1 About that time Abijah son of Jeroboam became ill.
2 Jeroboam told his wife, "Get up and disguise yourself, so no one will recognize you as Jeroboam's wife, and go to Shiloh. Ahijah the prophet is there, the one who told me I would be king over this people.
3 Take ten loaves with you, some cakes and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what is going to happen to the boy."
4 Jeroboam's wife did as he said. She set out for Shiloh and came to Ahijah's house. Ahijah could no longer see; his eyes had grown fixed with age.
5 But the LORD had told Ahijah, "Jeroboam's wife is coming to ask you about her son, since he is ill. You are to tell her such and such. When she arrives, she will be acting as if she were someone else."
6 So when Ahijah heard her footsteps coming through the doorway, he said, "Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why are you acting as if you were someone else? I have been sent to you with a harsh message.
7 Go and tell Jeroboam, 'This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I raised you up from among the people and made you ruler over my people Israel.
8 I tore the kingdom away from David's house and gave it to you. Yet you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me with his whole heart, doing nothing but what was right in my sight.
9 You have done more evil than all who came before you. You went and made yourself other gods, images of cast metal, to provoke me, and me you have flung behind your back.
10 Because of this I am bringing evil on Jeroboam's house. I will cut off from Jeroboam every male in Israel, bond and free alike, and I will burn up the house of Jeroboam the way one burns up dung until none is left.
11 Those of Jeroboam's family who die in the town, the dogs will eat; and those who die in the countryside, the birds of the sky will eat. The LORD has spoken.'
12 As for you, get up and go home. The moment your feet enter the town, the child will die.
13 All Israel will lament for him and bury him. He is the only one of Jeroboam's family who will come to a grave, because in Jeroboam's house he alone has been found to have something good toward the LORD, the God of Israel.
14 The LORD will raise up for himself a king over Israel who will cut off Jeroboam's house on that day. And what then? Even now!
15 The LORD will strike Israel so that it sways like a reed in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land he gave their fathers and scatter them beyond the River, because they made their Asherim and provoked the LORD.
16 He will hand Israel over on account of the sins Jeroboam committed and caused Israel to commit."
17 Jeroboam's wife got up, left and went to Tirzah. Just as she stepped over the threshold of the house, the boy died.
18 They buried him, and all Israel lamented for him, as the LORD had said through his servant Ahijah the prophet.
19 As for the rest of the deeds of Jeroboam, how he fought and how he reigned, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
20 Jeroboam reigned twenty-two years. Then he lay down with his fathers, and his son Nadab reigned in his place.
21 Rehoboam son of Solomon was king in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all Israel's tribes as the place for his name. His mother was Naamah the Ammonite.
22 Judah did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and by the sins they committed they stirred up his jealousy more than their fathers had done by all of theirs.
23 They too built themselves high places, sacred pillars and Asherim on every lofty hill and beneath every leafy tree.
24 There were even male cult prostitutes in the land. They copied all the abominations of the nations the LORD had driven out before the children of Israel.
25 In King Rehoboam's fifth year Shishak king of Egypt came up to attack Jerusalem.
26 He carried off the treasures of the LORD's house and the treasures of the king's house; he carried off everything, including all the gold shields Solomon had made.
27 In their place King Rehoboam made shields of bronze and entrusted them to the commanders of the runners who guarded the entrance of the king's house.
28 Whenever the king went into the LORD's house, the runners would carry them, and afterward they would return them to the runners' chamber.
29 As for the rest of the deeds of Rehoboam and all he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
30 There was continual warfare between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.
31 Rehoboam lay down with his fathers and was buried with them in the city of David. His mother was Naamah the Ammonite. His son Abijam reigned in his place.