1 Kings 14

Prophecy Against Jeroboam

1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. 2 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 g Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, h who said of me that I should be king over this people. 3 i 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."

4 Jeroboam's wife did so. She arose and went to g Shiloh and came to the house of j Ahijah. Now j Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age.

5 And the Lord said to j 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." When she came, she pretended to be another woman. 6 But when j 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. 7 Go, tell Jeroboam, 'Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: k "Because I exalted you from among the people and made you leader over my people Israel 8 and l tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you, and yet you have not been m like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me with all his heart, doing only that which was right in my eyes, 9 but you have done evil above all who were before you and have gone and n made for yourself other gods and o metal images, provoking me to anger, and p have cast me behind your back, 10 therefore behold, I will bring harm upon the house of Jeroboam and q will cut off from Jeroboam every male, r both bond and free in Israel, and s will burn up the house of Jeroboam, as a man burns up dung until it is all gone. 11 t 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 Lord has spoken it."' 12 Arise therefore, go to your house. u When your feet enter the city, the child shall die. 13 And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him v there is found something pleasing to the Lord, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam. 14 w Moreover, the Lord will raise up for himself a king over Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam today. And henceforth, 15 the Lord will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water, and x root up Israel out of y this good land that he gave to their fathers and scatter them z beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their a Asherim, provoking the Lord to anger. 16 And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he sinned and made Israel to sin."

17 Then Jeroboam's wife arose and departed and came to b Tirzah. And c as she came to the threshold of the house, the child died. 18 And all Israel buried him and mourned for him, d according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.

The Death of Jeroboam

19 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, e 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 time that Jeroboam reigned was twenty-two years. And he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.

Rehoboam Reigns in Judah

21 f 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, g the city that the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. h His mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite. 22 i And Judah did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and they j provoked him to jealousy with their sins that they committed, more than all that their fathers had done. 23 For they also built for themselves k high places l and pillars and m Asherim on every high hill and n under every green tree, 24 and there were also o male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.

25 p In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. 26 He took away the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king's house. q He took away everything. He also took away all the shields of gold r that Solomon had made, 27 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. 28 And as often as the king went into the house of the Lord, the guard carried them and brought them back to the guardroom.

29 s 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? 30 t 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. u His mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite. And v Abijam his son reigned in his place.

