1 In dieselfde tyd het Ab¡a, die seun van Jerobeam, siek geword.
2 En Jerobeam het vir sy vrou gesê: Maak jou tog gereed en trek ander klere aan, sodat hulle nie kan merk dat jy die vrou van Jerobeam is nie, en gaan na Silo; kyk, daar is die profeet Ah¡a wat van my gesê het dat ek koning oor hierdie volk sou word.
3 En neem met jou saam tien brode en koeke en 'n kruik met heuning, en gaan na hom toe; hy sal jou te kenne gee wat met die seun sal gebeur.
4 En die vrou van Jerobeam het so gedoen -- haar gereedgemaak en na Silo gegaan en in die huis van Ah¡a gekom; en Ah¡a kon nie sien nie, want sy oë was styf vanweë sy ouderdom.
5 Maar die HERE het vir Ah¡a gesê: Kyk, die vrou van Jerobeam kom om jou te raadpleeg oor haar seun, want hy is siek; so en so moet jy vir haar sê. En toe sy inkom, terwyl sy haar as 'n vreemde aanstel,
6 en Ah¡a die geluid van haar voete hoor toe sy by die deur inkom, sê hy: Kom in, vrou van Jerobeam! Waarom stel jy jou so vreemd aan? Aan my is 'n harde boodskap aan jou toevertrou.
7 Gaan sê vir Jerobeam: So spreek die HERE, die God van Israel: Omdat Ek jou onder die volk uit verhef het en jou as 'n vors oor my volk Israel aangestel het
8 en die koningskap van die huis van Dawid afgeskeur en dit aan jou gegee het, maar jy nie soos my kneg Dawid was wat my gebooie gehou en My met sy hele hart nagevolg het om net te doen wat reg is in my oë nie,
9 maar jy meer kwaad gedoen het as al jou voorgangers en vir jou ander gode en gegote beelde gaan maak het om My te terg en My agter jou rug gewerp het --
10 kyk, daarom bring Ek onheil oor die huis van Jerobeam en sal van Jerobeam uitroei al wat manlik is in Israel, sonder uitsondering; en Ek sal die huis van Jerobeam skoon wegvee soos 'n mens drek wegvee totdat daar niks van oor is nie.
11 Die een wat van Jerobeam in die stad sterwe, hom sal die honde eet; en wat in die veld sterwe, sal die voëls van die hemel eet, want die HERE het dit gespreek.
12 Maak jou dan klaar, gaan na jou huis; as jou voete die stad inkom, sal die kind sterwe.
13 En die hele Israel sal hom beklaag en hom begrawe, want hy alleen van Jerobeam sal in 'n graf kom, omdat in hom iets goeds voor die HERE, die God van Israel, te vinde was in die huis van Jerobeam.
14 Maar die HERE sal vir Hom 'n koning oor Israel verwek wat die huis van Jerobeam die dag sal uitroei; ja, wat sê ek? Nou al.
15 En die HERE sal Israel slaan, soos 'n riet in die water heen en weer beweeg, en sal Israel uitruk uit hierdie goeie land wat Hy aan hulle vaders gegee het, en hulle anderkant die Eufraat verstrooi, omdat hulle hul heilige boomstamme gemaak en die HERE geterg het.
16 En Hy sal Israel oorgee vanweë die sondes van Jerobeam wat hy gedoen het en waarmee hy Israel laat sondig het.
17 Toe het die vrou van Jerobeam haar klaargemaak en weggegaan en in Tirsa aangekom. Net toe sy op die drumpel van die huis kom, het die seun gesterwe.
18 En hulle het hom begrawe, en die hele Israel het hom beklaag volgens die woord van die HERE wat Hy gespreek het deur die diens van sy kneg, die profeet Ah¡a.
19 En die verdere geskiedenis van Jerobeam, hoe hy oorlog gevoer en hoe hy geregeer het, kyk, dit is beskrywe in die Kroniekboek van die konings van Israel.
20 En die dae wat Jerobeam geregeer het, was twee en twintig jaar; en hy het ontslaap met sy vaders, en sy seun Nadab het in sy plek koning geword.
21 En Reh beam, die seun van Salomo, was koning in Juda; een en veertig jaar was Reh beam oud toe hy koning geword het, en sewentien jaar het hy geregeer in Jerusalem, die stad wat die HERE verkies het uit al die stamme van Israel om sy Naam daar te vestig. En die naam van sy moeder was Naäma, die Ammonitiese.
