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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 NIV</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="../">NIV</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">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/1_kings/14.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Ahijah’s Prophecy Against Jeroboam</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>At that time Abijah son of Jeroboam became ill, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>and Jeroboam said to his wife, “Go, disguise yourself, so you won’t be recognized as the wife of Jeroboam. Then go to Shiloh. Ahijah the prophet is there—the one who told me I would be king over this people. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Take ten loaves of bread with you, some cakes and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>So Jeroboam’s wife did what he said and went to Ahijah’s house in Shiloh.</p><p class="reg">Now Ahijah could not see; his sight was gone because of his age. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But the <span class="name">Lord</span> had told Ahijah, “Jeroboam’s wife is coming to ask you about her son, for he is ill, and you are to give her such and such an answer. When she arrives, she will pretend to be someone else.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So when Ahijah heard the sound of her footsteps at the door, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why this pretense? I have been sent to you with bad news. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Go, tell Jeroboam that this is what the <span class="name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, says: ‘I raised you up from among the people and appointed you ruler over my people Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I 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 commands and followed me with all his heart, doing only what was right in my eyes. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>You have done more evil than all who lived before you. You have made for yourself other gods, idols made of metal; you have aroused my anger and turned your back on me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“ ‘Because of this, I am going to bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam. I will cut off from Jeroboam every last male in Israel—slave or free. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or Israel--every ruler or leader">a</a></sup></span> I will burn up the house of Jeroboam as one burns dung, until it is all gone. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Dogs will eat those belonging to Jeroboam who die in the city, and the birds will feed on those who die in the country. The <span class="name">Lord</span> has spoken!’</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“As for you, go back home. When you set foot in your city, the boy will die. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will be buried, because he is the only one in the house of Jeroboam in whom the <span class="name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, has found anything good.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“The <span class="name">Lord</span> will raise up for himself a king over Israel who will cut off the family of Jeroboam. Even now this is beginning to happen. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.">b</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And the <span class="name">Lord</span> will strike Israel, so that it will be like a reed swaying in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that he gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they aroused the <span class="name">Lord</span>’s anger by making Asherah poles. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah; here and elsewhere in 1 Kings">c</a></sup></span> <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 Jeroboam has committed and has caused Israel to commit.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then Jeroboam’s wife got up and left and went to Tirzah. As soon as she stepped over the threshold of the house, the boy died. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>They buried him, and all Israel mourned for him, as the <span class="name">Lord</span> had said through his servant the prophet Ahijah.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The other events of Jeroboam’s reign, his wars and how he ruled, are written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>He reigned for twenty-two years and then rested with his ancestors. And Nadab his son succeeded him as king.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Rehoboam King of Judah</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Rehoboam son of Solomon was king in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the <span class="name">Lord</span> had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel in which to put his Name. His mother’s name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Judah did evil in the eyes of the <span class="name">Lord</span>. By the sins they committed they stirred up his jealous anger more than those who were before them had done. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>They also set up for themselves high places, sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land; the people engaged in all the detestable practices of the nations the <span class="name">Lord</span> had driven out before the Israelites.</p> <p class="reg"><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 attacked Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>He carried off the treasures of the temple of the <span class="name">Lord</span> and the treasures of the royal palace. He took everything, including all the gold shields Solomon had made. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned these to the commanders of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Whenever the king went to the <span class="name">Lord</span>’s temple, the guards bore the shields, and afterward they returned them to the guardroom.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>As for the other events of Rehoboam’s reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>There was continual warfare between Rehoboam and Jeroboam. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/14-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And Rehoboam rested with his ancestors and was buried with them in the City of David. His mother’s name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite. And Abijah <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint (see also 2 Chron. 12:16); most Hebrew manuscripts Abijam">d</a></sup></span> his son succeeded him as king.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>Israel—every ruler or leader</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> <span class="footnotebot">The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah; here and elsewhere in 1 Kings</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">31</span> <span class="footnotebot">Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint (see also 2 Chron. 12:16); most Hebrew manuscripts <i>Abijam</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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