I Kings 14 · מלכים א

At that time Aviyya the son of Yorov῾am fell sick.

And Yorov῾am said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Yorov῾am; and get thee to Shilo: behold, there is Aĥiyya the prophet, who told me that I should be king over this people.

And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a bottle of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.

And Yorov῾am’s wife did so, and arose, and went to Shilo, and came to the house of Aĥiyya. But Aĥiyya could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.

And the Lord said to Aĥiyya, Behold, the wife of Yorov῾am comes to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say to her: for it shall be, when she comes in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman.

And when Aĥiyya heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, he said, Come in, thou wife of Yorov῾am; why dost thou feign thyself to be another? For I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.

Go, tell Yorov῾am, thus says the Lord God of Yisra᾽el, Since I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Yisra᾽el

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;

but thou hast done more evil than all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten idols, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:

therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Yorov῾am, and will cut off from Yorov῾am every male person, and him that is shut up and him that is left free in Yisra᾽el, and will take away the remnant of the house of Yorov῾am, as a man takes away dung, till it be all gone.

Him that dies of Yorov῾am in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dies in the field shall the birds of the air eat: for the Lord has spoken it.

Arise thou therefore, get thee to thy own house: and when thy feet enter the city, the child shall die.

And all Yisra᾽el shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Yorov῾am shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing towards the Lord God of Yisra᾽el in the house of Yorov῾am.

Moreover the Lord shall raise him up a king over Yisra᾽el, who shall cut off the house of Yorov῾am: those who are here today, and those who are still to come.

For the Lord shall smite Yisra᾽el as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Yisra᾽el out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their Asherim, provoking the Lord to anger.

And he shall give Yisra᾽el up because of the sins of Yorov῾am, who did sin, and who made Yisra᾽el to sin.

And Yorov῾am’s wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirża: and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;

and they buried him; and all Yisra᾽el mourned for him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke by the hand of his servant Aĥiyya the prophet.

And the rest of the acts of Yorov῾am, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yisra᾽el.

And the days which Yorov῾am reigned were twenty two years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadav his son reigned in his stead.

And Reĥav῾am the son of Shelomo reigned in Yehuda, Reĥav῾am was forty one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Yerushalayim, the city which the Lord did choose out of all the tribes of Yisra᾽el, to put his name there. And his mother’s name was Na῾ama an ῾Ammonite woman.

And Yehuda 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.

For they also built high places for themselves, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every leafy tree.

And there was also prostitution in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out before the children of Yisra᾽el.

And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Reĥav῾am, that Shishaq king of Miżrayim came up against Yerushalayim:

And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king’s house; he took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Shelomo had made.

And king Reĥav῾am made in their stead brass shields, and committed them to the hand of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king’s house.

And it was so, when the king went into the house of the Lord, that the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.

Now the rest of the acts of Reĥav῾am and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Yehuda?

And there was war between Reĥav῾am and Yorov῾am all their days.

And Reĥav῾am slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother’s name was Na῾ama the ῾Ammonite woman. And Aviyyam his son reigned in his stead.