12. “Get up, and go home. The moment you set foot in the city the child will die.
13. All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He is the only one of Jer o boam’s family who will be ⌊properly⌋ buried. He was the only one in Jer o boam’s house in whom the Lord God of Israel found anything good.
14. The Lord will appoint a king over Israel. That king will destroy Jer o boam’s house. This will happen today. It will happen right now.
15. “The Lord will strike Israel like cattails which shake in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land which he gave their ancestors. He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River because they dedicated poles to the goddess Asherah and made the Lord furious.
16. So the Lord will desert Israel because of Jer o boam’s sins, the sins which he led Israel to commit.”
17. Jer o boam’s wife got up, left, and went to Tirzah. When she walked across the threshold of her home, the boy died.
18. All Israel buried him and mourned for him as the Lord had said through his servant, the prophet Ahijah.