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At that time[H6256]Abijah[H29] the son[H1121] of Jeroboam[H3379] fell sick[H2470].
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And Jeroboam[H3379]said[H559] to his wife[H802], Arise[H6965], I pray thee, and disguise[H8138] thyself, that thou be not known[H3045] to be the wife[H802] of Jeroboam[H3379]; and get[H1980] thee to Shiloh[H7887]: behold, there is Ahijah[H281] the prophet[H5030], which told[H1696] me that I should be king[H4428] over this people[H5971].
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And take[H3947] with thee[H3027]ten[H6235]loaves[H3899], and cracknels[H5350], and a cruse[H1228] of honey[H1706], and go[H935] to him: he shall tell[H5046]thee[H3027] what shall become of the child[H5288].
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And Jeroboam's wife[H802] did so[H6213], and arose[H6965], and went[H3212] to Shiloh[H7887], and came[H935] to the house[H1004] of Ahijah[H281]. But Ahijah[H281]could[H3201] not see[H7200]; for his eyes[H5869] were set[H6965] by reason of his age[H7869].
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And the LORD[H3068]said[H559] unto Ahijah[H281], Behold, the wife[H802] of Jeroboam[H3379]cometh[H935] to ask[H1875] a thing[H1697] of thee for her son[H1121]; for he is sick[H2470]: thus[H2090] and thus[H2090] shalt thou say[H1696] unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh[H935]in[H935], that she shall feign herself to be another[H5234] woman.
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And it was so, when Ahijah[H281]heard[H8085] the sound[H6963] of her feet[H7272], as she came in[H935] at the door[H6607], that he said[H559], Come in[H935], thou wife[H802] of Jeroboam[H3379]; why feignest thou thyself to be another?[H5234] for I am sent[H7971] to thee with heavy[H7186] tidings.
7Go[H3212], tell[H559]Jeroboam[H3379], Thus saith[H559] the LORD[H3068]God[H430] of Israel[H3478], Forasmuch as[H3282] I exalted[H7311] thee from among[H8432] the people[H5971], and made[H5414] thee prince[H5057] over my people[H5971]Israel[H3478],
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And rent[H7167] the kingdom[H4467]away[H7167] from the house[H1004] of David[H1732], and gave[H5414] it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant[H5650]David[H1732], who kept[H8104] my commandments[H4687], and who followed[H1980] me with all his heart[H3824], to do[H6213] that only which was right[H3477] in mine eyes[H5869];
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But hast done[H6213]evil[H7489] above all that were before[H6440] thee: for thou hast gone[H3212] and made[H6213] thee other[H312]gods[H430], and molten images[H4541], to provoke me to anger[H3707], and hast cast[H7993] me behind[H310] thy back[H1458]:
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Therefore, behold, I will bring[H935]evil[H7451] upon the house[H1004] of Jeroboam[H3379], and will cut off[H3772] from Jeroboam[H3379] him that pisseth[H8366] against the wall[H7023], and him that is shut up[H6113] and left[H5800] in Israel[H3478], and will take away[H1197] the remnant[H310] of the house[H1004] of Jeroboam[H3379], as a man taketh away[H1197]dung[H1557], till it be all gone[H8552].
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Him that dieth[H4191] of Jeroboam[H3379] in the city[H5892] shall the dogs[H3611]eat[H398]; and him that dieth[H4191] in the field[H7704] shall the fowls[H5775] of the air[H8064]eat[H398]: for the LORD[H3068] hath spoken[H1696] it.
12Arise[H6965] thou therefore, get[H3212] thee to thine own house[H1004]: and when thy feet[H7272]enter[H935] into the city[H5892], the child[H3206] shall die[H4191].
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And all Israel[H3478] shall mourn[H5594] for him, and bury[H6912] him: for he only of Jeroboam[H3379] shall come[H935] to the grave[H6913], because in him there is found[H4672] some good[H2896]thing[H1697] toward the LORD[H3068]God[H430] of Israel[H3478] in the house[H1004] of Jeroboam[H3379].
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Moreover the LORD[H3068] shall raise him up[H6965] a king[H4428] over Israel[H3478], who shall cut off[H3772] the house[H1004] of Jeroboam[H3379] that day[H3117]: but what? even now.
