1 Kings 14

Revised Geneva Translation

14 At that time, Abijah, the son of Jeroboam, fell sick.

² And Jeroboam said to his wife, “Up, please, and disguise yourself, so that they do not know that you are the wife of Jeroboam. And go to Shiloh. For Ahijah the Prophet is there, who told me that I would be king over this people.

³ “And take with you ten loaves, and cakes, and a bottle of honey, and go to him. He shall tell you what shall become of the young man.”

⁴ And Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see, for his sight was decayed because of his age.

⁵ Then the LORD said to Ahijah: “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam comes to ask something of you for her son, for he is sick. (Thus and thus) shall you say to her when she comes in. She shall pretend to be another.”

⁶ Therefore, 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? I am sent to you with heavy tidings.

⁷ “Go tell Jeroboam, ‘Thus says the LORD God of Israel: “Because I have exalted you among the people, and have made you prince over My people Israel,

⁸ “and have torn the kingdom away from the House of David and have given it to you. And you have not been as My servant David, who kept My Commandments and followed Me with all his heart and did only that which was right in My Eyes,

⁹ “but have done evil above all who were before you (for you have gone and made yourself other gods and molten images, to provoke Me, and have cast Me behind your back),

¹⁰ “therefore behold, I will bring evil upon the House of Jeroboam, and will cut off every male from Jeroboam, as well him who is shut up, as him who is left in Israel, and will sweep away the remnant of the House of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung until it is all gone.

¹¹ “The dogs shall eat him of Jeroboam who dies in the city, and the birds of the air shall eat him who dies in the field. For the LORD has said it.”’

¹² “Up, therefore, and get to your house! For when your feet enter into the city, the child shall die.

¹³ “And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him. For only he of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some goodness toward the LORD God of Israel in the House of Jeroboam.

¹⁴ “Moreover, the LORD shall stir himself up a king over Israel, who shall destroy the House of Jeroboam on that day. What? Yea, even now!

¹⁵ “For the LORD shall strike Israel, as when a reed is shaken in the water. And He shall weed Israel out of this good land which He gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made themselves groves, provoking the LORD to anger.

¹⁶ “And He shall give Israel up, because of the sins of Jeroboam, who sinned and made Israel sin.”

¹⁷ And Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed and came to Tirzah. And when she came to the threshold of the house, the young man died.

¹⁸ And they buried him. And all Israel lamented him, according to the Word of the LORD which He spoke by the hand of his servant, Ahijah the Prophet.

¹⁹ And the rest of Jeroboam’s acts, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

²⁰ And the days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty-two years. And he slept with his fathers. And Nadab, his son, reigned in his place.

²¹ Also Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD chose out of all the tribes of Israel to put His Name. And his mother’s name was Naamah, an Ammonite.

²² And Judah worked wickedness in the sight of the LORD. And they provoked Him more with their sins which they had committed than all that which their fathers had done.

²³ For they also made themselves high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

²⁴ There were also Sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD has cast out before the children of Israel.

²⁵ And in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem

²⁶ and took the treasures from the House of the LORD, and the treasures from the king’s house, and took it all away. So, he carried away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

²⁷ And King Rehoboam made bronze shields for them and committed them into the hands of the chief of the guard, who waited at the door of the king’s house.

²⁸ And when the king went into the House of the LORD, the guard bore them and brought them back into the guard chamber.

²⁹ And 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?

³⁰ And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

³¹ And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the City of David. His mother’s name was Naamah, an Ammonite. And Abijam, his son, reigned in his place.