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therefore, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam. I will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both bond and free in Israel, and will consume the house of Jeroboam, just as one burns up dung until it is all gone.
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Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city, the dogs shall eat; and anyone who dies in the open country, the birds of the air shall eat; for the Lord has spoken.'
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Therefore set out, go to your house. When your feet enter the city, the child shall die.
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All Israel shall mourn for him and bury him; for he alone of Jeroboam's family shall come to the grave, because in him there is found something pleasing to the Lord, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.
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Moreover the Lord will raise up for himself a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam today, even right now!
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"The Lord will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; he will root up Israel out of this good land that he gave to their ancestors, and scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their sacred poles, provoking the Lord to anger.
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He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he sinned and which he caused Israel to commit."
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Then Jeroboam's wife got up and went away, and she came to Tirzah. As she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.
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All Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke by his servant the prophet Ahijah.
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Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred and how he reigned, are written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel.
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The time that Jeroboam reigned was twenty-two years; then he slept with his ancestors, and his son Nadab succeeded him.
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Now Rehoboam 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 that the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite.
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Judah did what was evil in the sight of the Lord; they provoked him to jealousy with their sins that they committed, more than all that their ancestors had done.
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For they also built for themselves high places, pillars, and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree;
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there were also male temple prostitutes in the land. They committed all the abominations of the nations that the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
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In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, King Shishak of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;
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he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king's house; he took everything. He also took away all the shields of gold that Solomon had made;
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so King Rehoboam made shields of bronze instead, and committed them to the hands of the officers of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house.
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As often as the king went into the house of the Lord, the guard carried them and brought them back to the guardroom.
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Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Judah?
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There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.