Ahijah’s Prophecy against Jeroboam
At that time Abijah son of Jeroboam became ill, 1Ki 13:33-341Ki 14:12-131Sa 31:21Sa 4:19-202Sa 12:15Exo 20:5 and Jeroboam said to his wife, “Now get up, disguise yourself so they will not recognize you as my wife, and go to Shiloh. For Ahijah the prophet is there; it was he who spoke about my kingship over this people. 1Ki 11:29-381Sa 28:82Sa 14:22Ch 18:291Ki 14:5-61Ki 22:30Jos 18:1Luk 12:2 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 boy.” 1Sa 9:7-81Ki 13:72Ki 4:422Ki 1:22Ki 5:152Ki 5:52Ki 8:7-9Jhn 11:3
Jeroboam’s wife did as instructed; she arose and went to Shiloh and arrived at Ahijah’s house. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age. 1Ki 11:291Sa 3:21Sa 4:151Ki 14:21Sa 4:3-4Deu 34:7Ecc 12:3Gen 27:1 But the LORD had said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to ask you about her son, for he is ill. You are to say such and such to her, because when she arrives, she will be disguised.” 2Ki 4:272Ki 6:8-12Amo 3:7Pro 21:30Psa 139:1-4Act 10:19-20
So when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet entering the door, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam! Why are you disguised? For I have been sent to you with bad news. 1Ki 13:20-221Ki 14:10-111Ki 14:21Ki 14:51Ki 20:421Ki 21:18-241Ki 22:81Sa 15:16 Go, tell Jeroboam that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I raised you up from among the people and appointed you ruler over My people Israel. 1Ki 16:22Sa 12:7-81Ki 12:241Sa 15:161Sa 2:27-30 I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you. But you were not like My servant David, who kept My commandments and followed Me with all his heart, doing only what was right in My eyes. 1Ki 15:51Ki 11:33-382Ch 28:1Act 13:22Act 13:361Ki 11:30-311Ki 3:142Ch 17:3
You have done more evil than all who came before you. You have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me, and you have flung Me behind your back. Ezk 23:35Neh 9:26Psa 50:171Ki 12:282Ch 11:15Exo 34:171Co 10:22Ezk 8:17 Because of all this, behold, I am bringing disaster on the house of Jeroboam: 1Ki 21:212Ki 14:26Deu 32:362Ki 9:8-91Ki 15:25-301Ki 16:111Sa 2:301Sa 25:22
I will cut off from Jeroboam every male, 1
both slave and free,
in Israel;
I will burn up the house of Jeroboam
as one burns up dung until it is gone!
Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city 1Ki 16:41Ki 21:23-24Jer 15:3Rev 19:17-181Ki 21:19Ezk 39:17-19Isa 66:24
will be eaten by dogs,
and anyone who dies in the field
will be eaten by the birds of the air.’
For the LORD has spoken.
As for you, get up and go home. When your feet enter the city, the child will die. 1Ki 14:16-171Ki 14:32Ki 1:162Ki 1:6Jhn 4:50-52 All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. For this is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will receive a proper burial, 2 because only in him has the LORD, the God of Israel, found any good in the house of Jeroboam. 2Ch 19:32Ch 12:122Pe 2:8-9Ezk 18:14-32Jer 22:10Jer 22:18Job 19:28Num 20:29
Moreover, the LORD will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is the day—yes, even today! 1Ki 15:27-292Pe 2:3Ecc 8:11Ezk 12:22-28Ezk 7:2-7Jas 5:9 For the LORD will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave their fathers, and He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates, 3 because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the LORD to anger. Jos 23:15-16Psa 52:52Ki 15:29Deu 12:3-4Exo 34:13-14Pro 2:221Ki 14:23-241Ki 14:9 So He will give Israel over on account of the sins Jeroboam has committed and has caused Israel to commit.” 1Ki 13:341Ki 15:301Ki 15:341Ki 16:21Ki 12:30Exo 32:21Exo 32:35Hos 5:11-12
Then Jeroboam’s wife got up and departed for Tirzah, and as soon as she stepped over the threshold of the house, the boy died. 1Ki 15:331Ki 15:211Ki 16:151Ki 16:23Sng 6:41Ki 14:12-131Ki 16:6-91Sa 2:20-34 And they buried him, and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servant Ahijah the prophet. 1Ki 14:13
Nadab Succeeds Jeroboam
As for the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he waged war and how he reigned, they are indeed written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. 2Ch 13:2-201Ch 27:241Ki 14:29-301Ki 15:311Ki 16:141Ki 16:201Ki 16:271Ki 16:5
And the length of Jeroboam’s reign was twenty-two years, and he rested with his fathers, and his son Nadab reigned in his place. Job 14:121Ki 11:431Ki 2:10Psa 3:51Ki 15:25-31Psa 4:8
Rehoboam Reigns in Judah
(2 Chronicles 12:13–14)
Meanwhile, Rehoboam son of Solomon reigned in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. 2Ch 12:131Ki 11:361Ki 14:311Ki 11:321Ki 11:431Ki 8:161Ki 8:442Ch 13:7
And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and by the sins they committed they provoked Him to jealous anger more than all their fathers had done. 1Co 10:222Ch 12:1Psa 78:581Ki 14:91Ki 16:302Ch 12:142Ki 17:19Deu 29:28 They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. Deu 12:2Isa 57:52Ki 17:9-10Ezk 16:24-251Ki 14:151Ki 3:22Ch 28:42Ki 21:3-7 There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites. Deu 23:171Co 6:91Ki 15:122Ki 23:71Ki 22:46Gen 19:5Jdg 19:22Rom 1:24-27
Shishak Raids Jerusalem
(2 Chronicles 12:1–12)
In the fifth year of Rehoboam’s reign, Shishak king of Egypt came up and attacked Jerusalem. 1Ki 11:402Ch 12:2-42Ch 12:9 He seized the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the royal palace. He took everything, including all the gold shields that Solomon had made. 1Ki 15:182Ch 9:15-161Ki 10:16-171Ki 7:512Ch 12:9-112Ki 24:13Ecc 2:18-19Pro 23:5
Then King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place and committed them to the care of the captains of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace. 1Sa 22:171Sa 8:111Ki 14:11Ki 14:51Ki 18:462Sa 15:1Lam 4:1-2 And whenever the king entered the house of the LORD, the guards would bear the shields, and later they would return them to the guardroom. 2Ch 12:11
As for the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, along with all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 1Ki 11:411Ki 14:191Ki 15:231Ki 22:452Ch 12:15-16
There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam throughout their days. 1Ki 12:211Ki 12:241Ki 15:6-72Ch 12:15 And Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David; his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. And his son Abijam 4reigned in his place. 2Ch 12:16Mat 1:71Ch 3:101Ki 11:431Ki 14:20-211Ki 15:241Ki 15:31Ki 22:50