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and against all the shrines on the high places shall die. And all Israel shall mourn for him
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which are in the cities of Samaria, will surely and bury him, for he is the only one of
come to pass.” Jeroboam who shall come to the grave,
33 After this event Jeroboam did not turn because in him there is found something good
from his evil way, but again he made priests toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of
from every class of people for the high places; Jeroboam.
whoever wished, he consecrated him, and he 14 “Moreover the LORD will raise up for
became one of the priests of the high places. Himself a king over Israel who shall cut off the
34 And this thing was the sin of the house of house of Jeroboam; this is the day. What?
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Jeroboam, so as to exterminate and destroy it Even now! For the LORD will strike Israel, as
from the face of the earth. a reed is shaken in the water. He will uproot
At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam Israel from this good land which He gave to
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14 became sick. And Jeroboam said to his their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the
wife, “Please arise, and disguise yourself, that River, because they have made their wooden
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they may not recognize you as the wife of Jero- images, provoking the LORD to anger. And
boam, and go to Shiloh. Indeed, Ahijah the
prophet is there, who told me that I would be
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king over this people. Also take with you ten
loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go
to him; he will tell you what will become of the 14:15 Ahijah announced God’s stern judgment
on Israel for joining Jeroboam’s apostasy.Struck
child.” And Jeroboam’s wife did so; she arose by the Lord, Israel would sway like a reed in a
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and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of rushing river, a biblical metaphor for political
Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see, for his eyes instability (Matt. 11:7; Luke 7:24). One day, the
were glazed by reason of his age. Lord would uproot Israel from Palestinian soil
5 Now the LORD had said to Ahijah, “Here is and scatter it in exile east of the Euphrates.The
the wife of Jeroboam, coming to ask you fulfillment of this prophecy is recorded in
something about her son, for he is sick. Thus 2Kings 17:23.
and thus you shall say to her; for it will be,
when she comes in, that she will pretend to be
another woman.” He will give Israel up because of the sins of
6 And so it was, when Ahijah heard the sound Jeroboam, who sinned and who made Israel
of her footsteps as she came through the door, sin.”
he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why do 17 Then Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed,
you pretend to be another person? For I have and came to Tirzah. When she came to the
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been sent to you with bad news. Go, tell threshold of the house, the child died. And
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Jeroboam, ‘Thus says the LORD God of Israel: they buried him; and all Israel mourned for
“Because I exalted you from among the peo- him, according to the word of the LORD which
ple, and made you ruler over My people Is- He spoke through His servant Ahijah the
rael, and tore the kingdom away from the prophet.
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house of David, and gave it to you; and yet you 19 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how
have not been as My servant David, who kept he made war and how he reigned, indeed they
My commandments and who followed Me are written in the book of the chronicles of the
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with all his heart, to do only what was right in kings of Israel. The period that Jeroboam
My eyes; but you have done more evil than all reigned was twenty-two years. So he rested
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who were before you, for you have gone and with his fathers. Then Nadab his son reigned
made for yourself other gods and molded in his place.
images to provoke Me to anger, and have cast 21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon
Me behind your back— therefore behold! I reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one
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will bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam, years old when he became king. He reigned
and will cut off from Jeroboam every male in seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which
Israel, bond and free; I will take away the rem- the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Is-
nant of the house of Jeroboam, as one takes rael, to put His name there. His mother’s
away refuse until it is all gone. The dogs shall name was Naamah, an Ammonitess. Now Ju-
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eat whoever belongs to Jeroboam and dies in dah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they
the city, and the birds of the air shall eat who- provoked Him to jealousy with their sins
ever dies in the field; for the LORD has spo- which they committed, more than all that their
ken!” ’ Arise therefore, go to your own fathers had done. For they also built for them-
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house. When your feet enter the city, the child selves high places, sacred pillars, and wooden
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