The First Book of Kings, starting at chapter 13
{13:1} Behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of
the LORD to Beth El: and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn
incense. {13:2} He cried against the altar by the word of the LORD,
and said, "Altar, altar, thus says the LORD: 'Behold, a son shall be
born to the house of David, Josiah by name. On you he shall sacrifice
the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and they will
burn men's bones on you.'" {13:3} He gave a sign the same day, saying,
"This is the sign which the LORD has spoken: Behold, the altar will be
split apart, and the ashes that are on it will be poured out."
{13:4} It happened, when the king heard the saying of the man of
God, which he cried against the altar in Bethel, that Jeroboam put out
his hand from the altar, saying, "Seize him!" His hand, which he put
out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back again to
himself. {13:5} The altar also was split apart, and the ashes poured
out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had
given by the word of the LORD. {13:6} The king answered the man of
God, "Now entreat the favor of the LORD your God, and pray for me,
that my hand may be restored me again."
The man of God entreated the LORD, and the king's hand was restored
him again, and became as it was before.
{13:7} The king said to the man of God, "Come home with me, and
refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward."
{13:8} The man of God said to the king, "Even if you gave me half of
your house, I would not go in with you, neither would I eat bread nor
drink water in this place; {13:9} for so was it commanded me by the
word of the LORD, saying, 'You shall eat no bread, nor drink water,
neither return by the way that you came.'" {13:10} So he went another
way, and didn't return by the way that he came to Bethel.
{13:11} Now there lived an old prophet in Bethel; and one of his
sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that
day in Bethel. They also told their father the words which he had
spoken to the king.
{13:12} Their father said to them, "Which way did he go?" Now his
sons had seen which way the man of God went, who came from Judah.
{13:13} He said to his sons, "Saddle the donkey for me." So they
saddled the donkey for him; and he rode on it. {13:14} He went after
the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak. He said to him,
"Are you the man of God who came from Judah?"
He said, "I am." {13:15} Then he said to him, "Come home with me,
and eat bread."
{13:16} He said, "I may not return with you, nor go in with you;
neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place.
{13:17} For it was said to me by the word of the LORD, 'You shall eat
no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that
you came.'"
{13:18} He said to him, "I also am a prophet as you are; and an
angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, 'Bring him back
with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.'" He
lied to him.
{13:19} So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and
drank water. {13:20} It happened, as they sat at the table, that the
word of the LORD came to the prophet who brought him back; {13:21} and
he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, "Thus says the
LORD, 'Because you have been disobedient to the mouth of the LORD, and
have not kept the commandment which the LORD your God commanded you,
{13:22} but came back, and have eaten bread and drunk water in the
place of which he said to you, "Eat no bread, and drink no water";
your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.'"
{13:23} It happened, after he had eaten bread, and after he had
drunk, that he saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought
back. {13:24} When he had gone, a lion met him by the way, and killed
him. His body was cast in the way, and the donkey stood by it. The
lion also stood by the body. {13:25} Behold, men passed by, and saw
the body cast in the way, and the lion standing by the body; and they
came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived. {13:26} When
the prophet who brought him back from the way heard of it, he said,
"It is the man of God who was disobedient to the mouth of the LORD.
Therefore the LORD has delivered him to the lion, which has mauled him
and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke to
him." {13:27} He spoke to his sons, saying, "Saddle the donkey for
me." They saddled it. {13:28} He went and found his body cast in the
way, and the donkey and the lion standing by the body. The lion had
not eaten the body, nor mauled the donkey. {13:29} The prophet took up
the body of the man of God, and laid it on the donkey, and brought it
back. He came to the city of the old prophet to mourn, and to bury
him. {13:30} He laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over
him, saying, "Alas, my brother!"
{13:31} It happened, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his
sons, saying, "When I am dead, then bury me in the tomb in which the
man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones. {13:32} 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 are in the
cities of Samaria, will surely happen."
{13:33} After this thing Jeroboam didn't return from his evil way,
but again made priests of the high places from among all the people.
Whoever wanted to, he consecrated him, that there might be priests of
the high places. {13:34} This thing became sin to the house of
Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the surface
of the earth.
{14:1} At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. {14:2}
Jeroboam said to his wife, "Please get up and disguise yourself, that
you won't be recognized as the wife of Jeroboam. Go to Shiloh. Behold,
there is Ahijah the prophet, who spoke concerning me that I should be
king over this people. {14:3} Take with you ten loaves, and cakes, and
a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will become of
the child."
{14:4} Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and
came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes
were set by reason of his age. {14:5} The LORD said to Ahijah,
"Behold, the wife of Jeroboam comes to inquire of you concerning her
son; for he is sick. Thus and thus you shall tell her; for it will be,
when she comes in, that she will pretend to be another woman."
{14:6} 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
do you pretend to be another? For I am sent to you with heavy news.
