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And even now the hand of the Lord has come down on Israel, shaking it like a river-grass in the water; and, uprooting Israel from this good land, which he gave to their fathers, he will send them this way and that on the other side of the River; because they have made for themselves images, moving the Lord to wrath.
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And he will give Israel up because of the sins which Jeroboam has done and made Israel do.
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Then Jeroboam's wife got up and went away and came to Tirzah; and when she came to the doorway of the house, death came to the child.
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And all Israel put his body to rest, weeping over him, as the Lord had said by his servant Ahijah the prophet.
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Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he made war and how he became king, are recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel.
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And Jeroboam was king for twenty-two years, and was put to rest with his fathers, and Nadab his son became king in his place.
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And Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, was king in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he was king for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the town which the Lord had made his out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there; his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonite woman.
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And Judah did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and made him more angry than their fathers had done by their sins.
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For they made high places and upright stones and wood pillars on every high hill and under every green tree;
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And more than this, there were those in the land who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, doing the same disgusting crimes as the nations which the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.
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Now in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem;