Solomon had made.[ † ]1 Kings 15:182 Chronicles 12:9-111 Kings 10:17
27Then King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place and committed them to the care of the captains of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace. 28And whenever the king entered the house of the Lord, the guards would bear the shields, and later they would return them to the guardroom.
29As for the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, along with all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?[ † ]2 Chronicles 12:15-16
30There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam throughout their days.[ † ]1 Kings 12:21-241 Kings 15:6 31And Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David; his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. And his son Abijam reigned in his place.[ † ]2 Chronicles 12:161 Kings 14:21