11. Descendants of Jeroboam who die in the city will be eaten by dogs, and those who die in the field will be eaten by the birds of the air, for the Lord has spoken it.’
12. “Arise therefore and go to your own house. When your feet enter the city, the child will die.
13. All Israel will mourn for him and bury him, for he alone from the house of Jeroboam will come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the Lord God of Israel.
14. “Moreover the Lord will raise up a king over Israel who will destroy the house of Jeroboam this day and from now on.
15. For the Lord will smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and He will uproot Israel from this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the Lord to anger.
16. He shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam who sinned and who led Israel to sin.”
17. Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed and came to Tirzah. As she arrived at the threshold of the door, the child died,
18. and they buried him, and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the Lord, which He spoke by the hand of His servant Ahijah the prophet.