1 Kings 14 (NET)

1 Kings 14:1¹At that time Jeroboam’s son Abijah became sick.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 13:33-341 Kgs 14:12-131 Sam 31:21 Sam 4:19-202 Sam 12:15Exod 20:5

1 Kings 14:2²Jeroboam told his wife, “Disguise yourself so that people cannot recognize you are Jeroboam’s wife. Then go to Shiloh; Ahijah the prophet, who told me I would rule over this nation, lives there.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 11:29-381 Sam 28:82 Sam 14:22 Chr 18:291 Kgs 14:5-61 Kgs 22:30Josh 18:1Luke 12:2

1 Kings 14:3³Take ten loaves of bread, some small cakes, and a container of honey and visit him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 9:7-81 Kgs 13:72 Kgs 4:422 Kgs 1:22 Kgs 5:152 Kgs 5:52 Kgs 8:7-9John 11:3John 4:47-48Luke 7:2-3

1 Kings 14:4⁴Jeroboam’s wife did as she was told. She went to Shiloh and visited Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see; he had lost his eyesight in his old age.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 11:291 Sam 3:21 Sam 4:151 Kgs 14:21 Sam 4:3-4Deut 34:7Eccl 12:3Gen 27:1Gen 48:10Jer 7:12-14

1 Kings 14:5⁵But the Lord had told Ahijah, “Look, Jeroboam’s wife is coming to find out from you what will happen to her son, for he is sick. Tell her such and such. When she comes, she will be in a disguise.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 4:272 Kgs 6:8-12Amos 3:7Prov 21:30Ps 139:1-4Acts 10:19-20

1 Kings 14:6⁶When Ahijah heard the sound of her footsteps as she came through the door, he said, “Come on in, wife of Jeroboam! Why are you pretending to be someone else? I have been commissioned to give you bad news.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 13:20-221 Kgs 14:10-111 Kgs 14:21 Kgs 14:51 Kgs 20:421 Kgs 21:18-241 Kgs 22:81 Sam 15:161 Sam 15:261 Sam 28:18

1 Kings 14:7⁷Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘This is what the Lord God of Israel has said: “I raised you up from among the people and made you ruler over my people Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 16:22 Sam 12:7-81 Kgs 12:241 Sam 15:161 Sam 2:27-30

1 Kings 14:8⁸I tore the kingdom away from the Davidic dynasty and gave it to you. But you are not like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me wholeheartedly by doing only what I approve.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 15:51 Kgs 11:33-382 Chr 28:1Acts 13:22Acts 13:361 Kgs 11:30-311 Kgs 3:142 Chr 17:3

1 Kings 14:9⁹You have sinned more than all who came before you. You went and angered me by making other gods, formed out of metal; you have completely disregarded me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 23:35Neh 9:26Ps 50:171 Kgs 12:282 Chr 11:15Exod 34:171 Cor 10:22Ezek 8:17Ezek 8:3Isa 44:9-20

1 Kings 14:10¹⁰So I am ready to bring disaster on the dynasty of Jeroboam. I will cut off every last male belonging to Jeroboam in Israel, including even the weak and incapacitated. I will burn up the dynasty of Jeroboam, just as one burns manure until it is completely consumed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 21:212 Kgs 14:26Deut 32:362 Kgs 9:8-91 Kgs 15:25-301 Kgs 16:111 Sam 2:301 Sam 25:221 Sam 25:342 Kgs 21:13

1 Kings 14:11¹¹Dogs will eat the members of your family who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country.”’ Indeed, the Lord has announced it!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 16:41 Kgs 21:23-24Jer 15:3Rev 19:17-181 Kgs 21:19Ezek 39:17-19Isa 66:24

1 Kings 14:12¹²“As for you, get up and go home. When you set foot in the city, the boy will die.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 14:16-171 Kgs 14:32 Kgs 1:162 Kgs 1:6John 4:50-52

1 Kings 14:13¹³All Israel will mourn him and bury him. He is the only one in Jeroboam’s family who will receive a decent burial, for he is the only one in whom the Lord God of Israel found anything good.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 19:32 Chr 12:122 Pet 2:8-9Ezek 18:14-32Jer 22:10Jer 22:18Job 19:28Num 20:29Phlm 1:6

1 Kings 14:14¹⁴The Lord will raise up a king over Israel who will cut off Jeroboam’s dynasty. It is ready to happen!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 15:27-292 Pet 2:3Eccl 8:11Ezek 12:22-28Ezek 7:2-7Jas 5:9

