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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>1 Kings 14 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_kings/14.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_kings/14-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > 1 Kings 14</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_kings/13.htm" title="1 Kings 13">◄</a> 1 Kings 14 <a href="../1_kings/15.htm" title="1 Kings 15">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/1_kings/14.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Prophecy Against Jeroboam</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And Jeroboam said to his wife, “Arise, and disguise yourself, that it not be known that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who said of me that I should be king over this people. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what shall happen to the child.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Jeroboam’s wife did so. She arose and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to inquire of you concerning her son, for he is sick. Thus and thus shall you say to her.”</p><p class="regular">When she came, she pretended to be another woman. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why do you pretend to be another? For I am charged with unbearable news for you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel: “Because I exalted you from among the people and made you leader over my people Israel <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>and tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you, and yet you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me with all his heart, doing only that which was right in my eyes, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>but you have done evil above all who were before you and have gone and made for yourself other gods and metal images, provoking me to anger, and have cast me behind your back, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>therefore behold, I will bring harm upon the house of Jeroboam and will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both bond and free in Israel, and will burn up the house of Jeroboam, as a man burns up dung until it is all gone. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone who dies in the open country the birds of the heavens shall eat, for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has spoken it.”’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Arise therefore, go to your house. When your feet enter the city, the child shall die. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>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 something pleasing to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Moreover, the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will raise up for himself a king over Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam today. And henceforth, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water, and root up Israel out of this good land that he gave to their fathers and scatter them beyond the Euphrates,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew the River">a</a></sup></span> because they have made their Asherim, provoking the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> to anger. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he sinned and made Israel to sin.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed and came to Tirzah. And as she came to the threshold of the house, the child died. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And all Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.</p> <p class="heading">The Death of Jeroboam</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Now 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And the time that Jeroboam reigned was twenty-two years. And he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.</p> <p class="heading">Rehoboam Reigns in Judah</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And Judah did what was evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins that they committed, more than all that their fathers had done. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For they also built for themselves high places and pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>and there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> drove out before the people of Israel.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>He took away the treasures of the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and the treasures of the king’s house. He took away everything. He also took away all the shields of gold that Solomon had made, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>and King Rehoboam made in their place shields of bronze, and committed them to the hands of the officers of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And as often as the king went into the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the guard carried them and brought them back to the guardroom.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>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? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. And Abijam his son reigned in his place.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">the</span> River</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. Unauthorized reproduction of this publication is prohibited. 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