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1 Kings 14 (WEBP)

[1] At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick.
[2] Jeroboam said to his wife, “Please get up and disguise yourself, so that you won’t be recognized as Jeroboam’s wife. Go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who said that I would be king over this people.
[3] Take with you ten loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will become of the child.”
[4] Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose and went to Shiloh, and came to Ahijah’s house. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were set by reason of his age.
[5] Yahweh said to Ahijah, “Behold, Jeroboam’s wife is coming to inquire of you concerning her son, for he is sick. Tell her such and such; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will pretend to be another woman.”
[6] So when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the door, he said, “Come in, Jeroboam’s wife! Why do you pretend to be another? For I am sent to you with heavy news.
[7] Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: “Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you prince over my people Israel,
[8] and tore the kingdom away from David’s house, and gave it to 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,
[9] but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods, molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back,
[10] therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates on a wall, 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.
[11] The dogs will eat whoever belongs to Jeroboam who dies in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat whoever dies in the field, for Yahweh has spoken it.”’
[12] Arise therefore, and go to your house. When your feet enter into the city, the child will die.
[13] All Israel will mourn for him and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam will come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.
[14] Moreover Yahweh will raise up a king for himself over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is the day! What? Even now.
[15] For Yahweh 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 Asherah poles, provoking Yahweh to anger.
[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.”
[17] Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed, and came to Tirzah. As she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.
[18] All Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.
[19] The rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
[20] The days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty two years; then he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.
[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 Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
[22] Judah did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.
[23] For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
[24] There were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove out before the children of Israel.
[25] In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;
[26] and he took away the treasures of Yahweh’s house and the treasures of the king’s house. He even took away all of it, including all the gold shields which Solomon had made.
[27] King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who guarded the door of the king’s house.
[28] It was so, that as often as the king went into Yahweh’s house, the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard room.
[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?
[30] There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
[31] Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. Abijam his son reigned in his place.

1 Kings 14:10 or, male
1 Kings 14:15 That is, the Euphrates.

Scripture quotations are taken from The World English Bible™ of eBible.org, 2020 stable text edition. It is in the public domain.

King James w/Strong’s #s

1 Kings 14 (KJVS)

[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 is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be king 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 is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another 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 be another? for I am sent to thee with heavy 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 yet thou hast 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 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, and him 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: and when 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 some good 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: and when 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 were two 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 was forty 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: and they 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, that Shishak 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 them unto 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, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
[30] And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
[31] And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother’s name was Naamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.

1 Kings 14:3a Heb. in thine hand
1 Kings 14:3b Or, cakes
1 Kings 14:3c Or, bottle
1 Kings 14:4 Heb. stood for hoariness
1 Kings 14:6 Heb. hard
1 Kings 14:20 Heb. lay down
1 Kings 14:23 Or, standing images, or statues
1 Kings 14:27 Heb. runners

Scripture quotations from The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible, using the standardized text of 1769. It is in the public domain.

Greek Bible (LXX/BYZ)

