1 Kings 14 - Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

Disaster on the House of Jeroboam

14 At that time Abijah son of Jeroboam became sick.(A) 2 Jeroboam said to his wife, “Go disguise yourself,(B) so they won’t know that you’re Jeroboam’s wife, and go to Shiloh.(C) Ahijah the prophet is there; it was he who told about me becoming king over this people.(D) 3 Take with you 10 loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey,(E) and go to him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy.”

4 Jeroboam’s wife did that: she went to Shiloh and arrived at Ahijah’s house. Ahijah could not see; his gaze was fixed[a] due to his age.(F) 5 But the Lord had said to Ahijah, “Jeroboam’s wife is coming soon to ask you about her son, for he is sick. You are to say such and such to her. When she arrives, she will be disguised.”(G)

6 When Ahijah heard the sound of her feet entering the door, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam! Why are you disguised?(H) I have bad news for you. 7 Go tell Jeroboam, ‘This is what the Lord God of Israel says: I raised you up from among the people, appointed you ruler over My people Israel, 8 tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to you.(I) But you were not like My servant David, who kept My commands and followed Me with all of his heart, doing only what is right in My eyes. 9 You behaved more wickedly than all who were before you.(J) In order to provoke Me, you have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and cast images,(K) but you have flung Me behind your back.(L) 10 Because of all this, I am about to bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam:

I will eliminate all of Jeroboam’s males,[b]
both slave and free,[c] in Israel;
I will sweep away the house of Jeroboam
as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone!(M)
11 Anyone who belongs to Jeroboam and dies in the city,
the dogs will eat,
and anyone who dies in the field,
the birds of the sky will eat,(N)
for the Lord has said it!’

12 “As for you, get up and go to your house. When your feet enter the city, the boy will die.(O) 13 All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He alone out of Jeroboam’s house will be put in the family tomb, because out of the house of Jeroboam the Lord God of Israel found something good only in him.(P) 14 The Lord will raise up for Himself a king over Israel, who will eliminate the house of Jeroboam.(Q) This is the day, yes,[d] even today! 15 For the Lord will strike Israel and the people will shake as a reed shakes in water. He will uproot Israel from this good soil that He gave to their ancestors.(R) He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates(S) because they made their Asherah poles, provoking the Lord.(T) 16 He will give up Israel because of Jeroboam’s sins that he committed and caused Israel to commit.”(U)

17 Then Jeroboam’s wife got up and left and went to Tirzah.(V) As she was crossing the threshold of the house, the boy died. 18 He was buried, and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the Lord He had spoken through His servant Ahijah the prophet.(W)

19 As for the rest of the events of Jeroboam’s reign, how he waged war(X) and how he reigned, note that they are written in the Historical Record of Israel’s Kings. 20 The length of Jeroboam’s reign was 22 years. He rested with his fathers, and his son Nadab became king in his place.(Y)

Judah’s King Rehoboam

21 Now Rehoboam, Solomon’s son, reigned in Judah.(Z) Rehoboam was 41 years old when he became king; he reigned 17 years in Jerusalem, the city where Yahweh had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to put His name.(AA) Rehoboam’s mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.(AB)

22 Judah did what was evil in the Lord’s eyes.(AC) They provoked Him to jealous anger(AD) more than all that their ancestors had done with the sins they committed. 23 They also built for themselves high places,(AE) sacred pillars,(AF) and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree; 24 there were even male cult prostitutes in the land.(AG) They imitated all the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.(AH)

25 In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt(AI) went to war against Jerusalem.(AJ) 26 He seized the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and the treasuries of the royal palace. He took everything. He took all the gold shields that Solomon had made.(AK) 27 King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place and committed them into the care of the captains of the royal escorts[e](AL) who guarded the entrance to the king’s palace. 28 Whenever the king entered the Lord’s temple, the royal escorts would carry the shields, then they would take them back to the royal escorts’ armory.(AM)

29 The rest of the events of Rehoboam’s reign,(AN) along with all his accomplishments, are written about in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings. 30 There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam throughout their reigns.(AO) 31 Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.(AP) His son Abijam[f](AQ) became king in his place.

Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 14:4 Lit see, for his eyes stood; 1Sm 4:15
  2. 1 Kings 14:10 Lit eliminate Jeroboam’s one who urinates against the wall
  3. 1 Kings 14:10 Hb obscure
  4. 1 Kings 14:14 Hb obscure
  5. 1 Kings 14:27 Lit the runners
  6. 1 Kings 14:31 = Abijah in 2Ch 13

Cross references

  1. 14:1 : 1Kg 14:12, 17-18
  2. 14:2 : 1Sm 28:8; 2Sm 14:2-3
  3. 14:2 : Jos 18:1
  4. 14:2 : 1Kg 11:29-39
  5. 14:3 : 1Sm 9:7-8
  6. 14:4 : 1Sm 3:2; 4:15
  7. 14:5 : 2Sm 14:1-2
  8. 14:6 : 1Sm 28:12
  9. 14:7-8 : 1Kg 11:28-31; 16:2
  10. 14:9 : 1Kg 16:25, 30
  11. 14:9 : 1Kg 11:33; 12:28-33
  12. 14:9 : Neh 9:26; Ps 50:17
  13. 14:10 : 1Kg 15:29; 21:21-22
  14. 14:11 : 1Kg 16:4; 21:24
  15. 14:12 : 1Kg 14:17
  16. 14:13 : 2Ch 12:12; 19:3
  17. 14:14 : 1Kg 15:27-29
  18. 14:15 : Dt 29:28
  19. 14:15 : 2Kg 15:29; 17:6
  20. 14:15 : Ex 34:14-15; Dt 12:3-4
  21. 14:16 : 1Kg 12:28-33; 13:34; 15:30
  22. 14:17 : 1Kg 15:33; Sg 6:4
  23. 14:18 : 1Kg 14:12-13
  24. 14:19 : 1Kg 14:30; 2Ch 13:2-20
  25. 14:20 : 1Kg 15:25-26
  26. 14:21 : 1Kg 12:1-24
  27. 14:21 : Dt 12:5; 1Kg 9:3; 11:32, 36
  28. 14:21 : 2Ch 12:13
  29. 14:22 : 2Kg 17:19; 2Ch 12:1, 14
  30. 14:22 : Dt 32:21
  31. 14:23 : 1Kg 3:2; 12:31
  32. 14:23 : Ex 23:24; Dt 16:21-22
  33. 14:24 : Dt 23:17
  34. 14:24 : Ex 23:24; Dt 18:9; 2Kg 16:3; 17:15; 21:2; 3Jn 11
  35. 14:25 : 1Kg 11:40
  36. 14:25-28 : 2Ch 12:2-11
  37. 14:26 : 1Kg 10:16-17
  38. 14:27 : 1Sm 22:17; 2Sm 15:1
  39. 14:28 : 1Kg 10:17
  40. 14:29-31 : 2Ch 12:15-16
  41. 14:30 : 1Kg 12:21-24; 15:6
  42. 14:31 : 1Kg 14:21
  43. 14:31 : 1Kg 15:1-8; 2Ch 11:20; 13:1–14:1

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