1At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. 2And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, please, and disguise yourself, that you may not be known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and go to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, who spoke concerning me that I should be king over this people. 3And take with you ten loaves, and cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him: he will tell you what shall become of the child. 4And Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were dim because of his age. 5And Yehovah said to Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to inquire of you concerning her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shall you say to her; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will pretend to be another woman. 6And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, you wife of Jeroboam; why do you pretend to be another? for I am sent to you with heavy news. 7Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus says Yehovah, the God of Israel: Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you prince over my people Israel, 8and tore the kingdom away from the house of David, 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 only what was right in my eyes, 9but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods, and cast images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back: 10therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both the one shut up and the one left free in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung, until it is all gone. 11Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city the dogs shall eat; and anyone who dies in the field the birds of the heavens shall eat: for Yehovah has spoken it. 12Arise therefore, go to your house: and when your feet enter into the city, the child shall die. 13And 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 Yehovah, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam. 14Moreover Yehovah will raise up for himself a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now. 15For Yehovah 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 Asherim, provoking Yehovah to anger. 16And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel sin. 17And Jeroboam’s wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and as she came to the threshold of the house, the child died. 18And all Israel buried him, and mourned for him, according to the word of Yehovah, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet. 19And 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. 20And the days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty-two years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place. 21And Rehoboam 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 Yehovah had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. 22And Judah did what was evil in the sight of Yehovah, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done. 23For they also built for themselves high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree; 24and there were also male cult prostitutes in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yehovah drove out before the children of Israel. 25And it happened in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem; 26and he took away the treasures of the house of Yehovah, 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. 27And king Rehoboam made in their place shields of bronze, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house. 28And it was so, that, as often as the king went into the house of Yehovah, the guard carried them, and brought them back into the guardroom. 29Now 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? 30And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. 31And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. And Abijam his son reigned in his place.