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1 Kings 14:1-20 — Ahijah's Prophecy Against Jeroboam

1Kgs.14.1-20

¹At that time, Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick. ²And Jeroboam said to his wife, "Please get up and disguise yourself, so that they will not know that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there; he is the one who spoke concerning me becoming king over this people. ³Take in your hand ten loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy." ⁴And Jeroboam's wife did so. She arose and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age. ⁵And the LORD had said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to inquire of a word from you concerning her son, for he is sick. Thus and thus you shall speak to her. And it will be, when she comes in, that she will be pretending to be another woman.” ⁶And it happened, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in the doorway, he said, "Come in, wife of Jeroboam! Why are you pretending to be another woman? For I am sent to you with a harsh message . ⁷Go, tell Jeroboam, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: "Because I exalted you from among the people and made you ruler over my people Israel, ⁸and tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you; yet you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments and who followed me with all his heart, to do only what was right in my eyes, ⁹but you have done evil more than all who were before you, and you have gone and made for yourself other gods and cast metal images to provoke me to anger, and you have cast me behind your back; ¹⁰therefore, behold, I am bringing disaster upon the house of Jeroboam, and I will cut off from Jeroboam every male , both slave and free in Israel, and I will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, just as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone. ¹¹Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city the dogs will eat, and anyone who dies out in the open the birds of the sky will eat, for the LORD has spoken." ' ¹²As for you, arise, go to your house. When your feet enter the city, the child will die. ¹³And all Israel will mourn for him and bury him, for he alone of Jeroboam will come to a grave, because in him there was found something good toward the LORD, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam. ¹⁴Moreover, the LORD will raise up for himself a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam this day, and even now! ¹⁵And the LORD will strike Israel, just as a reed is shaken in the water, and he will uproot Israel from this good land that he gave to their fathers, and he will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the LORD to anger. ¹⁶And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he committed and which he caused Israel to commit." ¹⁷Then Jeroboam's wife arose and departed, and she came to Tirzah. As she was coming to the threshold of the house, the boy died. ¹⁸And they buried him, and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke through his servant Ahijah the prophet. ¹⁹And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he waged war and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. ²⁰And the time that Jeroboam reigned was twenty-two years; and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.

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4/11/2026

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