1 Kings 14:7-16
7 Go, say to Jeroboam, ‘Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “aBecause I exalted you from among the people and made you ruler over My people Israel, 8 and atore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you—byet you have not been like My servant David, who kept My commandments and who walked after Me with all his heart, cto do only that which was right in My sight; 9 you also have done more evil than all who were before you, and ahave gone and made for yourself other gods and bmolten images to provoke Me to anger, and have ccast Me behind your back— 10 therefore behold, I am bringing evil on the house of Jeroboam: I awill cut off from Jeroboam every male person, bboth bond and free in Israel, and I cwill make a clean sweep of the house of Jeroboam, as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone. 11 aAnyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city the dogs will eat. And he who dies in the field the birds of the sky will eat; for Yahweh has spoken it.”’ 12 But you, arise, go to your house. aWhen your feet enter the city the child will die. 13 And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he alone of Jeroboam’s family will come to the grave, because in him asomething good was found toward Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam. 14 Moreover, aYahweh will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam this day and from now on.
15 “So Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and aHe will uproot Israel from bthis good land which He gave to their fathers, and cwill scatter them beyond the River, dbecause they have made their Asherim, provoking Yahweh to anger. 16 And He will give Israel over aon account of the sins of Jeroboam, which he sinned and with which he made Israel to sin.”
Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved.
Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc.
lsbible.org