22 En Juda het gedoen wat verkeerd was in die oë van die HERE en sy ywer opgewek, meer as al die dade van hulle vaders, deur hul sondes wat hulle gedoen het.
23 En hulle het ook vir hulle hoogtes gebou en klippilare en heilige boomstamme op elke hoë heuwel en onder elke groen boom.
24 En daar was ook skandseuns in die land; hulle het gehandel volgens al die gruwels van die nasies wat die HERE voor die kinders van Israel uit verdrywe het.
25 In die vyfde jaar van koning Reh beam trek Sisak, die koning van Egipte, toe teen Jerusalem op,
26 en hy neem die skatte van die huis van die HERE en die skatte van die huis van die koning weg; ja, hy het alles weggeneem; ook al die goue skilde wat Salomo gemaak het, het hy weggeneem.
27 Daarop maak koning Reh beam in die plek daarvan koperskilde, en hy het dit aan die owerstes van die hardlopers toevertrou wat die deur van die koning se huis bewaak het.
28 So dikwels as die koning in die huis van die HERE ingaan, dra die hardlopers dit en bring dit weer terug in die wagkamer van die hardlopers.
29 En die verdere geskiedenis van Reh beam en alles wat hy gedoen het, is dit nie beskrywe in die Kroniekboek van die konings van Juda nie?
30 En daar was gedurigdeur oorlog tussen Reh beam en Jerobeam.
31 En Reh beam het ontslaap met sy vaders en is begrawe by sy vaders in die stad van Dawid; en die naam van sy moeder was Naäma, die Ammonitiese; en sy seun Ab¡a het in sy plek koning geword.
1 At that time Abijah, the son of Jeroboam, became ill.
2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Now come, put on different clothing so that you may not seem to be the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh; see, Ahijah is there, the prophet who said I would be king over this people.
3 And take with you ten cakes of bread and dry cakes and a pot of honey, and go to him: he will give you word of what is to become of the child.
4 So Jeroboam's wife did so, and got up and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah was unable to see, because he was very old.
5 And the Lord had said to Ahijah, The wife of Jeroboam is coming to get news from you about her son, who is ill; give her such and such an answer; for she will make herself seem to be another woman.
6 Then Ahijah, hearing the sound of her footsteps coming in at the door, said, Come in, O wife of Jeroboam; why do you make yourself seem like another? for I am sent to you with bitter news.
7 Go, say to Jeroboam, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel: Though I took you from among the people, lifting you up to be a ruler over my people Israel,
8 And took the kingdom away by force from the seed of David and gave it to you, you have not been like my servant David, who kept my orders, and was true to me with all his heart, doing only what was right in my eyes.
9 But you have done evil more than any before you, and have made for yourself other gods, and images of metal, moving me to wrath, and turning your back on me.
10 So I will send evil on the line of Jeroboam, cutting off from his family every male child, those who are shut up and those who go free in Israel; the family of Jeroboam will be brushed away like a man brushing away waste till it is all gone.
11 Those of the family of Jeroboam who come to death in the town, will become food for the dogs; and those on whom death comes in the open country, will be food for the birds of the air; for the Lord has said it.
12 Up, then! go back to your house; and in the hour when your feet go into the town, the death of the child will take place.
13 And all Israel will put his body to rest, weeping over him, because he only of the family of Jeroboam will be put into his resting-place in the earth; for of all the family of Jeroboam, in him only has the Lord, the God of Israel, seen some good.
14 And the Lord will put up a king over Israel who will send destruction on the family of Jeroboam in that day;
15 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.
16 And he will give Israel up because of the sins which Jeroboam has done and made Israel do.
17 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.
18 And all Israel put his body to rest, weeping over him, as the Lord had said by his servant Ahijah the prophet.
19 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.
20 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.
21 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.
22 And Judah did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and made him more angry than their fathers had done by their sins.
23 For they made high places and upright stones and wood pillars on every high hill and under every green tree;
24 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.
25 Now in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem;
26 And took away all the stored wealth from the house of the Lord, and from the king's house, and all the gold body-covers which Solomon had made.
27 So in their place King Rehoboam had other body-covers made of brass, and gave them into the care of the captains of the armed men who were stationed at the door of the king's house.
28 And whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, the armed men went with him taking the body-covers, and then took them back to their room.
29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?
30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
31 And Rehoboam went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth with his fathers in the town of David; his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonite woman. And Abijam his son became king in his place.