English Bible Presentation Sharing - 1-Kings Book, chapter 14, verse 13 in Hcsb Version

1 Kings 14 : 1 (HCSB)

At that time Abijah son of Jeroboam became sick.

1 Kings 14 : 2 (HCSB)

Jeroboam said to his wife, "Go disguise yourself, so they won't know that you're Jeroboam's wife, and go to Shiloh. Ahijah the prophet is there; it was he who told about me becoming king over this people.

1 Kings 14 : 3 (HCSB)

Take with you 10 loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy."

1 Kings 14 : 4 (HCSB)

Jeroboam's wife did that: she went to Shiloh and arrived at Ahijah's house. Ahijah could not see; his gaze was fixed due to his age.

1 Kings 14 : 5 (HCSB)

But the LORD had said to Ahijah, "Jeroboam's wife is coming soon to ask you about her son, for he is sick. You are to say such and such to her. When she arrives, she will be disguised."

1 Kings 14 : 6 (HCSB)

When Ahijah heard the sound of her feet entering the door, he said, "Come in, wife of Jeroboam! Why are you disguised? I have bad news for you.

1 Kings 14 : 7 (HCSB)

Go tell Jeroboam, 'This is what the LORD God of Israel says: I raised you up from among the people, appointed you ruler over My people Israel,

1 Kings 14 : 8 (HCSB)

tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to you. But you were not like My servant David, who kept My commandments and followed Me with all of his heart, doing only what is right in My eyes.

1 Kings 14 : 9 (HCSB)

You behaved more wickedly than all who were before you. In order to provoke Me, you have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and cast images, but you have flung Me behind your back.

1 Kings 14 : 10 (HCSB)

Because of all this, I am about to bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam: I will eliminate all of Jeroboam's males, both slave and free, in Israel; I will sweep away the house of Jeroboam as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone!

1 Kings 14 : 11 (HCSB)

Anyone who belongs to Jeroboam and dies in the city, the dogs will eat, and anyone who dies in the field, the birds of the sky will eat, for the LORD has said it!'

1 Kings 14 : 12 (HCSB)

"As for you, get up and go to your house. When your feet enter the city, the boy will die.

1 Kings 14 : 13 (HCSB)

All Israel will mourn for him and bury him, for this one alone out of Jeroboam's *sons will come to the grave, because in him alone out of the house of Jeroboam something was found pleasing to the LORD God of Israel.

1 Kings 14 : 14 (HCSB)

The LORD will raise up for Himself a king over Israel, who will eliminate the house of Jeroboam. This is the day, yes, even today!

1 Kings 14 : 15 (HCSB)

For the LORD will strike Israel *and the people will shake as a reed shakes in water. He will uproot Israel from this good soil that He gave to their forefathers. He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates because they made their Asherah poles, provoking the LORD.

1 Kings 14 : 16 (HCSB)

He will give up Israel, because of Jeroboam's sins that he committed and caused Israel to commit."

1 Kings 14 : 17 (HCSB)

Then Jeroboam's wife got up and left and went to Tirzah. As she was crossing the threshold of the house, the boy died.

1 Kings 14 : 18 (HCSB)

He was buried, and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD He had spoken through His servant Ahijah the prophet.

1 Kings 14 : 19 (HCSB)

As for the rest of the events of Jeroboam's *reign , how he waged war and how he reigned, note that they are written about in the Historical Record of Israel's Kings.

1 Kings 14 : 20 (HCSB)

The length of Jeroboam's reign was 22 years. He rested with his fathers, and his son Nadab became king in his place.

1 Kings 14 : 21 (HCSB)

Now Rehoboam, Solomon's son, reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was 41 years old when he became king; he reigned 17 years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to put His name. Rehoboam's mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite.

1 Kings 14 : 22 (HCSB)

Judah did what was evil in the LORD's eyes. They provoked Him to jealous anger more than all that their ancestors had done with the sins they committed.

1 Kings 14 : 23 (HCSB)

They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree;

1 Kings 14 : 24 (HCSB)

there were even male shrine prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the LORD had dispossessed before the Israelites.

1 Kings 14 : 25 (HCSB)

In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt went to war against Jerusalem.

1 Kings 14 : 26 (HCSB)

He seized the treasuries of the LORD's temple and the treasuries of the royal palace. He took everything. He took all the gold shields that Solomon had made.

1 Kings 14 : 27 (HCSB)

King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place and committed them into the care of the captains of the royal escortswho guarded the entrance to the king's palace.

1 Kings 14 : 28 (HCSB)

Whenever the king entered the LORD's temple, the royal escorts would carry the shields, then they would take them back to the royal escorts' armory.

1 Kings 14 : 29 (HCSB)

The rest of the events of Rehoboam's *reign , along with all his accomplishments, are written about in the Historical Record of Judah's Kings.

1 Kings 14 : 30 (HCSB)

There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam throughout their reigns.

1 Kings 14 : 31 (HCSB)

Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. His mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite. His son Abijam became king in his place.