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I Kings

Chapter 14

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

2 And Jeroboam said to his wife,
Arise, please/'I pray you', and disguise yourself,
that you be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam;
and get you to Shiloh.

Behold, there is Ahijah the prophet,
who told me that I should be king over this people.

3 And take with you ten loaves, and cracknels,
and a cruse of honey, and go to him.

He shall tell you 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 Jehovah/God said unto Ahijah,
Behold, the wife of Jeroboam comes
to ask a thing of you for her son;
for he is sick . . .
thus and thus shall you say unto her . . .
for it shall be, when she comes 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, you wife of Jeroboam.

Why feign you yourself to be another?

For I am sent to you with heavy tidings.

7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus says Jehovah/God
'Elohiym/Godhead of Israel,
Forasmuch as I exalted you from among the people,
and made you prince over My people Israel, 8
and rent the kingdom away from the house of David,
and gave it you.

And yet you have not been as My servant David,
who kept My commandments,
and who followed me with all his heart/'right lobe',
to do that only which was right in My eyes; 9
but have done evil above all that were before you.

For you have gone and made you other gods,
and molten images,
to provoke Me to anger,
and have cast Me behind your back.

10 Therefore, behold,
I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam,
and will cut off from Jeroboam
him who pisses against the wall,
and him who is shut up and left in Israel,
and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam,
as a man takes away dung,
till it be all gone.

11 Him who dies of Jeroboam in the city
shall the dogs eat.

And him who dies in the field
shall the fowls of the air eat . . .
for Jehovah/God has spoken it.

12 Arise you therefore,
get you to your own house
and when your 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 Jehovah/God 'Elohiym/Godhead of Israel
in the house of Jeroboam.

14 Moreover Jehovah/God shall raise him up
a king over Israel,
who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day.

But what? Even now.

15 For Jehovah/God 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 Jehovah/God 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/'doctrinal communication' {dabar}
of Jehovah/God,
which he spoke by the hand of His servant Ahijah the prophet.

19 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam,
how he warred,
and how he reigned, behold,
they are written in the book
of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

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

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 Jehovah/God did choose
out of all the tribes of Israel,
to put His name there.

And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.

22~~ And Judah did evil in the sight of Jehovah/God,
and they provoked Him to jealousy
with their sins which they had committed,
above all that their fathers had done . . . 23~~
for they also built them high places
and sacred pillars and 'Asherah
  {statues of naked women used in the Phallic cult}.

And groves, on every high hill,
and under every beautiful/green tree.

24~~ And there were also male cult prostitutes in the land
and they did according to all the abominations
of the nations which Jehovah/God
cast out before the children of Israel.

{Background for Psalm 89 - BC 921 the Shishak (also called Shi-shawk in Egypt) Invasion}
14:25-28~~And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam
  {grandson of David through Solomon - a reversionist}
that Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem.
  {Shishak was a Libyan. He was a cruel Arab} 26~~
And he took away the treasures of the house of Jehovah/God,
and the treasures of the king's house
 {part of the discipline of Rehoboam for his involvement
  in evil was the loss of the 10 northern tribes through revolt
  and here the loss of the great wealth accumulated by David and Solomon}.

He {Shishak} even took away all.

He even took away all the shields of gold
which Solomon had made. 27~~
And king Rehoboam made in their place bronze shields,
and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard,
which kept the door of the king's palace. 28~~

And it happened, that as often
as the king went into temple/' the house of Jehovah/God',
that the guard carried them {bronze shields instead of gold},
and carried brought them back into the armory.

{Note: That is the way it was. The kingdom of Rehoboam was a bronze substitute of the fine kingdoms of David and Solomon. Though both were sinners, David and Solomon mostly refrained
from the Ways of evil and Walked in the Righteous Way of God. Rehoboam swam in evil. As Jesus Said, "Beware of the one who can destroy your soul (influence you into evil), not the one who can destroy your body".}

29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam,
and all that he did,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Judah?

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

31~~And Rehoboam
  {son of Solomon; grandson of David}
rested/slept with his fathers,
and was he was buried with them in the city of David.

And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.

And Abijam his son reigned in his place/stead.