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So Yisra'el rebelled against the house of David to this day.

Thus says the LORD, You shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers the children of Yisra'el: return every man to his house; for this thing is of me. So they listened to the word of the LORD, and returned and went their way, according to the word of the LORD.

Yarov`am ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Yehudah, and he went up to the altar; so did he in Beit-El, sacrificing to the calves that he had made: and he placed in Beit-El the Kohanim of the high places that he had made.

It happened, when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar in Beit-El, that Yarov`am put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. His hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back again to him.

for so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, You shall eat no bread, nor drink water, neither return by the way that you came.

So he went another way, and didn't return by the way that he came to Beit-El.

He said to his sons, Saddle me the donkey. So they saddled him the donkey; and he rode thereon.

So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.

Yarov`am's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Achiyah. Now Achiyah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.

It was so, when Achiyah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, you wife of Yarov`am; why feign you yourself to be another? for I am sent to you with heavy news.

It was so, that as often as the king went into the house of the LORD, the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard-chamber.

But the people who followed `Omri prevailed against the people who followed Tivni the son of Ginat: so Tivni died, and `Omri reigned.

So `Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Shomron; and Ach'av his son reigned in his place.

So he went and did according to the word of the LORD; for he went and lived by the brook Kerit, that is before the Yarden.

So he arose and went to Tzarfat; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks: and he called to her, and said, Please get me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

It happened after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.

for it was so, when Izevel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that `Ovadyah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ach'av went one way by himself, and `Ovadyah went another way by himself.

It will happen, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of the LORD will carry you I don't know where; and so when I come and tell Ach'av, and he can't find you, he will kill me: but I your servant fear the LORD from my youth.

So `Ovadyah went to meet Ach'av, and told him; and Ach'av went to meet Eliyah.