And
Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself,
that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to
Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should
be king over this people.
And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house
of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.
And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to
ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt
thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall
feign herself to be another woman.
And it
was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the
door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou
thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.
And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and
yet thou hast 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 mine eyes;
But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou
hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to
anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:
Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will
cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up
and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as
a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.
Him
that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that
dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath
spoken it.
And 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 the LORD
God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed
is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good
land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the
river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
And 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.
And
Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one
years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in
Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of
Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an
Ammonitess.
And Judah did evil in the sight of the
LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had
committed, above all that their fathers had done.
And there were also sodomites in the land:
and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the
LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
And he took away the treasures of the
house of the LORD, 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.
And king Rehoboam made in their stead brazen shields, and committed them
unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king's
house.
And
Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the
city of David. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess. And
Abijam his son reigned in his stead.
Matt 1:7