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But this word from God came to Sh'ma‘yah the man of God:

Just then, as Yarov‘am was standing by the altar to burn incense, a man of God came out of Y'hudah, directed to Beit-El by a word from Adonai .

When the king heard what the man of God said, how he denounced the altar in Beit-El, Yarov‘am took his hand away from the altar and said, "Seize him!" But his hand, the one he had stretched out against him, shriveled up; so that he could not draw it back to himself.

Also the altar was split apart, and the ashes scattered from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of Adonai .

The king then responded to the man of God. "Ask now the favor of Adonai your God," he said, "and pray for me, that my hand will be restored to me." The man of God prayed to Adonai , and the king's hand was restored to him and became as it had been before.

The king then said to the man of God, "Come home with me, and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.

But the man of God replied to the king, "Even if you give me half your household, I will not accept your hospitality; nor will I eat food or drink water in this place.

Now there lived an old prophet in Beit-El; and one of his sons came and told him all the things the man of God had done that day in Beit-El; also they told their father what he had said to the king.

Their father asked them, "Which way did he go?" For his sons had seen what road the man of God from Y'hudah had taken.

he went after the man of God. He found him sitting under a pistachio tree and said to him, "Are you the man of God who came from Y'hudah?" He answered, "I am."

and he cried to the man of God who had come from Y'hudah, "Here is what Adonai says: ‘Since you rebelled against the word of Adonai and didn't obey the mitzvah Adonai your God gave you,

But after he had gone, a lion encountered the man of God on the road and killed him. His corpse lay there in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing next to it.

When the prophet who had brought him back from the road heard about it, he said, "It is the man of God who rebelled against the word of Adonai ; this is why Adonai handed him over to the lion to tear him to pieces and kill him, in keeping with the word Adonai spoke to him."

The prophet picked up the corpse of the man of God, laid it on the donkey and brought it back to the city where he lived, to mourn and bury him.

After burying him he said to his sons, "When I die, put me in the burial cave where the man of God is buried; lay my bones next to his bones.

All Isra'el will mourn him, and they will bury him; he is the only one of Yarov‘am's line who will lie in a grave, because he alone in the house of Yarov‘am has in him an element of good toward Adonai the God of Isra'el.

Moreover, Adonai will raise up for himself a king over Isra'el who at that time will cut off the house of Yarov‘am. And what will God do now?

He committed all the sins his father had committed before him; he was not wholehearted with Adonai his God, as David his forefather had been.

Nevertheless, for David's sake Adonai his God gave him a lamp burning in Yerushalayim by establishing his son after him and making Yerushalayim secure.

it was the punishment for the sins Yarov‘am had committed and through which he had made Isra'el sin, thereby angering Adonai the God of Isra'el.