thereon,
14 And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art
thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.
15 Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread.
16 And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor
drink water with thee in this place:
17 For it was said to me by the word of the LORD, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water
there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest.
18 He said unto him, I ama prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of
the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink
water. Buthe lied unto him.
19 So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.
20 And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the LORD came unto the
prophet that brought him back:
21 And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD,
Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment
which the LORD thy God commanded thee,
22 But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which the LORD
did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre
of thy fathers.
23 And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for
him the ass, to wit, for the prophet whom he had brought back.
24 And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in
the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase.
25 And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by
the carcase: and they came and told itin the city where the old prophet dwelt.
26 And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said, It isthe
man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered
him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which
he spake unto him.
27 And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled him.
28 And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the
carcase: the lion had not eaten the carcase, nor torn the ass.
29 And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought
it back: and the old prophet came to the city, to mourn and to bury him.
30 And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my
brother!
31 And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am
dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God isburied; lay my bones beside his
bones:
32 For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel, and
against all the houses of the high places which arein the cities of Samaria, shall surely come
to pass.
33 After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of
the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one
of the priests of the high places.
34 And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut itoff, and to destroy it
from off the face of the earth.
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 isAhijah the prophet,
which told me that I should beking over this people.
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 LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for
her son; for he issick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in,
that she shall feign herself to beanother 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, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to beanother? for I amsent to
thee withheavy tidings.
7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among
the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel,
8 And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yetthou hast not
been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart,
to do thatonly which wasright in mine eyes;
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, andhim that is shut up and left in Israel, and will
take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.
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 LORD hath spoken it.
12 Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: andwhen thy 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 somegood thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house
of Jeroboam.
14 Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of
Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.
15 For the LORD 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 the LORD 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: andwhen 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 of the LORD,
which he spake 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 weretwo and twenty years: and he slept with his
fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam wasforty and one years old
when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD
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 the LORD, 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 images, and groves, on every high hill, and under
every green tree.
24 And there were also sodomites in the land: andthey did according to all the abominations of
the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
25 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, thatShishak king of Egypt came up
against Jerusalem:
26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's
house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
27 And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed themunto the hands
of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king's house.
28 And it was so, when the king went into the house of the LORD, that the guard bare them, and
brought them back into the guard chamber.
29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, arethey not written in the book of
the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all theirdays.
31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David.
And his mother's name wasNaamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.
1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.
2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name wasMaachah, the daughter of
Abishalom.
3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was
not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.
4 Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his
son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:
5 Because David did that which wasright in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any
thingthat he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the
Hittite.
6 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
7 Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, arethey not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
8 And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son
reigned in his stead.
9 And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah.
10 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name wasMaachah, the
daughter of Abishalom.
11 And Asa did that which wasright in the eyes of the LORD, as didDavid his father.
12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers
had made.
13 And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from beingqueen, because she had made
an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt itby the brook Kidron.
14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD
all his days.
15 And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which himself
had dedicated, into the house of the LORD, silver, and gold, and vessels.
16 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
17 And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not suffer
any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.