1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. 2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people. 3 And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child. 4 And Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.
5 And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman. 6 And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.
7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel, 8 And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes; 9 But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back: 10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone. 11 Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath spoken it. 12 Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die. 13 And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam. 14 Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now. 15 For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger. 16 And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.
17 And Jeroboam’s wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died; 18 And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet. 19 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. 20 And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah an Ammonitess. 22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done. 23 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. 24 And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
25 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem: 26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king’s house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made. 27 And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king’s house. 28 And it was so, when the king went into the house of the LORD, that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.
29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days. 31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother’s name was Naamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.
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.