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So Jeroboam’s wife did his bidding; to Silo she made her way, and found Ahias’ house. Ahias had no sight left now, so dim were his eyes grown with old age; (1 Kings 14, 4)
but the Lord made it known to him that Jeroboam’s wife was coming to ask him about her son, that had fallen sick, and told him what words he must use to her. She, as she entered, would have given herself out to be other than she was; (1 Kings 14, 5)
but Ahias, as soon as he heard the fall of her feet on the threshold, cried out, Come in, wife of Jeroboam; why dost thou feign thyself to be another? I am charged with bitter tidings for thee. (1 Kings 14, 6)
Go and give Jeroboam this message from the Lord God of Israel: Was it for this I chose thee out among the common folk, and gave thee command of my people Israel, (1 Kings 14, 7)
And I, in return, mean to bring ruin on all Jeroboam’s race, smiting every man that belongs to it, bondman or free man, throughout all Israel;✻ I mean to sweep away the last remnants of his race, like the dung that must be swept away till all is clean. (1 Kings 14, 10)
Lament and burial he shall have from the people of Israel; in him alone, of all Jeroboam’s race, some loyalty to the God of Israel is found, and he alone, of all Jeroboam’s race, shall be carried to the grave. (1 Kings 14, 13)
This day, even as I speak, the Lord has marked out for the throne of Israel one who shall destroy the race of Jeroboam. (1 Kings 14, 14)
And if the Lord abandons Israel thus, it is for the guilt of Jeroboam, that sinned, and taught Israel to sin. (1 Kings 14, 16)
So Jeroboam’s wife left him, and made her way back to Thersa, where her feet no sooner crossed the threshold than her son died. (1 Kings 14, 17)
What else Jeroboam did, how he fought and how he reigned, is to be found written in the Annals of the kings of Israel. (1 Kings 14, 19)
Meanwhile king Solomon’s son Roboam was reigning in Juda. He was forty-one years old when he came to the throne, and for seventeen years he reigned as king at Jerusalem, the city which the Lord chose out of all the cities of Israel to be the sanctuary of his name. His mother was an Ammonitess called Naama. (1 Kings 14, 21)
In Roboam’s fifth year, Sesac king of Egypt marched on Jerusalem, (1 Kings 14, 25)
