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Jeroboam's Wife Comes to the Blind Prophet Ahijah
by emmanuel_higgins
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1 Kings 14:1
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At that time
Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
2
And 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 Shiloh: behold, there
is
Ahijah the prophet, which told me that
I should be
king over this people.
3
And take 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.
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 eyes were set by reason of his age.
5
And the
L
ORD
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
.
6
And 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
.
7
Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the
L
ORD
God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel,
8
And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and
yet
thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do
that
only
which was
right in mine eyes;
9
But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:
10
Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall,
and
him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.
11
Him 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
L
ORD
hath spoken
it
.
12
Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house:
and
when thy feet enter into 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 there is found
some
good thing toward the
L
ORD
God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
14
Moreover the
L
ORD
shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.
15
For the
L
ORD
shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the
L
ORD
to anger.
16
And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.
17
And Jeroboam’s wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah:
and
when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;
18
And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the
L
ORD
, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.
19
And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, 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
two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
21
And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam
was
forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the
L
ORD
did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother’s name
was
Naamah an Ammonitess.
22
And Judah did evil in the sight of the
L
ORD
, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
23
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
24
And there were also sodomites in the land:
and
they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the
L
ORD
cast out before the children of Israel.
25
And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam,
that
Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:
26
And he took away the treasures of the house of the
L
ORD
, and the treasures of the king’s house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
27
And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed
them
unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king’s house.
28
And it was
so
, when the king went into the house of the
L
ORD
, that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.
29
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
And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all
their
days.
31
And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother’s name
was
Naamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.
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