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For the LORD[H3068] shall smite[H5221]Israel[H3478], as a reed[H7070] is shaken[H5110] in the water[H4325], and he shall root up[H5428]Israel[H3478] out of this good[H2896]land[H127], which he gave[H5414] to their fathers[H1], and shall scatter[H2219] them beyond[H5676] the river[H5104], because they have made[H6213] their groves[H842], provoking the LORD[H3068] to anger[H3707].
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And he shall give[H5414]Israel[H3478]up[H5414]because[H1558] of the sins[H2403] of Jeroboam[H3379], who did sin[H2398], and who made Israel[H3478] to sin[H2398].
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And Jeroboam's wife[H802]arose[H6965], and departed[H3212], and came[H935] to Tirzah[H8656]: and when she came[H935] to the threshold[H5592] of the door[H1004], the child[H5288]died[H4191];
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And they buried[H6912] him; and all Israel[H3478]mourned[H5594] for him, according to the word[H1697] of the LORD[H3068], which he spake[H1696] by the hand[H3027] of his servant[H5650]Ahijah[H281] the prophet[H5030].
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And the rest[H3499] of the acts[H1697] of Jeroboam[H3379], how he warred[H3898], and how he reigned[H4427], behold, they are written[H3789] in the book[H5612] of the chronicles[H1697] of the kings[H4428] of Israel[H3478].
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And the days[H3117] which Jeroboam[H3379]reigned[H4427] were two[H8147] and twenty[H6242]years[H8141]: and he slept[H7901] with his fathers[H1], and Nadab[H5070] his son[H1121]reigned[H4427] in his stead.
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And Rehoboam[H7346] the son[H1121] of Solomon[H8010]reigned[H4427] in Judah[H3063]. Rehoboam[H7346] was forty[H705] and one[H259]years[H8141]old[H1121] when he began to reign[H4427], and he reigned[H4427]seventeen[H7651]years[H8141] in Jerusalem[H3389], the city[H5892] which the LORD[H3068] did choose[H977] out of all the tribes[H7626] of Israel[H3478], to put[H7760] his name[H8034] there. And his mother's name[H8034] was Naamah[H5279] an Ammonitess[H5985].
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And Judah[H3063]did[H6213]evil[H7451] in the sight[H5869] of the LORD[H3068], and they provoked him to jealousy[H7065] with their sins[H2403] which they had committed[H2398], above all that their fathers[H1] had done[H6213].
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For they also built[H1129] them high[H1364]places[H1116], and images[H4676], and groves[H842], on every high[H1364]hill[H1389], and under every green[H7488]tree[H6086].
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And there were also sodomites[H6945] in the land[H776]: and they did[H6213] according to all the abominations[H8441] of the nations[H1471] which the LORD[H3068] cast out[H3423]before[H6440] the children[H1121] of Israel[H3478].
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And it came to pass in the fifth[H2549]year[H8141] of king[H4428]Rehoboam[H7346], that Shishak[H7895]king[H4428] of Egypt[H4714] came up[H5927] against Jerusalem[H3389]:
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And he took away[H3947] the treasures[H214] of the house[H1004] of the LORD[H3068], and the treasures[H214] of the king's house[H1004]; he even took away[H3947] all: and he took away[H3947] all the shields[H4043] of gold[H2091] which Solomon[H8010] had made[H6213].
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And king[H4428]Rehoboam[H7346]made[H6213] in their stead brasen[H5178]shields[H4043], and committed[H6485] them unto the hands[H3027] of the chief[H8269] of the guard[H7323], which kept[H8104] the door[H6607] of the king[H4428]'s house[H1004].
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And it was so, when[H1767] the king[H4428]went[H935] into the house[H1004] of the LORD[H3068], that the guard[H7323]bare[H5375] them, and brought them back[H7725] into the guard[H7323]chamber[H8372].
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Now the rest[H3499] of the acts[H1697] of Rehoboam[H7346], and all that he did[H6213], are they not written[H3789] in the book[H5612] of the chronicles[H1697] of the kings[H4428] of Judah?[H3063]
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And there was war[H4421] between Rehoboam[H7346] and Jeroboam[H3379] all their days[H3117].
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And Rehoboam[H7346]slept[H7901] with his fathers[H1], and was buried[H6912] with his fathers[H1] in the city[H5892] of David[H1732]. And his mother's name[H8034] was Naamah[H5279] an Ammonitess[H5985]. And Abijam[H38] his son[H1121]reigned[H4427] in his stead.