{14:7} Go, tell Jeroboam, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel:
"Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you prince over
my people Israel, {14:8} and tore 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, to
do that only which was right in my eyes, {14:9} but have done evil
above all who were before you, and have gone and made you other gods,
and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind
your back: {14:10} therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house
of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who [1>]urinates
on a wall,[<1] he who is shut up and he who is left at large in
Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man
sweeps away dung, until it is all gone. {14:11} He who dies of
Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and he who dies in the field
shall the birds of the sky eat: for the LORD has spoken it."' {14:12}
Arise therefore, and go to your house. When your feet enter into the
city, the child shall die. {14:13} 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 the LORD, the God of Israel,
in the house of Jeroboam. {14:14} Moreover the LORD will raise him up
a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is
day! What? Even now. {14:15} For the LORD will strike Israel, as a
reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this
good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond
the River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking the LORD to
anger. {14:16} He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam,
which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin."
{14:17} Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah. As
she came to the threshold of the house, the child died. {14:18} All
Israel buried him, and mourned for him, according to the word of the
LORD, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet. {14:19} 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. {14:20} The days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty
years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his
place. {14:21} Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam
was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out
of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's
name was Naamah the Ammonitess. {14:22} Judah did that which was evil
in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their
sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.
{14:23} For they also built them high places, and pillars, and
Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree; {14:24} and
there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the
abominations of the nations which the LORD drove out before the
children of Israel. {14:25} It happened in the fifth year of king
Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;
{14:26} 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. {14:27} King
Rehoboam made in their place shields of brass, and committed them to
the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the
king's house. {14:28} It was so, that as often as the king went into
the house of the LORD, the guard bore them, and brought them back into
the guard room. {14:29} Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all
that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Judah? {14:30} There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam
continually. {14:31} Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried
with his fathers in the city of David: and his mother's name was
Naamah the Ammonitess. Abijam his son reigned in his place.
{15:1} Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat
began Abijam to reign over Judah. {15:2} He reigned three years in
Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
{15:3} 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. {15:4} Nevertheless for David's sake,
the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after
him, and to establish Jerusalem; {15:5} because David did that which
was right in the eyes of the LORD, and didn't turn aside from anything
that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the
matter of Uriah the Hittite. {15:6} Now there was war between Rehoboam
and Jeroboam all the days of his life. {15:7} The rest of the acts of
Abijam, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah? There was war between Abijam and
Jeroboam. {15:8} Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in
the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his place. {15:9} In the
twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Asa to reign over
Judah. {15:10} He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem: and his
mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. {15:11} Asa did
that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.
{15:12} He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the
idols that his fathers had made. {15:13} Also Maacah his mother he
removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for
an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and burnt it at the brook
Kidron. {15:14} But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless
the heart of Asa was perfect with the LORD all his days. {15:15} He
brought into the house of the LORD the things that his father had
dedicated, and the things that himself had dedicated, silver, and
gold, and vessels. {15:16} There was war between Asa and Baasha king
of Israel all their days. {15:17} Baasha king of Israel went up
against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go
out or come in to Asa king of Judah. {15:18} Then Asa took all the
silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of
the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them
into the hand of his servants; and king Asa sent them to Ben Hadad,
the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived at
Damascus, saying, {15:19} "There is a treaty between me and you,
between my father and your father. Behold, I have sent to you a
present of silver and gold. Go, break your treaty with Baasha king of
Israel, that he may depart from me."
{15:20} Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his
armies against the cities of Israel, and struck Ijon, and Dan, and
Abel Beth Maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
{15:21} It happened, when Baasha heard of it, that he left off
building Ramah, and lived in Tirzah. {15:22} Then king Asa made a
proclamation to all Judah; none was exempted: and they carried away
the stones of Ramah, and its timber, with which Baasha had built; and
king Asa built therewith Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah. {15:23} Now the
rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did,
and the cities which he built, aren't they written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah? But in the time of his old age he
was diseased in his feet. {15:24} Asa slept with his fathers, and was
buried with his fathers in the city of David his father; and
Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place. {15:25} Nadab the son of
Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of
Judah; and he reigned over Israel two years. {15:26} He did that which
was evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his
father, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin. {15:27}
Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against
him; and Baasha struck him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the
Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon.
{15:28} Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha killed
him, and reigned in his place. {15:29} It happened that, as soon as he
was king, he struck all the house of Jeroboam: he didn't leave to
Jeroboam any who breathed, until he had destroyed him; according to
the saying of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the
Shilonite; {15:30} for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and with
which he made Israel to sin, because of his provocation with which he
provoked the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger. {15:31} Now the rest
of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, aren't they written in the
book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? {15:32} There was war
between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. {15:33} In the
third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha the son of Ahijah began to
reign over all Israel in Tirzah for twenty-four years. {15:34} He did
that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of
Jeroboam, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.
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Footnotes:
[1] {14:10} or, male
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