‏ 1 Kings 14

CHAPTER 14

Jeroboam's Wife Goes to Ahijah the Prophet

1In   that time [⁴was ill ¹Abijah ²son ³of Jeroboam]. 2And [³to  ⁴his wife ²said ¹Jeroboam], Rise up and change that they shall not know that you are  the wife of Jeroboam, and go unto Shiloh! Behold, [⁴is there ¹Ahijah ²the ³prophet], he spoke unto me   to reign over   this people. 3And take in   your hand ten bread loaves, and small cakes, and a jar of honey, and you shall go to him. He will announce to you what will be to the child. 4And [⁴did ⁵thus ¹the ²wife ³of Jeroboam]. And she rose up, and went to Shiloh, and she entered into the house of Ahijah. And the man was old   for seeing, and [²were blunted   ¹his eyes] from   his old age. 5And the lord said to Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam enters   to seek an utterance from you concerning her son, for he is ill. According to this and according to that you shall speak to her. And it came to pass in   her entering that she was as a stranger. 6And it came to pass as Ahijah heard the sound of her feet of her entering in the passage, that he said, Enter, O wife of Jeroboam! why is this you are as a stranger, and I am [²envoy ³to ⁴you ¹a harsh]?

Ahijah Speaks Judgment against Jeroboam

7In going, say to  Jeroboam, Thus says the lord    God of Israel, Because as much as I exalted you from the midst of the people, and appointed you leading over the people of Israel, 8and tore the crown of state from the house of David, and gave it to you; and yet  you have not become as   my servant David, who kept   my commandments, and who went after me with all his heart,   to do the upright thing  in my eyes. 9But you did wickedly   doing more than all as many as were in front of you. And you went and made for yourself other gods, and molten images,   to provoke me to anger, and tossed me behind you. 10On account of this behold, I bring evil to the house of Jeroboam, and I will utterly destroy of Jeroboam the one urinating against a wall, the one coming and the one being left behind in Israel. And I shall choose over the house of Jeroboam as one chooses the dung unto finishing it. 11The one having died   of Jeroboam in the city [³shall devour ¹the ²dogs]. And the one having died in the field [⁴shall devour ¹the ²birds   ³of heaven]; for the lord  spoke. 12And you, rising up, go unto your house! In the entering [²feet ¹of your] in the city [³shall die ¹the ²child]. 13And [³shall lament ⁴him ¹all ²Israel], and entomb him, for this one only shall enter   of Jeroboam to the tomb, for there shall be found in him [²word ¹a good] concerning   the lord  God of Israel among the house of Jeroboam. 14And the lord will raise up for himself a king over Israel who shall strike the house of Jeroboam this   day, and yet also indeed now. 15And the lord shall strike   Israel as [²shaken   ¹a reed] in the water. And he shall pluck out   Israel upward   [³soil   ²good ¹of this] of which he gave to  their fathers. And he shall winnow them on the other side of the river, because of as many [²they made   ¹of their sacred groves], provoking [³to anger ¹the ² lord]. 16And the lord gave   Israel favor from the sins of Jeroboam, who sinned and who led Israel into sin. 17And [⁴rose up ¹the ²wife ³of Jeroboam], and went unto Tizrah. And it came to pass as she entered in the threshold of the house, that the child died. 18And they entombed it, and [³lamented ⁴it ¹all ²Israel], according to the word of the lord, the word  he spoke by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet. 19And the extra things of Jeroboam, as much as he waged war, and as much as he reigned, behold, they are written in the scroll of the words of the days of the kings of Israel. 20And the days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty and two years. And he slept with   his fathers, and [³reigned ¹Nadab ²his son] instead of him. 21And Rehoboam son of Solomon reigned over Judah. [²a son ³being forty ⁴and ⁵one ⁶years old  ¹Rehoboam was] in   his being given reign. And seventeen years he reigned in Jerusalem, in the city in which the lord chose to put   his name there from all of the tribes   of Israel. And the name   of his mother was Naamah the Ammonitess. 22And Judah acted   wickedly before the lord, and provoked him to jealousy in all the things which [²did   ¹his fathers] in   their sins which they sinned. 23And they built for themselves high places, and monuments, and sacred groves upon every [²hill ¹high], and underneath every [²tree ¹shady]. 24And bonding together took place in the land, and they did from all the abominations of the nations which the lord removed in front of the sons of Israel.

Shishak Comes against Jerusalem

25And it came to pass in the [²year   ¹fifth] of the reigning of Rehoboam, [⁴ascended ¹Shishak ²king ³of Egypt] against Jerusalem. 26And he took all the treasures of the house of the lord, and the treasures of the house of the king, even the whole he took, and the shields   of gold which Solomon made. 27And [⁴made ¹Rehoboam ²the ³king] shields of brass instead of them, and [⁵were set in place ⁶by ⁷him ¹the ²leaders ³of the ⁴bodyguards], the ones guarding the vestibule of the house of the king. 28And it came to pass when [³entered ¹the ²king] into the house of the lord, that [³lifted ⁴them ¹the ²bodyguards], and fastened them in the vestibule of the bodyguards. 29And the rest of the words of Rehoboam, and all the things which he did, [⁴not ¹behold ³these ²are] written upon the scroll of the words of the days of the kings of Judah? 30And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days. 31And Rehoboam slept with   his fathers. And they entombed him  with   his fathers in the city of David. And the name   of his mother was Naamah the Ammonitess. And [³reigned ¹Abijam ²his son] instead of him.