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Now the LORD had said to Ahijah, "Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to inquire of you concerning her son, for he is sick. You shall saythus and thus to her, for it will be when she arrives that she will pretend to be anotherwoman."
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When Ahijahheard the sound of her feetcoming in the doorway, he said, "Come in, wife of Jeroboam, why do you pretend to be anotherwoman? For I am sent to you with a harsh message.
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and tore the kingdomaway from the house of David and gave it to you-yet you have not been like My servantDavid, whokept My commandments and whofollowed* Me with all his heart, to doonly that which was right in My sight;
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you also have donemoreevilthanallwho were before you, and have gone and made for yourself othergods and moltenimages to provoke Me to anger, and have cast Me behind your back -
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thereforebehold, I am bringingcalamity on the house of Jeroboam, and will cutoff from Jeroboameverymale* person, both bond and free in Israel, and I will make a cleansweep of the house of Jeroboam, as one sweepsawaydunguntil it is allgone.
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"Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city the dogs will eat. And he who dies in the field the birds of the heavens will eat; for the LORD has spoken it."'
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"AllIsrael shall mourn for him and bury him, for he alone of Jeroboam's family will come to the grave, because in him somethinggood was foundtoward the LORDGod of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
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"For the LORD will strikeIsrael, as a reed is shaken in the water; and He will uprootIsrael from thisgoodlandwhich He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond* the Euphrates River, because* they have made their Asherim, provoking the LORD to anger.