Liber I Regum, 14

1. in tempore illo ægrotavit Abia filius Hieroboam

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

2. dixitque Hieroboam uxori suæ surge et commuta habitum ne cognoscaris quod sis uxor Hieroboam et vade in Silo ubi est Ahia propheta qui locutus est mihi quod regnaturus essem super populum hunc

2. And Jeroboam said to his wife: Arise, and change thy dress, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Silo, where Ahias the prophet is, who told me, that I should reign over this people.

3. tolle quoque in manu tua decem panes et crustula et vas mellis et vade ad illum ipse indicabit tibi quid eventurum sit huic puero

3. Take also with thee ten leaves, and cracknels, and a pot of honey, and go to him: for he will tell thee what shall become of this child.

4. fecit ut dixerat uxor Hieroboam et consurgens abiit in Silo et venit in domum Ahia at ille non poterat videre quia caligaverant oculi ejus præ senectute

4. Jeroboam's wife did as he told her: and rising up went to Silo, and came to the house of Ahias: but he could not see, for his eyes were dim by reason of his age.

5. dixit autem Dominus ad Ahiam ecce uxor Hieroboam ingreditur ut consulat te super filio suo qui ægrotat hæc et hæc loqueris ei cum ergo illa intraret et dissimularet se esse quæ erat

5. And the Lord said to Ahias: Behold the wife of Jeroboam cometh in, to consult thee concerning her son that is sick: thus and thus shalt thou speak to her. So when she was coming in, and made as if she were another woman,

6. audivit Ahias sonitum pedum ejus intrœuntis per ostium et ait ingredere uxor Hieroboam quare aliam esse te simulas ego autem missus sum ad te durus nuntius

6. Ahias heard the sound of her feet coming in at the door, and said: Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam: why dost thou feign thyself to be another? But I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.

7. vade et dic Hieroboam hæc dicit Dominus Deus Israël quia exaltavi te de medio populi et dedi te ducem super populum meum Israël

7. Go, and tell Jeroboam: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel:

8. et scidi regnum domus David et dedi illud tibi et non fuisti sicut servus meus David qui custodivit mandata mea et secutus est me in toto corde suo faciens quod placitum esset in conspectu meo

8. And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to thee, and thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and followed me with all his heart, doing that which was well pleasing in my sight:

9. sed operatus es male super omnes qui fuerunt ante te et fecisti tibi deos alienos et conflatiles ut me ad iracundiam provocares me autem projecisti post corpus tuum

9. But hast done evil above all that were before thee, and hast made thee strange gods and molten gods, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:

10. idcirco ecce ego inducam mala super domum Hieroboam et percutiam de Hieroboam mingentem ad parietem et clausum et novissimum in Israël et mundabo reliquias domus Hieroboam sicut mundari solet fimus usque ad purum

10. Therefore behold I will bring evils upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut of from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up, and the last in Israel: and I will sweep away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as dung is swept away till all be clean.

11. qui mortui fuerint de Hieroboam in civitate comedent eos canes qui autem mortui fuerint in agro vorabunt eos aves cæli quia Dominus locutus est

11. Them that shall die of Jeroboam in the city, the dogs shall eat: and them that shall die in the field, the birds of the air shall devour: for the Lord hath spoken it.

12. tu igitur surge et vade in domum tuam et in ipso introitu pedum tuorum in urbem morietur puer

12. Arise thou therefore, and go to thy house: and when thy feet shall be entering into the city, the child shall die,

13. et planget eum omnis Israël et sepeliet iste enim solus infertur de Hieroboam in sepulchrum quia inventus est super eo sermo bonus ad Dominum Deum Israël in domo Hieroboam

13. And all Israel shall mourn for him, and shall bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall be laid in a sepulchre, be- cause in his regard there is found a good word from the Lord the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

14. constituet autem sibi Dominus regem super Israël qui percutiat domum Hieroboam in hac die et in hoc tempore

14. And the Lord hath appointed himself a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam in this day, and in this time:

15. et percutiet Dominus Israël sicut moveri solet harundo in aqua et evellet Israël de terra bona hac quam dedit patribus eorum et ventilabit eos trans Flumen quia fecerunt sibi lucos ut inritarent Dominum

15. And the Lord God shall strike 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 to themselves groves, to provoke the Lord.