1 Kings 14 (BYZ)

[21] Καὶ () Ροβοαμ () υἱὸς () Σαλωμων ἐβασίλευσεν () ἐπὶ () Ιουδα· υἱὸς () τεσσαράκοντα () καὶ () ἑνὸς () ἐνιαυτῶν () Ροβοαμ () ἐν () τῷ () βασιλεύειν () αὐτὸν () καὶ () δέκα () ἑπτὰ () ἔτη () ἐβασίλευσεν () ἐν () Ιερουσαλημ () τῇ () πόλει, () ἣν () ἐξελέξατο () κύριος () θέσθαι () τὸ () ὄνομα () αὐτοῦ () ἐκεῖ () ἐκ () πασῶν () φυλῶν () τοῦ () Ισραηλ· () καὶ () τὸ () ὄνομα () τῆς () μητρὸς () αὐτοῦ () Νααμα ἡ () Αμμανῖτις.
[22] Καὶ () ἐποίησεν () Ροβοαμ () τὸ () πονηρὸν () ἐνώπιον () κυρίου () καὶ () παρεζήλωσεν () αὐτὸν () ἐν () πᾶσιν, () οἷς () ἐποίησαν () οἱ () πατέρες () αὐτοῦ, () καὶ () ἐν () ταῖς () ἁμαρτίαις () αὐτῶν, () αἷς () ἥμαρτον, ()
[23] καὶ () ᾠκοδόμησαν () ἑαυτοῖς () ὑψηλὰ () καὶ () στήλας καὶ () ἄλση ἐπὶ () πάντα () βουνὸν () ὑψηλὸν () καὶ () ὑποκάτω () παντὸς () ξύλου () συσκίου·
[24] καὶ () σύνδεσμος () ἐγενήθη () ἐν () τῇ () γῇ, () καὶ () ἐποίησαν () ἀπὸ () πάντων () τῶν () βδελυγμάτων () τῶν () ἐθνῶν, () ὧν () ἐξῆρεν () κύριος () ἀπὸ () προσώπου () υἱῶν () Ισραηλ. ()—
[25] καὶ () ἐγένετο () ἐν () τῷ () ἐνιαυτῷ () τῷ () πέμπτῳ () βασιλεύοντος () Ροβοαμ () ἀνέβη () Σουσακιμ βασιλεὺς () Αἰγύπτου () ἐπὶ () Ιερουσαλημ ()
[26] καὶ () ἔλαβεν () πάντας () τοὺς () θησαυροὺς () οἴκου () κυρίου () καὶ () τοὺς () θησαυροὺς () οἴκου () τοῦ () βασιλέως () καὶ () τὰ () δόρατα τὰ () χρυσᾶ, () ἃ () ἔλαβεν () Δαυιδ () ἐκ () χειρὸς () τῶν () παίδων () Αδρααζαρ βασιλέως () Σουβα καὶ () εἰσήνεγκεν () αὐτὰ () εἰς () Ιερουσαλημ, () τὰ () πάντα () ἔλαβεν, () ὅπλα () τὰ () χρυσᾶ. ()
[27] Καὶ () ἐποίησεν () Ροβοαμ () ὁ () βασιλεὺς () ὅπλα () χαλκᾶ () ἀντ’ () αὐτῶν. () Καὶ () ἐπέθεντο () ἐπ’ () αὐτὸν () οἱ () ἡγούμενοι () τῶν () παρατρεχόντων οἱ () φυλάσσοντες () τὸν () πυλῶνα () οἴκου () τοῦ () βασιλέως. ()
[28] Καὶ () ἐγένετο () ὅτε () εἰσεπορεύετο () ὁ () βασιλεὺς () εἰς () οἶκον () κυρίου, () καὶ () ᾖρον () αὐτὰ () οἱ () παρατρέχοντες καὶ () ἀπηρείδοντο αὐτὰ () εἰς () τὸ () θεε τῶν () παρατρεχόντων.—
[29] καὶ () τὰ () λοιπὰ () τῶν () λόγων () Ροβοαμ () καὶ () πάντα, () ἃ () ἐποίησεν, () οὐκ () ἰδοὺ () ταῦτα () γεγραμμένα () ἐν () βιβλίῳ () λόγων () τῶν () ἡμερῶν () τοῖς () βασιλεῦσιν () Ιουδα;
[30] Καὶ () πόλεμος () ἦν () ἀνὰ () μέσον () Ροβοαμ () καὶ () ἀνὰ () μέσον () Ιεροβοαμ πάσας () τὰς () ἡμέρας. ()
[31] Καὶ () ἐκοιμήθη () Ροβοαμ () μετὰ () τῶν () πατέρων () αὐτοῦ () καὶ () θάπτεται () μετὰ () τῶν () πατέρων () αὐτοῦ () ἐν () πόλει () Δαυιδ, () καὶ () ἐβασίλευσεν () Αβιου υἱὸς () αὐτοῦ () ἀντ’ () αὐτοῦ. ()

Old Testament scripture quotations and versification from Septuaginta, edited by Alfred Rahlfs (Stuttgart: Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1935). New Testament quotations are from the Byzantine Text (Guardian Press, LLC, Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform, 2026). Both are in the public domain.