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

2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there

3 And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee 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 the

6 And it was

7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the

8 And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and

9 But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:

10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall,

11 Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the

12 Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house:

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

14 Moreover the

15 For the

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:

18 And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the

19 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they

20 And the days which Jeroboam reigned

21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam

22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the

23 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

24 And there were also sodomites in the land:

25 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam,

26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the

27 And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed

28 And it was

29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did,

30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all

31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother’s name