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I Kings
Chapter 14
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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.
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