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,
20. serving as king for twenty-two years. Then he died, and his son Nadab became king in his place.
21. Solomon’s son Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king of Judah. His mother was Naamah from Ammon. Rehoboam ruled in Jerusalem for seventeen years. (The Lord had chosen that city from all the land of Israel as the place where he would be worshiped.)
22. The people of Judah did what the Lord said was wrong. Their sins made the Lord very angry, even more angry than he had been at their ancestors.
23. The people built stone pillars and places to worship gods and Asherah idols on every high hill and under every green tree.
24. There were even male prostitutes in the land. They acted like the people who had lived in the land before the Israelites. They had done many evil things, and God had taken the land away from them.
25. During the fifth year Rehoboam was king, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.