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.
23. They built places of worship for false gods, and put up stone pillars and symbols of Asherah to worship on the hills and under shady trees.
24. Worst of all, there were men and women who served as prostitutes at those pagan places of worship. The people of Judah practised all the shameful things done by the people whom the Lord had driven out of the land as the Israelites advanced into the country.
25. In the fifth year of Rehoboam's reign King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.
26. He took away all the treasures in the Temple and in the palace, including the gold shields Solomon had made.
27. To replace them, King Rehoboam made bronze shields and entrusted them to the officers responsible for guarding the palace gates.
28. Every time the king went to the Temple, the guards carried the shields, and then returned them to the guardroom.
29. Everything else that King Rehoboam did is recorded in The History of the Kings of Judah.
30. During all this time Rehoboam and Jeroboam were constantly at war with each other.
31. Rehoboam died and was buried in the royal tombs in David's City, and his son Abijah succeeded him as king.