1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. 2 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. 3 And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child. 4 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.
5 ¶ 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 . 6 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 .
7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel, 8 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; 9 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: 10 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. 11 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 . 12 Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die. 13 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. 14 Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now. 15 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. 16 And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.
17 ¶ And Jeroboam’s wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died; 18 And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet. 19 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. 20 And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
21 ¶ 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. 22 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. 23 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. 24 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.
25 ¶ And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem: 26 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. 27 And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king’s house. 28 And it was so , when the king went into the house of the LORD, that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.
29 ¶ 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? 30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days. 31 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.
1 in tempore illo aegrotavit Abia filius Hieroboam
2 dixitque Hieroboam uxori suae
surge et commuta habitum ne cognoscaris quod sis uxor Hieroboam
et vade in Silo ubi est Ahia propheta qui locutus est mihi
quod regnaturus essem super populum hunc
3 tolle quoque in manu tua decem panes et crustula et vas
mellis
et vade ad illum
ipse indicabit tibi
quid eventurum sit huic puero
4 fecit ut dixerat uxor Hieroboam et consurgens abiit in Silo
et venit in domum Ahia
at ille non poterat videre
quia caligaverant oculi eius prae senectute
5 dixit autem Dominus ad Ahiam
ecce uxor Hieroboam ingreditur
ut consulat te super filio suo qui aegrotat
haec et haec loqueris ei
cum ergo illa intraret et dissimularet se esse quae erat
6 audivit Ahias sonitum pedum eius introeuntis per ostium et
ait
ingredere uxor Hieroboam quare aliam esse te
simulas
ego autem missus sum ad te durus nuntius
7 vade et dic Hieroboam haec dicit Dominus Deus Israhel
quia exaltavi te de medio populi
et dedi te ducem super populum meum Israhel
8 et scidi regnum domus David et dedi illud tibi
et non fuisti sicut servus meus David qui custodivit mandata mea
et secutus est me in toto corde suo
faciens quod placitum esset in conspectu meo
9 sed operatus es male super omnes qui fuerunt ante te
et fecisti tibi deos alienos et conflatiles
ut me ad iracundiam provocares
me autem proiecisti post corpus tuum
10 idcirco ecce ego inducam mala super domum Hieroboam
et percutiam de Hieroboam mingentem ad parietem
et clausum et novissimum in Israhel
et mundabo reliquias domus Hieroboam
sicut mundari solet fimus usque ad purum
11 qui mortui fuerint de Hieroboam in civitate comedent eos canes
qui autem mortui fuerint in agro vorabunt eos aves caeli
quia Dominus locutus est
12 tu igitur surge et vade in domum tuam
et in ipso introitu pedum tuorum in urbem morietur puer
13 et planget eum omnis Israhel et sepeliet
iste enim solus infertur de
Hieroboam in sepulchrum
quia inventus est super eo sermo bonus
ad Dominum Deum Israhel in domo Hieroboam
14 constituet autem sibi Dominus regem super Israhel
qui percutiat domum Hieroboam in hac die et in hoc tempore
15 et percutiet Dominus Israhel
sicut moveri solet harundo in aqua
et evellet Israhel de terra bona hac quam dedit patribus eorum
et ventilabit eos trans Flumen
quia fecerunt sibi lucos ut inritarent Dominum
16 et tradet Dominus Israhel propter peccata Hieroboam
qui peccavit et peccare fecit Israhel
17 surrexit itaque uxor Hieroboam et abiit et venit in Thersa
cumque illa ingrederetur limen domus puer mortuus est
18 et sepelierunt eum
et planxit illum omnis Israhel iuxta sermonem Domini
quem locutus est in manu servi sui Ahiae prophetae
19 reliqua autem verborum Hieroboam
quomodo pugnaverit et quomodo regnaverit
ecce scripta sunt in libro verborum dierum regum Israhel
20 dies autem quibus regnavit Hieroboam viginti duo anni sunt
et dormivit cum patribus suis
regnavitque Nadab filius eius pro eo
21 porro Roboam filius Salomonis regnavit in Iuda
quadraginta et unius anni erat Roboam cum regnare coepisset
et decem et septem annis regnavit in Hierusalem
civitatem quam elegit Dominus
ut poneret nomen suum ibi ex omnibus tribubus Israhel
nomen autem matris eius Naama Ammanites
22 et fecit Iudas malum coram Domino
et inritaverunt eum super omnibus quae fecerant patres eorum
in peccatis suis quae peccaverant
23 aedificaverunt enim et ipsi sibi aras et statuas et lucos
super omnem collem excelsum et subter omnem arborem frondosam
24 sed et effeminati fuerunt in terra
feceruntque omnes abominationes gentium
quas adtrivit Dominus ante faciem filiorum Israhel
25 in quinto autem anno regni Roboam
ascendit Sesac rex Aegypti in Hierusalem
26 et tulit thesauros domus Domini
et thesauros regios et universa diripuit
scuta quoque aurea quae fecerat Salomon
27 pro quibus fecit rex Roboam scuta aerea
et tradidit ea in manu ducum scutariorum
et eorum qui excubabant ante ostium domus regis
28 cumque ingrederetur rex in domum Domini
portabant ea qui praeeundi habebant officium
et postea reportabant ad armamentarium scutariorum
29 reliqua autem sermonum Roboam et omnium quae fecit
ecce scripta sunt in libro verborum dierum regum Iuda
30 fuitque bellum inter Roboam et Hieroboam cunctis diebus
31 dormivit itaque Roboam cum patribus suis
et sepultus est cum eis in civitate David
nomen autem matris eius Naama Ammanites
et regnavit Abiam filius eius pro eo