1At that time Abijah, the son of Jeroboam, became ill.2And Jeroboam said to his wife, "Arise, please, and change yourself, and they will not know that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and you went to him. Behold, there Ahijah the prophet—he spoke concerning me to be king over this people."3Take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy.4So Jeroboam's wife did so. She arose, went to Shiloh, and came to Ahijah's house. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim from old age.5And the LORD said to Ahijah, "Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to seek a word from you concerning her son, for he is sick. In this way and this you shall speak to her." And it was, when she came, that she was disguising herself as a foreigner.6When Ahijah heard the sound of her footsteps as she came in the doorway, he said, "Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why this disguise as a stranger? I have hard words for you."7Go, say to Jeroboam, Thus says the LORD God of Israel: Because I raised you from the midst of the people and I gave you as ruler over my people Israel,8And I will tear the kingdom from the house of David and give it to you—you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments and who walked after me with all his heart, to do only the upright in my eyes.9And you did evil to do more than all who were before you, and you went and made for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke me to anger, and me you have thrown behind your back.10Therefore behold, I am bringing calamity against the house of Jeroboam, and I will cut off for Jeroboam the one urinating against the wall, restrained and abandoned in Israel, and I will purge after the house of Jeroboam as one purges the dung until it is finished.11The one who dies for Jeroboam in the city the dogs will eat, and the one who dies in the field the birds of the heavens will eat, for the LORD has spoken.12And you, arise, go to your house. When your feet come to the city, the child will die.13And all Israel will mourn for him, and they will bury him, for this one alone of Jeroboam's will come to the burial site because there was found in him a good word toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.14And the LORD will raise up for him a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam—this on this day. And what even now?15And the LORD will strike Israel as a reed sways in the water, and he will uproot Israel from upon this good ground that he gave to their fathers, and he will scatter them beyond the River, because they made their Asherah poles, provoking the LORD.16And he gave Israel on account of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned and which he caused Israel to sin.17And the wife of Jeroboam arose and went and came to Tirzah. She was coming to the threshold of the house, and the boy died.18And all Israel buried him and mourned for him according to the word of the LORD which he spoke by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.19And the rest of the words of Jeroboam, which he fought and which he reigned, they are written in the Book of the Words of the Days for the kings of Israel.20And the days that Jeroboam king of Israel reigned were twenty-two years, and he lay down with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.