English Bible Presentation Sharing - 1-Kings Book, chapter 14, verse 6 in Nlv Version

1 Kings 14 : 1 (NLV)

At that time Jeroboam's son Abijah became sick.

1 Kings 14 : 2 (NLV)

And Jeroboam said to his wife, "Get ready and dress yourself so no one will know that you are the wife of Jeroboam. Then go to Shiloh. Ahijah the man who speaks for God is there. He is the one who said that I would be king over these people.

1 Kings 14 : 3 (NLV)

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

1 Kings 14 : 4 (NLV)

Jeroboam's wife did so. She got ready and went to Shiloh, and came to Ahijah's house. Now Ahijah could not see. His eyes were weak because he was old.

1 Kings 14 : 5 (NLV)

The Lord had said to Ahijah, "The wife of Jeroboam is coming to ask you about her son, for he is sick. This is what you should say to her. When she comes she will pretend to be another woman."

1 Kings 14 : 6 (NLV)

When Ahijah heard the sound of her feet coming to the door, he said, "Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why do you pretend to be another woman? For I have been given news that will be hard for you.

1 Kings 14 : 7 (NLV)

Go and say to Jeroboam, 'This is what the Lord God of Israel says. "I gave you honor from among the people. I made you the leader of My people Israel.

1 Kings 14 : 8 (NLV)

I tore the nation away from the family of David and gave it to you. But you have not been like My servant David. He kept My Laws and followed Me with all his heart. He did only what was right in My eyes.

1 Kings 14 : 9 (NLV)

But you have done more sinful things than all who were before you. You have gone and made for yourself other gods and objects to look like gods to make Me angry. You have put Me behind your back.

1 Kings 14 : 10 (NLV)

So I am bringing trouble upon the family of Jeroboam. I will kill every male from Jeroboam, both owned and free in Israel. I will clean away the family of Jeroboam, as one cleans away animal waste until it is all gone.

1 Kings 14 : 11 (NLV)

The dogs will eat anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city. And the birds of the air will eat anyone who dies in the field. For the Lord has said it." '

1 Kings 14 : 12 (NLV)

"Get up and go to your house. When your feet go into the city the child will die.

1 Kings 14 : 13 (NLV)

All Israel will have sorrow for him and bury him. For he alone of Jeroboam's family will come to the grave. Because in him there is found something good to the Lord God of Israel, in the family of Jeroboam.

1 Kings 14 : 14 (NLV)

But the Lord will send a king over Israel who will destroy the family of Jeroboam this day and from now on.

1 Kings 14 : 15 (NLV)

For the Lord will punish Israel, as a piece of grass is shaken in the water. He will send Israel out from this good land He gave to their fathers. He will spread them out on the other side of the Euphrates River, because they have their false gods, and have made the Lord angry.

1 Kings 14 : 16 (NLV)

He will give up Israel because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he sinned and made Israel to sin."

1 Kings 14 : 17 (NLV)

Then Jeroboam's wife got up and left and came to Tirzah. As she came to the door of the house, the child died.

1 Kings 14 : 18 (NLV)

And all Israel buried him and had sorrow for him, as the Word of God was spoken through His servant Ahijah the man who spoke for God.

1 Kings 14 : 19 (NLV)

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he made war and how he ruled, are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

1 Kings 14 : 20 (NLV)

Jeroboam ruled for twenty-two years. Then he died and his son Nadab ruled in his place.

1 Kings 14 : 21 (NLV)

Now Solomon's son Rehoboam ruled in Judah. Rehoboam was fortyone years old when he became king. And he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord had chosen from all the families of Israel to put His name there. The name of Rehoboam's mother was Naamah of Ammon.

1 Kings 14 : 22 (NLV)

Judah did what was sinful in the eyes of the Lord. They made Him jealous with their sins, more than all their fathers had done.

1 Kings 14 : 23 (NLV)

For they built for themselves high places, holy objects and false gods on every high hill and under every green tree.

1 Kings 14 : 24 (NLV)

In their religion there were men in the land who sold the use of their bodies. They did all the hated things of the nations which the Lord drove away before the people of Israel.

1 Kings 14 : 25 (NLV)

In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.

1 Kings 14 : 26 (NLV)

He took away the riches of the Lord's house and the riches of the king's house. He took everything. He even took all the body coverings of gold which Solomon had made.

1 Kings 14 : 27 (NLV)

So King Rehoboam made body coverings of brass in their place. He put them in the care of the captain of the soldiers who watched the door of the king's house.

1 Kings 14 : 28 (NLV)

Every time the king went into the house of the Lord, the soldiers would carry them and return them again to their room.

1 Kings 14 : 29 (NLV)

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?

1 Kings 14 : 30 (NLV)

There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam always.

1 Kings 14 : 31 (NLV)

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