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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 14
Ahijah foretells of ruin of Jeroboam's house, the death of his child, and
the scattering of Israel because of their idolatry—Jeroboam dies and
Nadab reigns—Judah, under Rehoboam, turns to wickedness—Shishak
of Egypt takes treasures from temple—Rehoboam dies and Abijam reigns.
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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 aAhijah the
prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people.
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3 And take with thee ten loaves, and
acracknels, 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.
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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.
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7 Go, tell aJeroboam, 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
aDavid, 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 aevil 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:
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10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the
house of aJeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that
pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel,
and will btake away the remnant of the house of
cJeroboam, 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.
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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.
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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 aIsrael out of
this bgood land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall
scatter them beyond cthe river, because they have made
their dgroves, eprovoking the LORD to
anger.
16 And he shall give Israel up because of the sins
of aJeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.
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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.
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19 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he
warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the
abook of the bchronicles 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.
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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 aevil in the
sight of the LORD, and they bprovoked him to jealousy with
their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
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23 For they also built them ahigh
places, and bimages, and groves, on every high hill, and
under every green tree.
24 And there were also asodomites
in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the
nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
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25 ¶ And it came to pass in the fifth year of
king Rehoboam, that aShishak 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
housea; he even took away all: and
he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
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26a he took away the treasures of the
house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house Now one
of the first wives of Solomon had been Pharaoh's daughter and also Solomon
did show to the world his riches and treasures. So when Solomon had died
and Rehoboam and Judah did sin before God and was no longer supported by
God, Shishak king or Pharaoh of Egypt did come against Jerusalem and take
all the treasures of the temple and the house of David and/or Solomon from
them. And thus we are left to suppose that the wealth of the Kingdom of
Solomon was lost unto Egypt and with that great treasure of the world did
Egypt build their kingdoms.
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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.
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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 aAbijam his son
reigned in his stead.
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