1 Kings 14

1At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick.Cross-references: Ex 20:5 · 1Sam 4:19 · 1Sam 31:2 · 2Sam 12:15 · 1Ki 13:33 · 1Ki 14:12

2Jeroboam said to his wife, “Please get up and disguise yourself, so that you won’t be recognized as Jeroboam’s wife. Go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who said that I would be king over this people.Cross-references: Josh 18:1 · 1Sam 28:8 · 2Sam 14:2 · 1Ki 11:29 · 1Ki 14:5 · 1Ki 22:30 · +2 more

3Take with you ten loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will become of the child.”Cross-references: 1Sam 9:7 · 1Ki 13:7 · 2Ki 1:2 · 2Ki 4:42 · 2Ki 5:5 · 2Ki 5:15 · +4 more

4Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose and went to Shiloh, and came to Ahijah’s house. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were set by reason of his age.Cross-references: Gen 27:1 · Gen 48:10 · Deut 34:7 · Josh 18:1 · 1Sam 3:2 · 1Sam 4:3 · +6 more

5Yahweh said to Ahijah, “Behold, Jeroboam’s wife is coming to inquire of you concerning her son, for he is sick. Tell her such and such; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will pretend to be another woman.”Cross-references: 2Ki 4:27 · 2Ki 6:8 · Ps 139:1 · Prov 21:30 · Amos 3:7 · Acts 10:19

6So when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the door, he said, “Come in, Jeroboam’s wife! Why do you pretend to be another? For I am sent to you with heavy news.Cross-references: 1Sam 15:16 · 1Sam 15:26 · 1Sam 28:18 · 1Ki 13:20 · 1Ki 14:2 · 1Ki 14:5 · +17 more

7Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: “Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you prince over my people Israel,Cross-references: 1Sam 2:27 · 1Sam 15:16 · 2Sam 12:7 · 1Ki 12:24 · 1Ki 16:2

8and tore the kingdom away from David’s house, and gave it to you; and yet you have 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 my eyes,Cross-references: 1Ki 3:14 · 1Ki 11:30 · 1Ki 11:33 · 1Ki 15:5 · 2Chr 17:3 · 2Chr 28:1 · +2 more

9but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods, molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back,Cross-references: Ex 34:17 · Deut 9:8 · Deut 9:24 · Deut 32:16 · Deut 32:21 · Judg 5:8 · +24 more

10therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates on a wall, he who is shut up and he who is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung until it is all gone.Cross-references: Deut 32:36 · 1Sam 2:30 · 1Sam 25:22 · 1Sam 25:34 · 1Ki 15:25 · 1Ki 16:11 · +16 more

11The dogs will eat whoever belongs to Jeroboam who dies in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat whoever dies in the field, for Yahweh has spoken it.”’Cross-references: 1Ki 16:4 · 1Ki 21:19 · 1Ki 21:23 · Isa 66:24 · Jer 15:3 · Ezek 39:17 · +1 more

12Arise therefore, and go to your house. When your feet enter into the city, the child will die.Cross-references: 1Ki 14:3 · 1Ki 14:16 · 2Ki 1:6 · 2Ki 1:16 · John 4:50

13All Israel will mourn for him and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam will come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.Cross-references: Num 20:29 · 2Chr 12:12 · 2Chr 19:3 · Job 19:28 · Jer 22:10 · Jer 22:18 · +3 more

14Moreover Yahweh will raise up a king for himself over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is the day! What? Even now.Cross-references: 1Ki 15:27 · Eccl 8:11 · Ezek 7:2 · Ezek 12:22 · James 5:9 · 2Pet 2:3

15For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking Yahweh to anger.Cross-references: Ex 34:13 · Lev 26:32 · Lev 26:43 · Deut 4:26 · Deut 12:3 · Deut 28:36 · +20 more

16He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin.”Cross-references: Ex 32:21 · Ex 32:35 · 1Ki 12:30 · 1Ki 13:34 · 1Ki 15:30 · 1Ki 15:34 · +10 more

17Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed, and came to Tirzah. As she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.Cross-references: Josh 12:24 · 1Sam 2:20 · 1Sam 4:18 · 1Ki 14:12 · 1Ki 15:21 · 1Ki 15:33 · +4 more

18All Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.Cross-references: 1Ki 14:13

19The rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.Cross-references: 1Ki 14:29 · 1Ki 15:31 · 1Ki 16:5 · 1Ki 16:14 · 1Ki 16:20 · 1Ki 16:27 · +4 more

20The days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty two years; then he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.Cross-references: 1Ki 2:10 · 1Ki 11:43 · 1Ki 15:25 · Job 14:12 · Ps 3:5 · Ps 4:8

21Rehoboam 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, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.Cross-references: Ex 20:24 · Deut 12:5 · Deut 12:21 · Deut 23:3 · 1Ki 8:16 · 1Ki 8:44 · +10 more

22Judah did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.Cross-references: Deut 4:24 · Deut 29:28 · Deut 32:16 · Judg 3:7 · Judg 3:12 · Judg 4:1 · +11 more

23For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.Cross-references: Lev 26:1 · Deut 12:2 · Deut 16:22 · 1Ki 3:2 · 1Ki 14:15 · 2Ki 17:9 · +9 more

24There were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove out before the children of Israel.Cross-references: Gen 19:5 · Deut 23:17 · Judg 19:22 · 1Ki 15:12 · 1Ki 22:46 · 2Ki 23:7 · +2 more

25In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;Cross-references: 1Ki 11:40 · 2Chr 12:2 · 2Chr 12:9

26and he took away the treasures of Yahweh’s house and the treasures of the king’s house. He even took away all of it, including all the gold shields which Solomon had made.Cross-references: 1Ki 7:51 · 1Ki 10:16 · 1Ki 15:18 · 2Ki 24:13 · 2Chr 9:15 · 2Chr 12:9 · +4 more

27King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who guarded the door of the king’s house.Cross-references: 1Sam 8:11 · 1Sam 22:17 · 2Sam 15:1 · 1Ki 14:1 · 1Ki 14:5 · 1Ki 18:46 · +1 more

28It was so, that as often as the king went into Yahweh’s house, the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard room.Cross-references: 2Chr 12:11

29Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?Cross-references: 1Ki 11:41 · 1Ki 14:19 · 1Ki 15:23 · 1Ki 22:45 · 2Chr 12:15

30There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.Cross-references: 1Ki 12:21 · 1Ki 12:24 · 1Ki 15:6 · 2Chr 12:15

31Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. Abijam his son reigned in his place.Cross-references: 1Ki 11:43 · 1Ki 14:20 · 1Ki 15:3 · 1Ki 15:24 · 1Ki 22:50 · 1Chr 3:10 · +2 more