1   At that time Abiiah the sonne of Ieroboam fell sicke.

2   And Ieroboam saide vnto his wife, Vp, I pray thee, ^note and disguise thy selfe, that they know not that thou art the wife of Ieroboam, and goe to Shiloh: for there is Ahiiah the Prophet, which tolde mee ^note that I shoulde bee King ouer this people,

3   And take ^note with ^note thee tenne loaues and ^note craknels, and a bottell of honie, and go to him: hee shall tell thee what shall become of the yong man.

4   And Ieroboams wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahiiah: but Ahiiah could not see, for his ^note sight was decayed for his age.

5   Then the Lord saide vnto Ahiiah, Beholde, the wife of Ieroboam commeth to aske a thing of thee for her sonne, for he is sicke: thus & thus shalt thou say vnto her: for when shee commeth

Ieroboams destruction foreshewed. in, shee shall feine her selfe to be ^note another.

6   Therefore when Ahiiah heard the sounde of her feete as shee came in at the doore, hee saide, Come in, thou ^note wife of Ieroboam: why feinest thou thus thy selfe to bee an other? I am sent to thee with heauie tidings.

7   Goe, tel Ieroboam, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Forasmuch as I haue exalted ^note thee from among the people, and haue made thee prince ouer my people Israel,

8   And haue rent the kingdome away from the house of Dauid, and haue giuen it thee, and thou hast not bene as my seruant Dauid, which kept my commaundements, and followed mee with all his heart, and did onely that which was right in mine eyes,

9   But hast done euil aboue al that were before thee (for thou hast gone & made thee other gods, and ^note molten images, to prouoke me, & hast cast me behinde thy backe)

10   Therefore beholde, I will bring euill vpon the house of Ieroboam, and will cut off from Ieroboam him that ^{note note} pisseth against the wall, aswell him that ^note is shut vp, as him that is left in Israel, and will sweepe away the remnant of the house of Ieroboam, as a man sweepeth away doung, till it be all gone.

11   The dogges shall eate him of Ieroboams stocke that dyeth in the citie, and the foules of the aire shall eate him that dyeth in the fielde: ^note for the Lord hath said it.

12   Vp therefore and get thee to thine house: for when thy feete enter into the citie, the childe shall die.

13   And al Israel shall mourne for him, and burie him: for he onely of Ieroboam shall come to the graue, because in him there is found ^note some goodnes towarde the Lorde God of Israel in the house of Ieroboam.

14   Moreouer, the Lorde shall stirre him vp a King ouer Israel, which shall destroy the house of Ieroboam in that day: ^note what? yea, euen nowe.

15   For the Lorde shall smite Israel, as when a reede is shaken in the water, and hee shall weede Israel out of his good l&abar;d, which he gaue to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the ^note Riuer, because they haue made them groues, prouoking the Lord to anger.

16   And he shall giue Israel vp, because of the sinnes of Ieroboam, who did sinne, and ^note made Israel to sinne.

17   ¶2; And Ieroboams wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah, and when shee came to the threshold of the house, the yong man dyed,

18   And they buried him, and all Israel lamented him; according to the word of the Lord, which hee spake by the hand of his seruant Ahiiah the Prophet.

19   And the rest of Ieroboams actes, how hee warred, and howe hee reigned, beholde, they are written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

20   And the dayes which Ieroboam reigned, were two and twentie yeere: and he ^note slept with his fathers, and Nadab his sonne reigned in his steade.

21   ¶2; Also Rehoboam the sonne of Salomon reigned in Iudah. Rehoboam was one and fourtie yere olde, when he began to reigne, & reigned seuenteene ^note yere in Ierusalem, the citie which the Rehoboam dyeth. Abiiam. Lord did chuse out of al the tribes of Israel, to put his Name there: and his mothers name was Naamah an Ammonite.

22   And Iudah wrought wickednesse in the sight of the Lorde: and they prouoked him more with their sinnes, which they had committed, ^note then all that which their fathers had done.

23   For they also made them hie places, and images, and groues on euery hie hill, and vnder euery greene tree.

24   There were also Sodomites ^note in the lande, they did according to all the abominations of the nations, which the Lorde had cast out before the children of Israel.

25   ¶2; And in the fift yere of King Rehoboam, Shishak King of Egypt came vp against Ierusal&ebar;,

26   And tooke the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the Kings house, and tooke away all: also he caried away all the shields of golde ^note which Salomon had made.

27   And King Rehoboam made for them brasen shieldes, and committed them vnto þe; hands of the chiefe of the garde, which wayted at the doore of the Kings house.

28   And when the King went into the house of the Lorde, the garde bare them, and brought them againe into the gard chamber.

29   And the rest of the actes of Rehoboam, and all that hee did, are they not written in ^note the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Iudah?

30   And there was warre betweene Rehoboam and Ieroboam ^note continually.

31   And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the citie of Dauid: his mothers name was Naamah an ^note Ammonite. And Abiiam his sonne reigned in his stead.

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