16. et tradet Dominus Israël propter peccata Hieroboam qui peccavit et peccare fecit Israël

16. And the Lord shall give up Israel for the sins of Jeroboam, who hath sinned, and made Israel to sin.

17. surrexit itaque uxor Hieroboam et abiit et venit in Thersa cumque illa ingrederetur limen domus puer mortuus est

17. And the wife of Jeroboam arose, and departed, and came to Thersa: and when she was coming in to the threshold of the house, the child died;

18. et sepelierunt eum et planxit illum omnis Israël juxta sermonem Domini quem locutus est in manu servi sui Ahiæ prophetæ

18. And they buried him. And all Israel mourned for him according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke by the hand of his servant Ahias the prophet.

19. reliqua autem verborum Hieroboam quomodo pugnaverit et quomodo regnaverit ecce scripta sunt in libro verborum dierum regum Israël

19. And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought, and how he reigned, behold they are written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel.

20. dies autem quibus regnavit Hieroboam viginti duo anni sunt et dormivit cum patribus suis regnavitque Nadab filius ejus pro eo

20. And the days that Jeroboam reigned, were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers: and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.

21. porro Roboam filius Salomonis regnavit in Juda quadraginta et unius anni erat Roboam cum regnare cœpisset et decem et septem annis regnavit in Hierusalem civitatem quam elegit Dominus ut poneret nomen suum ibi ex omnibus tribubus Israël nomen autem matris ejus Naama Ammanites

21. And Roboam the son of Solomon reigned in Juda: Roboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem the city, which the Lord chose out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. And his mother's name wee Naama an Ammonitess.

22. et fecit Judas malum coram Domino et inritaverunt eum super omnibus quæ fecerant patres eorum in peccatis suis quæ peccaverant

22. And Juda did evil in the sight of the Lord, and provoked him above all that their fathers had done, in their sins which they committed.

23. ædificaverunt enim et ipsi sibi aras et statuas et lucos super omnem collem excelsum et subter omnem arborem frondosam

23. For they also built them altars, and statues, and groves upon every high hill and under every green tree:

24. sed et effeminati fuerunt in terra feceruntque omnes abominationes gentium quas adtrivit Dominus ante faciem filiorum Israël

24. There were also the effeminate in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the people whom the Lord had destroyed before the face of the children of Israel.

25. in quinto autem anno regni Roboam ascendit Sesac rex Ægypti in Hierusalem

25. And in the fifth year of the reign of Roboam, Sesac king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.

26. et tulit thesauros domus Domini et thesauros regios et universa diripuit scuta quoque aurea quæ fecerat Salomon

26. And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the king's treasures, and carried all off: as also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

27. pro quibus fecit rex Roboam scuta ærea et tradidit ea in manu ducum scutariorum et eorum qui excubabant ante ostium domus regis

27. And Roboam made shields of brass instead of them, and delivered them into the. hand of the captains of the shieldbearers, and of them that kept watch before the gate of the king's house.

28. cumque ingrederetur rex in domum Domini portabant ea qui præeundi habebant officium et postea reportabant ad armamentarium scutariorum

28. And when the king went into the house of the Lord, they whose office it was to go before him, carried them: and afterwards they brought them back to the armoury of the shieldbearers.

29. reliqua autem sermonum Roboam et omnium quæ fecit ecce scripta sunt in libro verborum dierum regum Juda

29. Now the rest of the sets of Roboam, end all that he did, behold they are written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda.

30. fuitque bellum inter Roboam et Hieroboam cunctis diebus

30. And there was war between Roboam and Jeroboam always.

31. dormivit itaque Roboam cum patribus suis et sepultus est cum eis in civitate David nomen autem matris ejus Naama Ammanites et regnavit Abiam filius ejus pro eo

31. And Roboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David: and his mother's name was Naama an Ammonitess: and Abiam his son reigned in his stead.