9. But have done evil above all who were before you; for you have made yourself other gods, molten images, to provoke Me to anger and have cast Me behind your back–
10. Therefore behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam and will cut off from [him] every male, both bond and free, in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam as a man sweeps away dung, till it is all gone.
11. Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and any who dies in the field the birds of the heavens shall eat. For the Lord has spoken it.
12. Arise therefore [Ano, Jeroboam's wife], get to your own house. When your feet enter the city, the child shall die.
13. And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam's family shall come to the grave, because in him there is found something good and pleasing to the Lord, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.
14. Moreover, the Lord will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam this day. From now on
15. The Lord will smite 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 [Euphrates] River, because they have made their Asherim [idolatrous symbols of the goddess Asherah], provoking the Lord to anger.
16. He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam which he has sinned and made Israel to sin.
17. So Jeroboam's wife departed and came to Tirzah. When she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.
18. And all Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to the word of the Lord spoken by His servant Ahijah the prophet.
19. 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. Jeroboam reigned for twenty-two years, and he slept with his fathers; and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.