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Ahijah
Prophesies against the King |
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| 1 Kings 14:1 |
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At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became
sick. |
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| 1 Kings 14:2 |
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Jeroboam said to his wife, "Arise now, and disguise
yourself so that they will not know that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go
to Shiloh; behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who spoke concerning me that I
would be king over this people. |
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| 1 Kings 14:3 |
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Take ten loaves with you, some cakes and a jar
of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy." |
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| 1 Kings 14:4 |
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Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose and went
to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see, for his
eyes were dim because of his age. |
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| 1 Kings 14:5 |
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Now the LORD had said to Ahijah, "Behold, the
wife of Jeroboam is coming to inquire of you concerning her son, for he is sick.
You shall say thus and thus to her, for it will be when she arrives that she will
pretend to be another woman." |
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| 1 Kings 14:6 |
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When Ahijah heard the sound of her feet coming
in the doorway, he said, "Come in, wife of Jeroboam, why do you pretend to be
another woman? For I am sent to you with a harsh message. |
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| 1 Kings 14:7 |
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Go, say to Jeroboam, 'Thus says the LORD God
of Israel, "Because I exalted you from among the people and made you leader over
My people Israel, |
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| 1 Kings 14:8 |
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and tore the kingdom away from the house of
David and gave it to you--yet you have not been like My servant David, who kept
My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only that which
was right in My sight; |
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| 1 Kings 14:9 |
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you also have done more evil than all who were
before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods and molten images to
provoke Me to anger, and have cast Me behind your back-- |
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| 1 Kings 14:10 |
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therefore behold, I am bringing calamity on
the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every male person, both
bond and free in Israel, and I will make a clean sweep of the house of Jeroboam,
as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone. |
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| 1 Kings 14:11 |
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Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the
city the dogs will eat. And he who dies in the field the birds of the heavens
will eat; for the LORD has spoken it."' |
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| 1 Kings 14:12 |
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Now you, arise, go to your house. When your
feet enter the city the child will die. |
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| 1 Kings 14:13 |
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All Israel shall mourn for him and bury him,
for he alone of Jeroboam's family will come to the grave, because in him something
good was found toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam. |
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| 1 Kings 14:14 |
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Moreover, the LORD will raise up for Himself
a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam this day and from now
on. |
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| 1 Kings 14:15 |
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"For the LORD will strike 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 Euphrates River, because
they have made their Asherim, provoking the LORD to anger. |
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| 1 Kings 14:16 |
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He will give up Israel on account of the sins
of Jeroboam, which he committed and with which he made Israel to sin." |
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| 1 Kings 14:17 |
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Then Jeroboam's wife arose and departed and
came to Tirzah. As she was entering the threshold of the house, the child died. |
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| 1 Kings 14:18 |
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All Israel buried him and mourned for him,
according to the word of the LORD which He spoke through His servant Ahijah the
prophet. |
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| 1 Kings 14:19 |
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Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he
made war and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles
of the Kings of Israel. |
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| 1 Kings 14:20 |
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The time that Jeroboam reigned was twenty-two
years; and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place. |
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Rehoboam
Misleads Judah |
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| 1 Kings 14:21 |
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Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah.
Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen
years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of
Israel to put His name there. And his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. |
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| 1 Kings 14:22 |
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Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and
they provoked Him to jealousy more than all that their fathers had done, with
the sins which they committed. |
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| 1 Kings 14:23 |
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For they also built for themselves high places
and sacred pillars and Asherim on every high hill and beneath every luxuriant
tree. |
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| 1 Kings 14:24 |
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There were also male cult prostitutes in the
land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD
dispossessed before the sons of Israel. |
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| 1 Kings 14:25 |
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Now it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam,
that Shishak the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. |
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| 1 Kings 14:26 |
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He took away the treasures of the house of the
LORD and the treasures of the king's house, and he took everything, even taking
all the shields of gold which Solomon had made. |
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| 1 Kings 14:27 |
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So King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their
place, and committed them to the care of the commanders of the guard who guarded
the doorway of the king's house. |
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| 1 Kings 14:28 |
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Then it happened as often as the king entered
the house of the LORD, that the guards would carry them and would bring them back
into the guards' room. |
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| 1 Kings 14:29 |
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Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam and all
that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of
Judah? |
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| 1 Kings 14:30 |
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There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam
continually. |
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| 1 Kings 14:31 |
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And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was
buried with his fathers in the city of David; and his mother's name was Naamah
the Ammonitess. And Abijam his son became king in his place. |
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