1 Kings 14:1–20

At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. ²And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to ^aShiloh: behold, there is ^bAhijah the prophet, which told me that ^bI should be king over this people. ³And ^ctake ^†with thee ten loaves, and ^||cracknels, and a ^||cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child. ⁴And Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose, and went to ^aShiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes ^†were set by reason of his age. ⁵And the Lord said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman. ⁶And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee with ^†heavy tidings. ⁷Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, ^dForasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel, ⁸And ^erent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, ^fwho kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes; ⁹But hast done evil above all that were before thee: ^gfor thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and ^hmolten images, to provoke me to anger, and ^i*hast cast me behind thy back: ¹⁰Therefore, behold, ^jI will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam ^khim that pisseth against the wall, ^land him that is shut up and left in Israel, and ^mwill take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone. ¹¹ⁿHim that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the Lord hath spoken it. ¹²Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die. ¹³And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him ^othere is found some good thing toward the Lord God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam. ^14pMoreover the Lord shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: ^qbut what? even now. ¹⁵For the Lord shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall ^rroot up Israel out of this ^sgood land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them ^tbeyond the river, ^ubecause they have made their groves, ^vprovoking the Lord to anger. ¹⁶And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and ^wwho made Israel to sin. ¹⁷And Jeroboam’s wife arose, and departed, and came to ^xTirzah: and when she came to the ^ythreshold of the door, the child died; ¹⁸And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, ^zaccording to the word of the Lord, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet. ¹⁹And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he ^awarred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. ²⁰And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he ^†slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.