11. Anyone from your family who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and those who die in the fields will be eaten by the birds. The Lord has spoken.’ ”
12. Then Ahijah said to Jeroboam’s wife, “Go home now. As soon as you enter your city, your son will die,
13. and all Israel will be sad for him and bury him. He is the only one of Jeroboam’s family who will be buried, because he is the only one in the king’s family who pleased the Lord, the God of Israel.
14. “The Lord will put a new king over Israel, who will destroy Jeroboam’s family, and this will happen soon.
15. Then the Lord will punish Israel, which will be like reeds swaying in the water. The Lord will pull up Israel from this good land, the land he gave their ancestors. He will scatter Israel beyond the Euphrates River, because he is angry with the people. They made the Lord angry when they set up idols to worship Asherah.
16. Jeroboam sinned, and then he made the people of Israel sin. So the Lord will let the people of Israel be defeated.”
17. Then Jeroboam’s wife left and returned to Tirzah. As soon as she entered her home, the boy died.
18. After they buried him, all Israel had a time of sadness for him, just as the Lord had said through his servant, the prophet Ahijah.
19. Everything else Jeroboam did is written in the book of the history of the kings of Israel. He fought wars and continued to rule the people,