1 Kings 14
World English Bible (WEB) • 31 verses
1At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick.
RelatedExodus 20:5 · 1 Samuel 4:19-20 · 1 Kings 14:12-13 · 1 Samuel 31:2 · 2 Samuel 12:15 · 1 Kings 13:33-34
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.
Related1 Samuel 28:8 · 2 Samuel 14:2 · 1 Kings 11:29-38 · 2 Chronicles 18:29 · Luke 12:2 · 1 Kings 22:30
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.”
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.
5The LORD 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.”
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.
RelatedDaniel 4:19-25 · Luke 20:20-23 · 1 Kings 14:2 · 1 Kings 21:18-24 · 1 Kings 13:20-22 · 1 Kings 14:10-11
7Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘The LORD, the God of Israel, says: “Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you prince over my people Israel,
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,
Related1 Kings 15:5 · 1 Kings 11:33-38 · Acts 13:36 · 2 Chronicles 28:1 · Acts 13:22 · 1 Kings 11:30-31
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,
RelatedPsalms 50:17 · Ezekiel 23:35 · Nehemiah 9:26 · 1 Kings 12:28 · 2 Chronicles 11:15 · Exodus 34:17
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.
RelatedDeuteronomy 32:36 · 1 Kings 21:21 · 2 Kings 14:26 · 2 Kings 9:8-9 · 2 Kings 9:37 · 1 Kings 15:25-30
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 the LORD has spoken it.”’
Related1 Kings 16:4 · 1 Kings 21:23-24 · Revelation 19:17-18 · Jeremiah 15:3 · 1 Kings 21:19 · Ezekiel 39:17-19
12Arise therefore, and go to your house. When your feet enter into the city, the child will die.
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 the LORD, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.
Related2 Chronicles 19:3 · 2 Chronicles 12:12 · Ezekiel 18:14-32 · Philemon 1:6 · 2 Peter 2:8-9 · Jeremiah 22:18
14Moreover the LORD will raise up a king for himself over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is the day! What? Even now.
Related1 Kings 15:27-29 · Ezekiel 12:22-28 · 2 Peter 2:3 · Ecclesiastes 8:11 · Ezekiel 7:2-7 · James 5:9
15For the LORD 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 the LORD to anger.
RelatedJoshua 23:15-16 · Psalms 52:5 · 2 Kings 15:29 · Proverbs 2:22 · Exodus 34:13-14 · Deuteronomy 12:3-4
16He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin.”
17Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed, and came to Tirzah. As she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.
Related1 Kings 15:33 · 1 Kings 16:23 · 1 Kings 16:15 · 1 Kings 15:21 · Song of Solomon 6:4 · 1 Samuel 4:18-20
18All Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to the LORD’s word, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.
Related1 Kings 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.
Related2 Chronicles 13:2-20 · 1 Kings 14:29-30 · 1 Kings 16:27 · 1 Kings 15:31 · 1 Kings 16:20 · 1 Chronicles 27:24
20The days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty two years; then he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.
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 the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
Related2 Chronicles 12:13 · 1 Kings 11:36 · 1 Kings 14:31 · 1 Kings 11:32 · Isaiah 12:6 · 1 Kings 8:16
22Judah did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.
Related1 Corinthians 10:22 · 2 Chronicles 12:1 · Psalms 78:58 · Judges 3:12 · Deuteronomy 4:24 · Judges 4:1
23For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
RelatedDeuteronomy 12:2 · Isaiah 57:5 · 2 Kings 17:9-10 · Ezekiel 16:24-25 · Jeremiah 2:20 · Jeremiah 3:13
24There were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD drove out before the children of Israel.
RelatedDeuteronomy 23:17 · 2 Kings 23:7 · 1 Kings 15:12 · 1 Corinthians 6:9 · 1 Kings 22:46 · Genesis 19:5
25In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;
26and he took away the treasures of the LORD’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.
Related1 Kings 15:18 · 2 Chronicles 9:15-16 · Ecclesiastes 2:18-19 · Psalms 89:35-45 · 1 Kings 10:16-17 · 1 Kings 7:51
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.
Related1 Samuel 22:17 · 1 Samuel 8:11 · 1 Kings 18:46 · Lamentations 4:1-2 · 1 Kings 14:5 · 2 Samuel 15:1
28It was so, that as often as the king went into the LORD’s house, the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard room.
Related2 Chronicles 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?
30There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
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.
Related2 Chronicles 12:16 · Matthew 1:7 · 1 Kings 11:43 · 1 Kings 15:3 · 1 Kings 22:50 · 1 Kings 15:24
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