1 Kings 14:15¹⁵The Lord will attack Israel, making it like a reed that sways in the water. He will remove Israel from this good land he gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they angered the Lord by making Asherah poles.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 23:15-16Ps 52:52 Kgs 15:29Deut 12:3-4Exod 34:13-14Prov 2:221 Kgs 14:23-241 Kgs 14:91 Sam 12:252 Kgs 17:23

1 Kings 14:16¹⁶He will hand Israel over to their enemies because of the sins which Jeroboam committed and which he made Israel commit.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 13:341 Kgs 15:301 Kgs 15:341 Kgs 16:21 Kgs 12:30Exod 32:21Exod 32:35Hos 5:11-12Hos 9:11-12Hos 9:16-17

1 Kings 14:17¹⁷So Jeroboam’s wife got up and went back to Tirzah. As she crossed the threshold of the house, the boy died.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 15:331 Kgs 15:211 Kgs 16:151 Kgs 16:23Song 6:41 Kgs 14:12-131 Kgs 16:6-91 Sam 2:20-341 Sam 4:18-20Josh 12:24

1 Kings 14:18¹⁸All Israel buried him and mourned for him, in keeping with the Lord’ s message that he had spoken through his servant, the prophet Ahijah.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 14:13

1 Kings 14:19¹⁹The rest of the events of Jeroboam’s reign, including the details of his battles and rule, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 13:2-201 Chr 27:241 Kgs 14:29-301 Kgs 15:311 Kgs 16:141 Kgs 16:201 Kgs 16:271 Kgs 16:51 Kgs 22:39Esth 6:1

1 Kings 14:20²⁰Jeroboam ruled for twenty-two years; then he passed away. His son Nadab replaced him as king.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 14:121 Kgs 11:431 Kgs 2:10Ps 3:51 Kgs 15:25-31Ps 4:8

1 Kings 14:21²¹Now Rehoboam son of Solomon ruled in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord chose from all the tribes of Israel to be his home. His mother was an Ammonite woman named Naamah.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 12:131 Kgs 11:361 Kgs 14:311 Kgs 11:321 Kgs 11:431 Kgs 8:161 Kgs 8:442 Chr 13:7Deut 12:21Deut 12:5

1 Kings 14:22²²Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 10:222 Chr 12:1Ps 78:581 Kgs 14:91 Kgs 16:302 Chr 12:142 Kgs 17:19Deut 29:28Deut 32:16-21Deut 4:24

1 Kings 14:23²³They even built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 12:2Isa 57:52 Kgs 17:9-10Ezek 16:24-251 Kgs 14:151 Kgs 3:22 Chr 28:42 Kgs 21:3-7Deut 16:22Ezek 20:28-29

1 Kings 14:24²⁴There were also male cultic prostitutes in the land. They committed the same horrible sins as the nations that the Lord had driven out from before the Israelites.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 23:171 Cor 6:91 Kgs 15:122 Kgs 23:71 Kgs 22:46Gen 19:5Judg 19:22Rom 1:24-27

1 Kings 14:25²⁵In King Rehoboam’s fifth year, King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 11:402 Chr 12:2-42 Chr 12:9

1 Kings 14:26²⁶He took away the treasures of the Lord ’s temple and of the royal palace; he took everything, including all the golden shields that Solomon had made.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 15:182 Chr 9:15-161 Kgs 10:16-171 Kgs 7:512 Chr 12:9-112 Kgs 24:13Eccl 2:18-19Prov 23:5Ps 39:6Ps 89:35-45

1 Kings 14:27²⁷King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned them to the officers of the royal guard who protected the entrance to the royal palace.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 22:171 Sam 8:111 Kgs 14:11 Kgs 14:51 Kgs 18:462 Sam 15:1Lam 4:1-2

1 Kings 14:28²⁸Whenever the king visited the Lord ’s temple, the royal guard carried them and then brought them back to the guardroom.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 12:11

1 Kings 14:29²⁹The rest of the events of Rehoboam’s reign, including his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 11:411 Kgs 14:191 Kgs 15:231 Kgs 22:452 Chr 12:15-16

1 Kings 14:30³⁰Rehoboam and Jeroboam were continually at war with each other.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 12:211 Kgs 12:241 Kgs 15:6-72 Chr 12:15

1 Kings 14:31³¹Rehoboam passed away and was buried with his ancestors in the City of David. His mother was an Ammonite named Naamah. His son Abijah replaced him as king.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 12:16Matt 1:71 Chr 3:101 Kgs 11:431 Kgs 14:20-211 Kgs 15:241 Kgs 15:31 Kgs 22:50