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1 Kings 14:13-31 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

13. All of Israel will mourn for him, and they will bury him. This one alone will come to a tomb for Jeroboam, because a good thing has been found in him by Yahweh the God of Israel in the house of Israel.

14. Yahweh will raise up a king for himself over Israel who will even now cut off the house of Jeroboam this day.

15. Yahweh will strike Israel as one shakes the reed plant in the water, and he will root Israel up from this good land that he gave to their ancestors. He will scatter them beyond the River because they have made their sacred poles which are provoking Yahweh.

16. He will give up Israel because of the sin of Jeroboam which he sinned and which he caused Israel to sin.”

17. Then the wife of Jeroboam got up, went, and came to Tirzah. As she was coming to the threshold of the house, the boy died.

18. They buried him and all of Israel mourned for him, according to the word of Yahweh which he had spoken by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.

19. The remainder of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel.

20. The days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty-two years, and he slept with his ancestors. Then Nadab his son became king in place of him.

21. Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which, from all of the tribes of Israel, Yahweh chose to place his name. And the name of his mother was Naamah the Ammonitess.

22. But Judah did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and they annoyed him more than their fathers did with their sins that they had committed.

23. They also built for themselves high places and stone pillars and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

24. There were also male shrine prostitutes in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh had driven out from before the Israelites.

25. It happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem,

26. and he took the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and he took all the treasures of the king’s house. He took the small gold shields that Solomon had made,

27. so King Rehoboam made small copper shields in place of them and entrusted them to the commanders of the royal guard who keep the doorway of the king’s house.

28. Whenever the king came to the house of Yahweh, the royal guard carried them and brought them back to the alcove room of the royal guard.

29. The remainder of the acts of Rehoboam and all that he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?

30. There was always war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.

31. Then Rehoboam slept with his ancestors, and he was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. The name of his mother was Naamah the Ammonitess. Abijam his son became king in his place.

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