5. but the Lord told him, “Jeroboam's wife is coming to ask about her son. I will tell you what to say to her.”Jeroboam's wife came to Ahijah's house, pretending to be someone else.
6. But when Ahijah heard her walking up to the door, he said:Come in! I know you're Jeroboam's wife—why are you pretending to be someone else? I have some bad news for you.
7. Give your husband this message from the Lord God of Israel: “Jeroboam, you know that I, the Lord, chose you over anyone else to be the leader of my people Israel.
8. I even took David's kingdom away from his family and gave it to you. But you are not like my servant David. He always obeyed me and did what was right.
9. “You have made me very angry by rejecting me and making idols out of gold. Jeroboam, you have done more evil things than any king before you.
10. “Because of this, I will destroy your family by killing every man and boy in it, whether slave or free. I will wipe out your family, just as fire burns up rubbish.
11. Dogs will eat the bodies of your relatives who die in town, and vultures will eat the bodies of those who die in the country. I, the Lord, have spoken and will not change my mind!”
12. That's the Lord's message to your husband. As for you, go back home, and straight after you get there, your son will die.
13. Everyone in Israel will mourn at his funeral. But he will be the last one from Jeroboam's family to receive a proper burial, because he's the only one the Lord God of Israel is pleased with.
14. The Lord will soon choose a new king of Israel, who will destroy Jeroboam's family. And I mean very soon.
15. The people of Israel have made the Lord angry by setting up sacred poles for worshipping the goddess Asherah. So the Lord will punish them until they shake like grass in a stream. He will take them out of the land he gave to their ancestors, then scatter them as far away as the River Euphrates.