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Then go to Shiloh, where you will find Ahijah the prophet. It was he who spoke the word that made me king over this people. <span id="v11014003" class="ver">3</span>Take along ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will happen to the child.” <span id="v11014004" class="ver">4</span>The wife of Jeroboam did so. She left and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah.</p> <p>Now Ahijah could not see because age had dimmed his sight. <span id="v11014005" class="ver">5</span>But the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> said to Ahijah: Jeroboam’s wife is coming to consult you about her son, for he is sick. Thus and so you must tell her. When she comes, she will be in disguise. <span id="v11014006" class="ver">6</span>So Ahijah, hearing the sound of her footsteps as she entered the door, said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why are you in disguise? For my part, I have been commissioned to give you bitter news. <span id="v11014007" class="ver">7</span>Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Thus says the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, the God of Israel: I exalted you from among the people and made you ruler of my people Israel. <span id="v11014008" class="ver">8</span>I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you. Yet you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me with his whole heart, doing only what is right in my sight. <span id="v11014009" class="ver">9</span>You have done more evil than all who were before you: you have gone and made for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke me; but me you have cast behind your back. <span id="v11014010" class="ver">10</span><a id="ren11014010-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en11014010-b">b</a> Therefore, I am bringing evil upon the house of Jeroboam:</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf">I will cut off from Jeroboam’s line every male</p> <p class="sl1">—bond or free—in Israel;</p> <p class="sl">I will burn up what is left of the house of Jeroboam</p> <p class="sl1">as dung is burned, completely.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v11014011" class="ver">11</span><a id="ren11014011-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en11014011-c">c</a> Anyone of Jeroboam’s line who dies in the city,</p> <p class="sl1">dogs will devour;</p> <p class="sl">anyone who dies in the field,</p> <p class="sl1l">the birds of the sky will devour.</p> </div> <p class="pcon">For the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> has spoken!’ <span id="v11014012" class="ver">12</span>As for you, leave, and go home! As you step inside the city, the child will die, <span id="v11014013" class="ver">13</span>and all Israel will mourn him and bury him, for he alone of Jeroboam’s line will be laid in the grave, since in him alone of Jeroboam’s house has something pleasing to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, been found. <span id="v11014014" class="ver">14</span>The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> will raise up for himself a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam—today, at this very moment! <span id="v11014015" class="ver">15</span>The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> will strike Israel like a reed tossed about in the water and will pluck out Israel from this good land which he gave their ancestors, and will scatter them beyond the River,<a id="rfn11014015-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn11014015-1">*</a> because they made asherahs for themselves, provoking the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>. <span id="v11014016" class="ver">16</span>He will give up Israel because of the sins Jeroboam has committed and caused Israel to commit.” <span id="v11014017" class="ver">17</span>So Jeroboam’s wife left and went back; when she came to Tirzah and crossed the threshold of her house, the child died. <span id="v11014018" class="ver">18</span>He was buried and all Israel mourned him, according to the word of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> spoken through his servant Ahijah the prophet.</p> <p><span id="v11014019" class="ver">19</span>The rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought and how he reigned, these are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. <span id="v11014020" class="ver">20</span>The length of Jeroboam’s reign was twenty-two years. He rested with his ancestors, and Nadab his son succeeded him as king.</p> <h1 class="bksect">III. <span class="ac">Kings of Judah and Israel</span><a id="rfn11014021-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn11014021-1">*</a></h1> <p class="paft"><span class="hemb">Reign of Rehoboam.</span> <span id="v11014021" class="ver">21</span><a id="rfn11014021-2" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn11014021-2">*</a> Rehoboam, son of Solomon, became king in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city in which, out of all the tribes of Israel, the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> chose to set his name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.</p> <p><span id="v11014022" class="ver">22</span>Judah did evil in the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>’s sight and they angered him even more than their ancestors had done. <span id="v11014023" class="ver">23</span>They, too, built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and asherahs,<a id="rfn11014023-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn11014023-1">*</a> upon every high hill and under every green tree. <span id="v11014024" class="ver">24</span>There were also pagan priests in the land. Judah imitated all the abominable practices of the nations whom the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> had driven out of the Israelites’ way. <span id="v11014025" class="ver">25</span><a id="rfn11014025-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn11014025-1">*</a> In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, attacked Jerusalem. <span id="v11014026" class="ver">26</span><a id="ren11014026-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en11014026-d">d</a> He took everything, including the treasures of the house of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> and the treasures of the house of the king, even the gold shields Solomon had made. <span id="v11014027" class="ver">27</span>To replace them, King Rehoboam made bronze shields, which he entrusted to the officers of the guard on duty at the entrance of the royal house. <span id="v11014028" class="ver">28</span>Whenever the king visited the house of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, those on duty would carry the shields, and then return them to the guardroom.</p> <p><span id="v11014029" class="ver">29</span>The rest of the acts of Rehoboam, with all that he did, are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah. <span id="v11014030" class="ver">30</span>There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days. <span id="v11014031" class="ver">31</span>Rehoboam rested with his ancestors; he was buried with his ancestors in the City of David. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. His son Abijam succeeded him as king.</p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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