1 Kings 14



Ahijah Prophesies Against Jeroboam



1 At that time, Jeroboam's son Abijah became sick.

2 (1Sa 28:8; 2Sa 14:2) Jeroboam said to his wife, "Please get up

and disguise yourself, so that you will not be recognized

as the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh. There you will find

Ahijah the prophet, who told me that I would be king over this people.

3 (1Sa 9:7-8; 1Ki 13:7) Take ten loaves, cakes, and a jar of honey,

and go to him. He will tell you what will happen to our child."

4 (1Ki 11:29; 1Sa 3:2) Jeroboam's wife did so and arose and went to Shiloh,

to the house of Ahijah.

But Ahijah could not see, for in his old age he had gone blind.

5 The Lord said to Ahijah, "The wife of Jeroboam has come to ask you about

her son, for he is sick. You shall say thus and thus to her,

for when she comes, she will be disguised as another woman."

6 And so when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in the door,

he said, "Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why do you disguise yourself as another?

I have been sent to you with bad news.

7 (1Ki 16:2; 2Sa 12:7-8) Go tell Jeroboam, 'Thus says the Lord God of Israel:

I raised you up from among the people and made you prince

over My people Israel,

8 (1Ki 15:5) and took the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it you.

Yet you have not been as My servant David, who kept My commandments

and who followed Me with all his heart to do only that which was right

in My eyes,

9 (1Ki 12:28; 2Ch 11:15) but you have sinned more than all who were before you,

for you have gone and made other gods and molded images and provoked Me

to anger and have cast Me behind your back.

10 (Dt 32:36; 1Ki 21:21)" "Therefore I will bring disaster upon the house

of Jeroboam and will cut off from Jeroboam all males, both slave and free

in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam,

as a man takes away refuse until it is all gone.

11 (1Ki 16:4) Descendants of Jeroboam who die in the city will be eaten

by dogs, and those who die in the field will be eaten by the birds of the air,

for the Lord has spoken it.'



Jeroboam's Son

1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.

2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself,

that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh:

behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be king over

this people.

3 And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go

to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.

4 And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came

to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by

reason of his age.

5 And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask

a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say

unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself

to be another woman.

6 And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at

the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou

thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.

7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted

thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel,

8 and rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet

thou hast 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 mine eyes;

9 but hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and

made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast

me behind thy back:

10 therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will

cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut

up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house

of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.

11 Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that

dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath

spoken it.



{Never be disobedient nor disloyal to the Lord}



12 "Arise therefore and go to your own house. When your feet enter the city,

the child will die.

13 (2Ch 19:3; 12:12) All Israel will mourn for him and bury him, for he alone

from the house of Jeroboam will come to the grave, because in him there

is found some good thing toward the Lord God of Israel.

14 (1Ki 15:27-29) "Moreover the Lord will raise up a king over Israel who will

destroy the house of Jeroboam this day and from now on.

15 (Jos 23:15-16; 2Ki 15:29) For the Lord will smite 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 river,

because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the Lord to anger.

16 (1Ki 12:30; 13:34) He shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam

who sinned and who led Israel to sin."

17 (1Ki 15:33; 15:21) Jeroboam's wife arose and departed and came to Tirzah.

As she arrived at the threshold of the door, the child died,

18 and they buried him, and all Israel mourned for him, according

to the word of the Lord, which He spoke by the hand

of His servant Ahijah the prophet.



12 Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet enter

into the city, the child shall die.

13 And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam

shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward

the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.

14 Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off

the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.

15 For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he

shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers,

and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves,

provoking the LORD to anger.

16 And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin,

and who made Israel to sin.

17 And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when

she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;

18 and they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word

of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.



Rehoboam, King of Judah



2Ch 12:9-16



21 (2Ch 12:13; 1Ki 11:36; 14:31) Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah.

Rehoboam was 41 years old when he began to reign, and he reigned 17 years

in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen

out of all the tribes of Israel

to put His name there. And his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonitess.



21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty

and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years

in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes

of Israel, to put his name there.

And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.



{Yes a pagan wife that lead Solomon astray}



22 (2Ch 12:1; Ps 78:58) Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord,

and the people provoked Him to jealousy with the sins they committed,

even worse than their fathers had done.



22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him

to jealousy with their sins which they had committed,

above all that their fathers had done.



{A godless rebellion indeed}



23 (Dt 12:2; Isa 57:5; 2Ki 17:9-10) For they also built high places and images

and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

24 (Dt 23:17; 1Ki 15:12; 2Ki 23:7) There were also male cult prostitutes

in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the nations

that the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.



23 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every

high hill, and under every green tree.

24 And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all

the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children

of Israel.



2 Chronicles 12



Egypt Attacks Jerusalem



1Ki 14:21-31



1 (2Ch 11:17; 12:13) Now when the reign of Rehoboam was established

and strong, he, and all of Israel with him, abandoned the law of the Lord.

2 (1Ki 11:40) And in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt

went up against Jerusalem for they had acted unfaithfully against the Lord,

3 (2Ch 16:8; Na 3:9; Da 11:439 with 1200 chariots and 60000 horses.

The people were without number who came with him from Egypt-Libyans,

Sukkiktes, and Ethiopians.

4 (2Ch 11:5-12) And he captured the fortified cities that were in Judah,

and he came even to Jerusalem.

5 (2Ch 11:2; 15:2) Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam

and the rulers of Judah who were assembled in Jerusalem before Shishak,

and he said to them, "So the Lord says: You have abandoned Me,

so I have abandoned you into the hand of Shishak."

6 (Ex 9:27; Da 9:14) Then the king and the rulers of Israel humbled themselves

and said, "The Lord is righteous."

7 (2Ch 34:25) So when the Lord observed that they had humbled themselves,

the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, "They have humbled themselves,

so I will not destroy them. I will let some of them escape,

and My anger will not pour out against Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

8 (Dt 28:47-48; Isa 26:13) For they will be slaves to him so that

they experience My labor and the labor of the kingdoms of other lands."

9 (1Ki 10:16-17; 2Ch 9:15-16) So Shishak king of Egypt went up

against Jerusalem and took away the treasures of the house of the Lord

and of the palace of the king. He took everything, even the gold shields

that Solomon made.

10 And King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place

and entrusted them to the hands of the rulers of the guards,

those who guarded the entrance to the king's palace.

11 And it happened that whenever the king came to the house of the Lord,

the guards came and carried the shields

and then returned them to the guardroom.

12 (2Ch 19:3; 1Ki 14:13) And when he humbled himself, the anger of the Lord

turned away from him so that there was not a complete annihilation.

Moreover, there were some good things in Judah during this time.