8. I took the kingdom away from David's descendants and gave it to you. But you have not been like my servant David, who was completely loyal to me, obeyed my commands, and did only what I approve of.
9. You have committed far greater sins than those who ruled before you. You have rejected me and have aroused my anger by making idols and metal images to worship.
10. Because of this I will bring disaster on your dynasty and will kill all your male descendants, young and old alike. I will get rid of your family; they will be swept away like dung.
11. Any members of your family who die in the city will be eaten by dogs, and any who die in the open country will be eaten by vultures. I, the Lord, have spoken.’ ”
12. And Ahijah went on to say to Jeroboam's wife, “Now go back home. As soon as you enter the town your son will die.
13. All the people of Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He will be the only member of Jeroboam's family who will be properly buried, because he is the only one with whom the Lord, the God of Israel, is pleased.
14. The Lord is going to place a king over Israel who will put an end to Jeroboam's dynasty.
15. The Lord will punish Israel, and she will shake like a reed shaking in a stream. He will uproot the people of Israel from this good land which he gave to their ancestors, and he will scatter them beyond the River Euphrates, because they have aroused his anger by making idols of the goddess Asherah.
16. The Lord will abandon Israel because Jeroboam sinned and led the people of Israel into sin.”
17. Jeroboam's wife went back to Tirzah. Just as she entered her home, the child died.
18. The people of Israel mourned for him and buried him, as the Lord had said through his servant, the prophet Ahijah.
19. Everything else that King Jeroboam did, the wars he fought and how he ruled, are all recorded in The History of the Kings of Israel.
20. Jeroboam ruled as king for 22 years. He died and was buried, and his son Nadab succeeded him as king.
21. Solomon's son Rehoboam was 41 years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen from all the territory of Israel as the place where he was to be worshipped. Rehoboam's mother was Naamah from Ammon.
22. The people of Judah sinned against the Lord and did more to arouse his anger against them than all their ancestors had done.