  1. Cross References
    Joshua 18:1
    Then the whole congregation of the people of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there. The land lay subdued before them.
  2. Cross References
    1 Kings 11:29 - 31
    And at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the road. Now Ahijah had dressed himself in a new garment, and the two of them were alone in the open country.
  3. Cross References
    1 Samuel 9:7 - 8
    Then Saul said to his servant, "But if we go, what can we bring the man? For the bread in our sacks is gone, and there is no present to bring to the man of God. What do we have?
  4. Cross References
    1 Kings 14:2
    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.
  5. Cross References
    1 Kings 11:29
    And at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the road. Now Ahijah had dressed himself in a new garment, and the two of them were alone in the open country.
  6. Cross References
    1 Kings 11:29
    And at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the road. Now Ahijah had dressed himself in a new garment, and the two of them were alone in the open country.
  7. Cross References
    1 Kings 14:4
    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.
  8. Cross References
    1 Kings 14:4
    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.
  9. Cross References
    1 Kings 16:2
    Since I exalted you out of the dust and made you leader over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made my people Israel to sin, provoking me to anger with their sins.
    2 Samuel 12:7 - 8
    Nathan said to David, "You are the man! Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
  10. Cross References
    1 Kings 11:31
    And he said to Jeroboam, "Take for yourself ten pieces, for thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, 'Behold, I am about to tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon and will give you ten tribes
  11. Cross References
    1 Kings 11:33
    Because they have forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and they have not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my rules, as David his father did.
    1 Kings 11:38
    And if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do what is right in my eyes by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, I will be with you and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.
    1 Kings 15:5
    Because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
    1 Kings 9:4
    And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my rules.
  12. Cross References
    1 Kings 12:28
    So the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. And he said to the people, "You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. Behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
    2 Chronicles 11:15
    And he appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat idols and for the calves that he had made.
  13. Cross References
    Exodus 34:17
    You shall not make for yourself any gods of cast metal.
  14. Cross References
    Ezekiel 23:35
    Therefore thus says the Lord God : Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, you yourself must bear the consequences of your lewdness and whoring.
    Nehemiah 9:26
    Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their back and killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you, and they committed great blasphemies.
    Psalms 50:17
    For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.
  15. Cross References
    1 Kings 21:21
    Behold, I will bring disaster upon you. I will utterly burn you up, and will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel.
    2 Kings 9:8
    For the whole house of Ahab shall perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel.
  16. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 32:36
    For the Lord will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone and there is none remaining, bond or free.
    2 Kings 14:26
    For the Lord saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter, for there was none left, bond or free, and there was none to help Israel.
  17. Cross References
    1 Kings 16:3
    Behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
  18. Cross References
    1 Kings 16:4
    Anyone belonging to Baasha who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone of his who dies in the field the birds of the heavens shall eat.
    1 Kings 21:24
    Anyone belonging to Ahab who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone of his who dies in the open country the birds of the heavens shall eat.
  19. Cross References
    1 Kings 14:17
    Then Jeroboam's wife arose and departed and came to Tirzah. And as she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.
  20. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 12:12
    And when he humbled himself the wrath of the Lord turned from him, so as not to make a complete destruction. Moreover, conditions were good in Judah.
    2 Chronicles 19:3
    Nevertheless, some good is found in you, for you destroyed the Asherahs out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.
  21. Cross References
    1 Kings 15:27 - 29
    Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him. And Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, for Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon.
  22. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 29:28
    And the Lord uprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath, and cast them into another land, as they are this day.
    Psalms 52:5
    But God will break you down forever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
    Proverbs 2:22
    But the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.
  23. Cross References
    Joshua 23:15 - 16
    But just as all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you have been fulfilled for you, so the Lord will bring upon you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land that the Lord your God has given you.
  24. Cross References
    2 Kings 15:29
    In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria.
  25. Cross References
    Exodus 34:13
    You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim
    Deuteronomy 12:3
    You shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their Asherim with fire. You shall chop down the carved images of their gods and destroy their name out of that place.
  26. Cross References
    1 Kings 15:21
    And when Baasha heard of it, he stopped buildin...
    1 Kings 15:33
    In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha ...
    1 Kings 16:6
    And Baasha slept with his fathers and was burie...
    1 Kings 16:8
    In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, ...
    1 Kings 16:15
    In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah...
    1 Kings 16:23
    In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, ...
  27. Cross References
    1 Kings 14:12
    Arise therefore, go to your house. When your feet enter the city, the child shall die.
  28. Cross References
    1 Kings 14:13
    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 Lord, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.
  29. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 13:2 - 20
    He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. Now there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
  30. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 12:13
    So King Rehoboam grew strong in Jerusalem and reigned. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite.
  31. Cross References
    1 Kings 11:32
    (but he shall have one tribe, for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel).
    1 Kings 11:36
    Yet to his son I will give one tribe, that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen to put my name.
  32. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 12:13
    So King Rehoboam grew strong in Jerusalem and reigned. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite.
  33. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 12:1
    When the rule of Rehoboam was established and he was strong, he abandoned the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.
    2 Chronicles 12:14
    And he did evil, for he did not set his heart to seek the Lord.
  34. Cross References
    Numbers 25:11
    Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in my jealousy.
  35. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 12:2
    You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
  36. Cross References
    Exodus 23:24
    You shall not bow down to their gods nor serve them, nor do as they do, but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their pillars in pieces.
  37. Cross References
    1 Kings 14:15
    The Lord 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, because they have made their Asherim, provoking the Lord to anger.
  38. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 12:2
    You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
    2 Kings 16:4
    And he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.
    Isaiah 57:5
    You who burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
    Jeremiah 2:20
    For long ago I broke your yoke and burst your bonds; but you said, 'I will not serve.' Yes, on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed down like a whore.
  39. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 23:17
    None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, and none of the sons of Israel shall be a cult prostitute.
  40. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 12:2
    In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, because they had been unfaithful to the Lord, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem
    2 Chronicles 12:9 - 11
    So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. He took away the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king's house. He took away everything. He also took away the shields of gold that Solomon had made.
  41. Cross References
    1 Kings 15:18
    Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king's house and gave them into the hands of his servants. And King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived in Damascus, saying.
  42. Cross References
    1 Kings 10:17
    And he made 300 shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went into each shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
  43. Cross References
    1 Kings 14:29 - 31
    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?
    2 Chronicles 12:15 - 16
    Now the acts of Rehoboam, from first to last, are they not written in the chronicles of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer? There were continual wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.
  44. Cross References
    1 Kings 15:6
    Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
    1 Kings 12:21 - 24
    When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, 180,000 chosen warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
  45. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 12:13
    So King Rehoboam grew strong in Jerusalem and reigned. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite.
  46. Cross References
    Matthew 1:7
    And Solomon the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asaph.
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