8. and tore the kingdom away from David’s house, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes,
9. but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods, molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back;
10. therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates on a wall, he who is shut up and he who is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung, until it is all gone.
11. The dogs will eat he who belongs to Jeroboam who dies in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat he who dies in the field: for the Lord has spoken it.”’
12. Arise therefore, and go to your house. When your feet enter into the city, the child will die.
13. All Israel will mourn for him and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam will come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the Lord, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.
14. Moreover the Lord will raise up a king for himself over Israel, who will cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is the day! What? Even now.
15. For the Lord will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of 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 will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin.”
17. Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed, and came to Tirzah. As she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.
18. All Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to the Lord’s word, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.