Thematic Bible




1 Kings 14:1 (show verse)

At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.

1 Kings 14:2 (show verse)

And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, please, and disguise yourself so that you will not be known to be the wife of Jeroboam. And go to Shiloh. Behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, who told me about being king over this people.

1 Kings 14:3 (show verse)

And take ten loaves, and cakes, and a jar of honey with you, and go to him. And he will tell you what shall become of the boy.

1 Kings 14:4 (show verse)

And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose and went to Shiloh. And she came to the house of Ahijah. And Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were set because of his age.

1 Kings 14:5 (show verse)

And Jehovah said to Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam comes to ask a thing of you for her son, for he is sick. This and this you shall say to her, for when she comes in, she shall act as a stranger.

1 Kings 14:6 (show verse)

And it happened when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the door, he said, Come in, wife of Jeroboam! Why are you acting as a stranger? For I am sent to you with a hard thing.

1 Kings 14:7 (show verse)

Go tell Jeroboam, So says Jehovah, the God of Israel, I lifted you up from among the people, and made you ruler over My people Israel,

1 Kings 14:8 (show verse)

and tore the kingdom away 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 what was right in My eyes.

1 Kings 14:9 (show verse)

But you have done evil above all who were before you, for you have gone and made yourself other gods, and molded images, to provoke Me to anger, and have cast Me behind your back;

1 Kings 14:10 (show verse)

therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates against the wall, bound and free in Israel, and will sweep away the rest of the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away the dung, until it is all gone.

1 Kings 14:11 (show verse)

Those of Jeroboam who die in the city, the dogs shall eat. And those who die in the field, the fowls of the air shall eat. For Jehovah has spoken.

1 Kings 14:12 (show verse)

And arise, get down to your own house. When your feet enter into the city, the boy shall die.

1 Kings 14:13 (show verse)

And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him. For he only of Jeroboam shall come down to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward Jehovah, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

1 Kings 14:14 (show verse)

And Jehovah shall raise up a king over Israel for Himself, a king who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day. And what? Even now!

1 Kings 14:15 (show verse)

For Jehovah shall strike Israel as the reed waves 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 Asherahs, provoking Jehovah to anger.

1 Kings 14:16 (show verse)

And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who sinned, and that he made Israel to sin.

1 Kings 14:17 (show verse)

And Jeroboam's wife arose, and left, and came to Tirzah. When she came to the doorsill the boy died.

1 Kings 14:18 (show verse)

And they buried him, and all Israel mourned for him, according to the Word of Jehovah which He spoke by the hand of His servant Ahijah the prophet.

1 Kings 14:19 (show verse)

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

1 Kings 14:20 (show verse)

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

1 Kings 14:21 (show verse)

And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Jehovah chose out of all the tribes of Israel to put His name there. And his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonitess.

1 Kings 14:22 (show verse)

And Judah did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and they provoked Him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.

1 Kings 14:23 (show verse)

For they also built high places for themselves, and images, and Asherahs, on every high hill and under every green tree.

1 Kings 14:24 (show verse)

And also the sodomite was in the land. They did according to all the hateful things of the nations which Jehovah cast out before the sons of Israel.

1 Kings 14:25 (show verse)

And it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt, he came up against Jerusalem.

1 Kings 14:26 (show verse)

And he took away the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king's house. He took all away. And he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

1 Kings 14:27 (show verse)

And King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place, and committed them to the hands of the chief of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house.

1 Kings 14:28 (show verse)

And it happened when the king went into the house of Jehovah, the guard carried them and brought them back into the guard chamber.

1 Kings 14:29 (show verse)

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

1 Kings 14:30 (show verse)

And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.

1 Kings 14:31 (show verse)

And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonitess. And his son Abijam reigned in his place.