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1 Kings 14 1 At that time Jeroboam's son Abijah became very sick.
1 Kings 14 2 So Jeroboam told his wife, "Disguise yourself so that no one will recognize you as the queen. Then go to the prophet Ahijah at Shiloh--the man who told me I would become king.
1 Kings 14 3 Take him a gift of ten loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and ask him what will happen to the boy."
1 Kings 14 4 So Jeroboam's wife went to Ahijah's home at Shiloh. He was an old man now and could no longer see.
1 Kings 14 5 But the LORD had told Ahijah, "Jeroboam's wife will come here, pretending to be someone else. She will ask you about her son, for he is very sick. You must give her the answer that I give you."
1 Kings 14 6 So when Ahijah heard her footsteps at the door, he called out, "Come in, wife of Jeroboam! Why are you pretending to be someone else?" Then he told her, "I have bad news for you.
1 Kings 14 7 Give your husband, Jeroboam, this message from the LORD, the God of Israel: `I promoted you from the ranks of the common people and made you ruler over my people Israel.
1 Kings 14 8 I ripped the kingdom away from the family of David and gave it to you. But you have not been like my servant David, who obeyed my commands and followed me with all his heart and always did whatever I wanted him to do.
1 Kings 14 9 You have done more evil than all who lived before you. You have made other gods and have made me furious with your gold calves. And since you have turned your back on me,
1 Kings 14 10 I will bring disaster on your dynasty and kill all your sons, slave or free alike. I will burn up your royal dynasty as one burns up trash until it is all gone.
1 Kings 14 11 I, the LORD, vow that the members of your family who die in the city will be eaten by dogs, and those who die in the field will be eaten by vultures.'"
1 Kings 14 12 Then Ahijah said to Jeroboam's wife, "Go on home, and when you enter the city, the child will die.
1 Kings 14 13 All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He is the only member of your family who will have a proper burial, for this child is the only good thing that the LORD, the God of Israel, sees in the entire family of Jeroboam.
1 Kings 14 14 And the LORD will raise up a king over Israel who will destroy the family of Jeroboam. This will happen today, even now!
1 Kings 14 15 Then the LORD will shake Israel like a reed whipped about in a stream. He will uproot the people of Israel from this good land that he gave their ancestors and will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, for they have angered the LORD by worshiping Asherah poles.
1 Kings 14 16 He will abandon Israel because Jeroboam sinned and made all of Israel sin along with him."
1 Kings 14 17 So Jeroboam's wife returned to Tirzah, and the child died just as she walked through the door of her home.
1 Kings 14 18 When the people of Israel buried him, they mourned for him, as the LORD had promised through the prophet Ahijah.
1 Kings 14 19 The rest of the events of Jeroboam's reign, all his wars and how he ruled, are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Israel.
1 Kings 14 20 Jeroboam reigned in Israel twenty-two years. When Jeroboam died, his son Nadab became the next king.
1 Kings 14 21 Meanwhile, Rehoboam son of Solomon was king in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from among all the tribes of Israel as the place to honor his name. Rehoboam's mother was Naamah, an Ammonite woman.
1 Kings 14 22 During Rehoboam's reign, the people of Judah did what was evil in the LORD's sight, arousing his anger with their sin, for it was even worse than that of their ancestors.
1 Kings 14 23 They built pagan shrines and set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
1 Kings 14 24 There were even shrine prostitutes throughout the land. The people imitated the detestable practices of the pagan nations the LORD had driven from the land ahead of the Israelites.
1 Kings 14 25 In the fifth year of King Rehoboam's reign, King Shishak of Egypt came up and attacked Jerusalem.
1 Kings 14 26 He ransacked the Temple of the LORD and the royal palace and stole everything, including all the gold shields Solomon had made.
1 Kings 14 27 Afterward Rehoboam made bronze shields as substitutes, and he entrusted them to the care of the palace guard officers.
1 Kings 14 28 Whenever the king went to the Temple of the LORD, the guards would carry them along and then return them to the guardroom.
1 Kings 14 29 The rest of the events in Rehoboam's reign and all his deeds are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Judah.
1 Kings 14 30 There was constant war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.
1 Kings 14 31 When Rehoboam died, he was buried among his ancestors in the City of David. His mother was Naamah, an Ammonite woman. Then his son Abijam became the next king.
