Ahijah’s Prophecy against Jeroboam

At that time Abijah son of Jeroboam became sick. And Jeroboam said to his wife, “Arise, please, and disguise yourself, that they may not recognize that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh. Behold, there is Ahijah the prophet; he spoke concerning me as king over this people. And take with you ten loaves, and some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will become of the child.”

And the wife of Jeroboam did so, and she arose and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah. And Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were glazed because of his age. And YHWH had said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to seek a word from you about her son, for he is sick. This and this you shall say to her, and it will come to pass when she comes in that she will be disguised.”

And it came to pass, when Ahijah heard the sound of her footsteps as she came through the door, that he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam! Why is this that you are disguised? For I am sent to you with a harsh thing. Go, tell Jeroboam, thus says YHWH, God of Israel, ‘Because that I exalted you from among the people and made you ruler over My people Israel, and I tore away the kingdom from the house of David and gave it to you, and you have not been as My servant David who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only right in My eyes—

and you have done evil more than all who were before you, and for you have gone and made for yourself other gods and molten images, to provoke Me to anger, and you have cast Me behind your back— therefore behold, I will bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam:

And I will cut off from Jeroboam he who urinates against the wall,

bond and free,

in Israel,

and I will burn up the remnant of the house of Jeroboam

as one burns up the dung until it is gone.

Whoever dies of Jeroboam in the city

the dogs shall eat,

and whoever dies in the field

the birds of the heavens shall eat.’

For YHWH has spoken.

And you arise, go to your own house. When your feet enter the city, the child shall die. And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for this is the only one who shall come of Jeroboam to the grave, because there is found in him something good toward YHWH, God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

And YHWH will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is the day—and what? Even now! For YHWH will strike Israel as the reed is shaken in the waters, and He will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave to their fathers, and He will scatter them beyond the River† upon that they have made their Asherah poles, which provoked to anger YHWH. And He will give up Israel because of the sins of Jeroboam, who sinned, and who caused Israel to sin.”

And the wife of Jeroboam arose and departed and came to Tirzah; she was entering to the threshold of the house, and the child died. And they buried him, and all Israel mourned for him according to the word of YHWH, which He spoke by the hand of His servant Ahijah the prophet.

Nadab Succeeds Jeroboam

And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he made war and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Days of the Kings of Israel.

And the days that Jeroboam reigned were twenty-two years, and he rested with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.

Rehoboam Reigns in Judah
(2 Chronicles 12:13–14)

21And Rehoboam son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was a son of forty-one years in his reigning, and seventeen years he reigned in Jerusalem, the city that YHWH had chosen to put His name in it out of all the tribes of Israel. And the name of his mother was Naamah, the Ammonitess.

22And Judah did evil in the eyes of YHWH, and they provoked Him to jealousy more than all that their fathers had done by their sins that they sinned. 23For they even built for themselves high places, and pillars, and Asherah poles, on every high hill and under every green tree. 24And also there were male shrine prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that YHWH had cast out before the sons of Israel.

Shishak Raids Jerusalem
(2 Chronicles 12:1–12)

25And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak King of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. 26And he took away the treasures of the house of YHWH, and the treasures of the house of the king. And he took the entirety, and he took all the gold shields that Solomon had made.

27And King Rehoboam made in their place bronze shields and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guards who guarded the doorway of the house of the king. 28And whenever the king entered the house of YHWH, the guards carried them and brought them back into the chamber guardroom.

29And the rest of the acts of Rehoboam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Days of the Kings of Judah?

30And there was war between Rehoboam and between Jeroboam all the days. 31And Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the City of David. And the name of his mother was Naamah the Ammonitess. And Abijam† his son reigned in his place.