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You have done more evil than all who lived before you. You have made other gods for yourself and have made me furious with your gold calves. And since you have turned your back on me,
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I will bring disaster on your dynasty and will destroy every one of your male descendants, slave and free alike, anywhere in Israel. I will burn up your royal dynasty as one burns up trash until it is all gone.
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The members of Jeroboam’s family who die in the city will be eaten by dogs, and those who die in the field will be eaten by vultures. I, the LORD, have spoken.’”
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Then Ahijah said to Jeroboam’s wife, “Go on home, and when you enter the city, the child will die.
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All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He is the only member of your family who will have a proper burial, for this child is the only good thing that the LORD, the God of Israel, sees in the entire family of Jeroboam.
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“In addition, the LORD will raise up a king over Israel who will destroy the family of Jeroboam. This will happen today, even now!
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Then the LORD will shake Israel like a reed whipped about in a stream. He will uproot the people of Israel from this good land that he gave their ancestors and will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, for they have angered the LORD with the Asherah poles they have set up for worship.
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He will abandon Israel because Jeroboam sinned and made Israel sin along with him.”
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So Jeroboam’s wife returned to Tirzah, and the child died just as she walked through the door of her home.
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And all Israel buried him and mourned for him, as the LORD had promised through the prophet Ahijah.
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The rest of the events in Jeroboam’s reign, including all his wars and how he ruled, are recorded in
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Jeroboam reigned in Israel twenty-two years. When Jeroboam died, his son Nadab became the next king.
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Meanwhile, Rehoboam son of Solomon was king 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 among all the tribes of Israel as the place to honor his name. Rehoboam’s mother was Naamah, an Ammonite woman.
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During Rehoboam’s reign, the people of Judah did what was evil in the LORD ’s sight, provoking his anger with their sin, for it was even worse than that of their ancestors.
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For they also built for themselves pagan shrines and set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
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There were even male and female shrine prostitutes throughout the land. The people imitated the detestable practices of the pagan nations the LORD had driven from the land ahead of the Israelites.
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In the fifth year of King Rehoboam’s reign, King Shishak of Egypt came up and attacked Jerusalem.
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He ransacked the treasuries of the LORD ’s Temple and the royal palace; he stole everything, including all the gold shields Solomon had made.
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King Rehoboam later replaced them with bronze shields as substitutes, and he entrusted them to the care of the commanders of the guard who protected the entrance to the royal palace.
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Whenever the king went to the Temple of the LORD, the guards would also take the shields and then return them to the guardroom.
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The rest of the events in Rehoboam’s reign and everything he did are recorded in