Jeroboam said to his wife, “Go and disguise yourself, so that you will not be recognized as Jeroboam’s wife, and go to Shiloh. The prophet Ahijah lives there, the one who predicted that I would be king over this people.
Jeroboam’s wife did so; she left and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes had become sightless with age;
but GOD had said to Ahijah, “Jeroboam’s wife is coming to inquire of you concerning her son, who is sick. Speak to her thus and thus. When she arrives, she will be in disguise.”
Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came through the door, and he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why are you disguised? I have a harsh message for you.
I tore away the kingdom from the House of David and gave it to you. But you have not been like My servant David, who kept My commandments and followed Me with all his heart, doing only what was right in My sight.
You have acted worse than all those who preceded you; you have gone and made for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke My anger; and Me you have cast behind your back.
Therefore I will bring disaster upon the House of Jeroboam and will cut off from Jeroboam every male, bond and free,abond and free Meaning of Heb. uncertain; possibly “kinsman and friend,” cf. 16.11. in Israel. I will sweep away the House of Jeroboam utterly, as dung is swept away.
Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the town shall be devoured by dogs; and anyone who dies in the open country shall be eaten by the birds of the air; for GOD has spoken.
Word-by-Word Analysis
המת
445
לירבעם
352
בעיר
282
יאכלו
67
הכלבים
107
והמת
451
בשדה
311
יאכלו
67
עוף
156
השמים
395
כי
30
יהוה
26
דבר
206
I Kings 14:12
Gematria: 2143
ואתקומילכילביתךבבאהרגליךהעירהומתהילד
As for you, go back home; as soon as you set foot in the town, the child will die.
And all Israel shall lament over him and bury him; he alone of Jeroboam’s family shall be brought to burial, for in him alone of the House of Jeroboam has some devotion been found to the ETERNAL, the God of Israel.
Moreover, GOD will raise up a king over Israel who will destroy the House of Jeroboam, this day and even now.bthis day and even now Meaning of Heb. uncertain.
“GOD will strike Israel until it sways like a reed in water—and uproot Israel from this good land that was given to their ancestors, and will scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have provoked GOD by the sacred postscsacred posts Used in worship of the goddess Asherah. that they have made for themselves.
Word-by-Word Analysis
והכה
36
יהוה
26
אתישראל
942
כאשר
521
ינוד
70
הקנה
160
במים
92
ונתש
756
אתישראל
942
מעל
140
האדמה
55
הטובה
27
הזאת
413
אשר
501
נתן
500
לאבותיהם
494
וזרם
253
מעבר
312
לנהר
285
יען
130
אשר
501
עשו
376
אתאשריהם
957
מכעיסים
250
אתיהוה
427
I Kings 14:16
Gematria: 4220
ויתןאתישראלבגללחטאותירבעםאשרחטאואשרהחטיאאתישראל
Israel will be forsaken because of the sins that Jeroboam committed and led Israel to commit.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויתן
466
אתישראל
942
בגלל
65
חטאות
424
ירבעם
322
אשר
501
חטא
18
ואשר
507
החטיא
33
אתישראל
942
I Kings 14:17
Gematria: 4883
ותקםאשתירבעםותלךותבאתרצתההיאבאהבסףהביתוהנערמת
Jeroboam’s wife got up and left, and she went to Tirzah. As soon as she stepped over the threshold of her house, the child died.
Meanwhile, Rehoboam son of Solomon had become king in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem—the city GOD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to establish God’s name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
there were also consecrated workerseconsecrated workers Or “retainers”; meaning of Heb. qadesh uncertain. in the land. [Judah] imitated all the abhorrent practices of the nations that GOD had dispossessed before the Israelites.
and carried off the treasures of the House of GOD and the treasures of the royal palace. He carried off everything; he even carried off all the golden shields that Solomon had made.
King Rehoboam had bronze shields made instead, and he entrusted them to the officers of the guardfguard Lit. “runners.” who guarded the entrance to the royal palace.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויעש
386
המלך
95
רחבעם
320
תחתם
848
מגני
103
נחשת
758
והפקיד
205
עליד
114
שרי
510
הרצים
345
השמרים
595
פתח
488
בית
412
המלך
95
I Kings 14:28
Gematria: 2469
ויהימדיבאהמלךביתיהוהישאוםהרציםוהשיבוםאלתאהרצים
Whenever the king went into the House of GOD, the guards would carry them and then bring them back to the armory of the guards.
Rehoboam rested with his ancestors and was buried with his ancestors in the City of David; his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. His son Abijam succeeded him as king.