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 unto his wife, "Up, a fellowship, and change thine apparel that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam, and get thee to Shiloh. For there is Ahijah the prophet which told me that I should be king over this people.

1 Kings 14:3 (show verse)

And take with thee ten loaves and cracknels and a cruse of honey, and go to him: for he will tell thee what shall come of the lad."

1 Kings 14:4 (show verse)

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

1 Kings 14:5 (show verse)

And the LORD said unto Ahijah, "Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh, to question with thee about her son which is sick. This wise and this wise answer her." And when she came, she feigned herself to be another woman.

1 Kings 14:6 (show verse)

But when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came to the door, he said, "Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam: why feignest thou thyself to be another? I am sent to thee a cruel messenger.

1 Kings 14:7 (show verse)

Go and tell Jeroboam, thus sayeth the LORD God of Israel: 'Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the common people and made thee prince over my people Israel,

1 Kings 14:8 (show verse)

and did rent the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it thee - and thou hast not been as was my servant David, which kept my commandments and followed me with all his heart, to do that only which seemeth right in mine eyes -

1 Kings 14:9 (show verse)

but hast done evil above all that were before thee, and hast gone and made the other gods and images of metal, to provoke me, and hast cast me behind thy back.

1 Kings 14:10 (show verse)

Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam and will strike from Jeroboam all that pisseth against the wall, and whatsoever is in prison or forsaken in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as men take away a dung hill, till it be consumed.

1 Kings 14:11 (show verse)

And whosoever of Jeroboam's house die in the town, him shall the dogs eat, and him that dieth in the field, shall the fowls of the air eat': for the LORD hath said it.

1 Kings 14:12 (show verse)

Up, and get thee to thine house, and as soon as thy foot enterest the city, the lad shall die.

1 Kings 14:13 (show verse)

Howbeit, all Israel shall mourn him and bury him, for this only of all Jeroboam shall come to the sepulchre, because in him there is found goodness toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.

1 Kings 14:14 (show verse)

Moreover, the LORD shall stir him up a king over Israel which shall destroy the house of Jeroboam in that day. And what is that, that is now in hand?

1 Kings 14:15 (show verse)

And the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed that groweth in the water is shaken, and will weed Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond Euphrates, because they have made them groves to anger the LORD.

1 Kings 14:16 (show verse)

And he will give Israel up, because of the sin of Jeroboam wherewith he did sin and made Israel sin thereto."

1 Kings 14:17 (show verse)

And Jeroboam's wife arose and departed and went to Tirzah, and by that she was come to the threshold of the door, the lad was dead.

1 Kings 14:18 (show verse)

And all Israel buried him and lamented him, according to the word of the LORD which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the Prophet.

1 Kings 14:19 (show verse)

And the rest of the deeds of Jeroboam - how he warred and how he reigned - are written in the book of the stories of the kings of Israel.

1 Kings 14:20 (show verse)

And the days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty two years. And then he rested with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.

1 Kings 14:21 (show verse)

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

1 Kings 14:22 (show verse)

And Judah wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD and angered him above all that their fathers did, with their sin which they sinned.

1 Kings 14:23 (show verse)

For they also made them hill altars and images and groves on every high hill and under every green tree.

1 Kings 14:24 (show verse)

And thereto there was a stews of male children in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

1 Kings 14:25 (show verse)

And the fifth year of king Rehoboam came Shishak king of Egypt up to Jerusalem,

1 Kings 14:26 (show verse)

and took away the treasure of the house of the LORD, and the treasure of the king's house and all that was to be had. And he took away the shields of gold which Solomon made.

1 Kings 14:27 (show verse)

In whose stead, king Rehoboam made brazen shields and put them in the keeping of the captains of the guard which waited at the door of the king's house.

1 Kings 14:28 (show verse)

And as oft as the king went in to the house of the LORD, they of his guard bare them, and ever brought them again into the guard chamber.

1 Kings 14:29 (show verse)

The rest of the acts of king Rehoboam and all he did, are written in the book of Acts of the kings of Judah.

1 Kings 14:30 (show verse)

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

1 Kings 14:31 (show verse)

And Rehoboam laid him to rest with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonite. And Abijam his son reigned in his room.