¶ At that time¹ Abijah the son² of Jeroboam fell sick.

And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself,³ that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah⁴ the prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people.

And take⁵ with thee⁶ ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse⁷ of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.

And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh⁸, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes⁹ were set by reason of his age¹⁰.

And the LORD¹¹ 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 wife¹² of Jeroboam; why feignest¹³ thou thyself to be another? for I am¹⁴ sent to thee with heavy tidings¹⁵.

¶ Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch¹⁶ as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel,

And rent¹⁷ the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant David¹⁸, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes;

But hast done¹⁹ evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone²⁰ and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke²¹ me to anger, and hast cast me²² behind thy back:

¶ Therefore, behold, I will bring²³ evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth²⁴ against the wall, and him that is shut up²⁵ and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh²⁶ away dung, till it be all gone.

Him that dieth²⁷ 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.

Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet²⁸ enter into the city, the child shall die.

And all Israel shall mourn²⁹ for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found³⁰ some good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.

Moreover the LORD³¹ shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what?³² even now.

For the LORD³³ shall smite Israel, as a reed³⁴ is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel³⁵ out of this good land³⁶, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter³⁷ them beyond the river³⁸, because they have made their groves, provoking³⁹ the LORD to anger.

And he shall give Israel⁴⁰ up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin⁴¹, and who made Israel to sin.

And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah⁴²: and when she came⁴³ to the threshold of the door, the child died;

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.

And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred⁴⁴, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book⁴⁵ of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

¶ And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept⁴⁶ with his fathers, and Nadab⁴⁷ his son reigned in his stead.

¶ And Rehoboam⁴⁸ 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 city⁴⁹ which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name⁵⁰ there. And his mother's name was Naamah⁵¹ an Ammonitess.

And Judah⁵² did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked⁵³ him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all⁵⁴ that their fathers had done.

For they also built⁵⁵ them high places, and images⁵⁶, and groves⁵⁷, on every high hill, and under every⁵⁸ green tree.

And there⁵⁹ 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 it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak⁶⁰ king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:

And he took away⁶¹ 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 gold⁶² which Solomon had made.

And king Rehoboam made⁶³ in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard⁶⁴, which kept the door of the king's house.

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 chamber⁶⁵.

Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written⁶⁶ in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

¶⁶⁷And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.

And Rehoboam⁶⁸ slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother's⁶⁹ name was Naamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam⁷⁰ his son reigned in his stead.