1 Kings 15 1 Abijam began to rule over Judah in the eighteenth year of Jeroboam's reign in Israel.
1 Kings 15 2 He reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother was Maacah, the daughter of Absalom.
1 Kings 15 3 He committed the same sins as his father before him, and his heart was not right with the LORD his God, as the heart of his ancestor David had been.
1 Kings 15 4 But for David's sake, the LORD his God allowed his dynasty to continue, and he gave Abijam a son to rule after him in Jerusalem.
1 Kings 15 5 For David had done what was pleasing in the LORD's sight and had obeyed the LORD's commands throughout his life, except in the affair concerning Uriah the Hittite.
1 Kings 15 6 There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam throughout Abijam's reign.
1 Kings 15 7 The rest of the events in Abijam's reign and all his deeds are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Judah. There was constant war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
1 Kings 15 8 When Abijam died, he was buried in the City of David. Then his son Asa became the next king.
1 Kings 15 9 Asa began to rule over Judah in the twentieth year of Jeroboam's reign in Israel.
1 Kings 15 10 He reigned in Jerusalem forty-one years. His grandmother was Maacah, the daughter of Absalom.
1 Kings 15 11 Asa did what was pleasing in the LORD's sight, as his ancestor David had done.
1 Kings 15 12 He banished the shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols his ancestors had made.
1 Kings 15 13 He even deposed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made an obscene Asherah pole. He cut down the pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
1 Kings 15 14 Although the pagan shrines were not completely removed, Asa remained faithful to the LORD throughout his life.
1 Kings 15 15 He brought into the Temple of the LORD the silver and gold and the utensils that he and his father had dedicated.
1 Kings 15 16 There was constant war between King Asa of Judah and King Baasha of Israel.
1 Kings 15 17 King Baasha of Israel invaded Judah and fortified Ramah in order to prevent anyone from entering or leaving King Asa's territory in Judah.
1 Kings 15 18 Asa responded by taking all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the LORD's Temple and the royal palace. He sent it with some of his officials to Ben-hadad son of Tabrimmon and grandson of Hezion, the king of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus, along with this message:
1 Kings 15 19 "Let us renew the treaty that existed between your father and my father. See, I am sending you a gift of silver and gold. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel so that he will leave me alone."
1 Kings 15 20 Ben-hadad agreed to King Asa's request and sent his armies to attack Israel. They conquered the towns of Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and all Kinnereth, with all the land of Naphtali.
1 Kings 15 21 As soon as Baasha of Israel heard what was happening, he abandoned his project of fortifying Ramah and withdrew to Tirzah.
1 Kings 15 22 Then King Asa sent an order throughout Judah, requiring that everyone, without exception, help to carry away the building stones and timbers that Baasha had been using to fortify Ramah. Asa used these materials to fortify the town of Geba in Benjamin and the town of Mizpah.
1 Kings 15 23 The rest of the events in Asa's reign, the extent of his power, and the names of the cities he built are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Judah. In his old age his feet became diseased.
1 Kings 15 24 When Asa died, he was buried with his ancestors in the City of David. Then his son Jehoshaphat became the next king.
1 Kings 15 25 Nadab son of Jeroboam began to rule over Israel in the second year of King Asa's reign in Judah. He reigned in Israel two years.
1 Kings 15 26 But he did what was evil in the LORD's sight and followed the example of his father, continuing the sins of idolatry that Jeroboam had led Israel to commit.
1 Kings 15 27 Then Baasha son of Ahijah, from the tribe of Issachar, plotted against Nadab and assassinated him while he and the Israelite army were laying siege to the Philistine town of Gibbethon.
1 Kings 15 28 Baasha killed Nadab in the third year of King Asa's reign in Judah, and he became the next king of Israel.
1 Kings 15 29 He immediately killed all the descendants of King Jeroboam, so that not one of the royal family was left, just as the LORD had promised concerning Jeroboam by the prophet Ahijah from Shiloh.
1 Kings 15 30 This was done because Jeroboam had aroused the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel, by the sins he had committed and the sins he had led Israel to commit.
1 Kings 15 31 The rest of the events in Nadab's reign and all his deeds are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Israel. Baasha Rules in Israel
1 Kings 15 32 There was constant war between Asa and King Baasha of Israel.
1 Kings 15 33 Baasha began to rule over Israel in the third year of King Asa's reign in Judah. Baasha reigned in Tirzah twenty-four years.
1 Kings 15 34 But he did what was evil in the LORD's sight and followed the example of Jeroboam, continuing the sins of idolatry that Jeroboam had led Israel to commit.
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