1 Kings 14:1-18
The House of Jeroboam Is Cut Off
14At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick. 2And Jeroboam said to his wife, “Arise now, and adisguise yourself so that they will not know that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to bShiloh; behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who cspoke concerning me that I would be king over this people. 3“aAnd 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.”
4Then Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose and went to aShiloh, and came to the house of bAhijah. Now Ahijah could not see, cfor his eyes had 1set because of his old age. 5Now Yahweh had said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to 1inquire 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 ashe will pretend to be another woman.”
6Now it happened as Ahijah heard the sound of her feet coming in the doorway, that 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. 7“Go, say to Jeroboam, ‘Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “aBecause I exalted you from among the people and made you ruler over My people Israel, 8and atore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you—byet you have not been like My servant David, who kept My commandments and who walked after Me with all his heart, cto do only that which was right in My sight; 9you also have done more evil than all who were before you, and ahave gone and made for yourself other gods and bmolten images to provoke Me to anger, and have ccast Me behind your back— 10therefore behold, I am bringing evil on the house of Jeroboam: I awill cut off from Jeroboam 1every male person, bboth bond and free in Israel, and I cwill make a clean sweep of the house of Jeroboam, as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone. 11“aAnyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city the dogs will eat. And he who dies in the field the birds of the sky will eat; for Yahweh has spoken it.”’ 12“But you, arise, go to your house. aWhen your feet enter the city the child will die. 13“And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for 1he alone of Jeroboam’s family will come to the grave, because in him asomething good was found toward Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam. 14“Moreover, aYahweh will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam this day 1and from now on.
15“So Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and aHe will uproot Israel from bthis good land which He gave to their fathers, and cwill scatter them beyond the 1River, dbecause they have made their 2Asherim, provoking Yahweh to anger. 16“And He will give Israel over aon account of the sins of Jeroboam, which he sinned and with which he made Israel to sin.”