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All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He is the only one of Jeroboam's family who will be [properly] buried. He was the only one in Jeroboam's house in whom the LORD God of Israel found anything good.
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The LORD will appoint a king over Israel. That king will destroy Jeroboam's house. This will happen today. It will happen right now.
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"The LORD will strike Israel like cattails which shake in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land which he gave their ancestors. He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River because they dedicated poles to the goddess Asherah and made the LORD furious.
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So the LORD will desert Israel because of Jeroboam's sins, the sins which he led Israel to commit."
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Jeroboam's wife got up, left, and went to Tirzah. When she walked across the threshold of her home, the boy died.
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All Israel buried him and mourned for him as the LORD had said through his servant, the prophet Ahijah.
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Everything else concerning Jeroboam, his wars, and his reign is written in the official records of the kings of Israel.
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Jeroboam ruled for 22 years. Then he lay down in death with his ancestors. His son Nadab succeeded him as king.
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Rehoboam, son of Solomon, ruled Judah. He was 41 years old when he began to rule. He ruled for 17 years in Jerusalem, the city that the LORD chose from all the tribes of Israel, the city where the LORD put his name. Rehoboam's mother was an Ammonite woman named Naamah.
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The people of Judah did what the LORD considered evil. Their sins made him more angry than anything their ancestors had done.
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They built worship sites for themselves and [put up] large stones and Asherah poles to worship on every high hill and under every large tree.