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.
19. The rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he waged war and how he reigned, are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
20. Jeroboam reigned twenty-two years, and then he slept with his fathers, and Nadab, his son, reigned in his stead.
21. Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put His name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah, an Ammonitess.
22. Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and the people provoked Him to jealousy with the sins they committed, even worse than their fathers had done.
23. For they also built high places and images and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
24. There were also male cult prostitutes in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the nations that the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.
25. In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.