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

1 Kings 14 : 1 (WEB)

At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.

1 Kings 14 : 2 (WEB)

Jeroboam said to his wife, Please get up and disguise yourself, that you not be known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get you to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, who spoke concerning me that I should be king over this people.

1 Kings 14 : 3 (WEB)

Take with you ten loaves, and cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him: he will tell you what shall become of the child.

1 Kings 14 : 4 (WEB)

Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.

1 Kings 14 : 5 (WEB)

Yahweh said to Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam comes to inquire of you concerning her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shall you tell her; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will feign herself to be another woman.

1 Kings 14 : 6 (WEB)

It was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, you wife of Jeroboam; why feign you yourself to be another? for I am sent to you with heavy news.

1 Kings 14 : 7 (WEB)

Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you prince over my people Israel,

1 Kings 14 : 8 (WEB)

and tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it 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,

1 Kings 14 : 9 (WEB)

but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made you other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back:

1 Kings 14 : 10 (WEB)

therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every man-child, him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung, until it be all gone.

1 Kings 14 : 11 (WEB)

Him who dies of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him who dies in the field shall the birds of the sky eat: for Yahweh has spoken it.

1 Kings 14 : 12 (WEB)

Arise you therefore, get you to your house: and when your feet enter into the city, the child shall die.

1 Kings 14 : 13 (WEB)

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 Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

1 Kings 14 : 14 (WEB)

Moreover Yahweh will raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.

1 Kings 14 : 15 (WEB)

For 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 Asherim, provoking Yahweh to anger.

1 Kings 14 : 16 (WEB)

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

1 Kings 14 : 17 (WEB)

Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and as she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.

1 Kings 14 : 18 (WEB)

All Israel buried him, and mourned for him, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.

1 Kings 14 : 19 (WEB)

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.

1 Kings 14 : 20 (WEB)

The days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.

1 Kings 14 : 21 (WEB)

Rehoboam 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: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

1 Kings 14 : 22 (WEB)

Judah did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.

1 Kings 14 : 23 (WEB)

For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;

1 Kings 14 : 24 (WEB)

and there 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.

1 Kings 14 : 25 (WEB)

It happened in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;

1 Kings 14 : 26 (WEB)

and he took away the treasures of the house of Yahweh, 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.

1 Kings 14 : 27 (WEB)

King Rehoboam made in their place shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house.

1 Kings 14 : 28 (WEB)

It was so, that as often as the king went into the house of Yahweh, the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard-chamber.

1 Kings 14 : 29 (WEB)

Now 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?

1 Kings 14 : 30 (WEB)

There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

1 Kings 14 : 31 (WEB)

Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. Abijam his son reigned in his place.