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Then the king said to the prophet, "Come home with me and have something to eat. I will reward you for what you have done."

and he told them to saddle his donkey for him. They did so, and he rode off

After they had finished eating, the old prophet saddled the donkey for the prophet from Judah,

Then he said to his sons, "Saddle my donkey for me." They did so,

But when Ahijah heard her coming in the door, he said, "Come in. I know you are Jeroboam's wife. Why are you pretending to be someone else? I have bad news for you.

All the people of Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He will be the only member of Jeroboam's family who will be properly buried, because he is the only one with whom the Lord , the God of Israel, is pleased.

The people of Israel mourned for him and buried him, as the Lord had said through his servant, the prophet Ahijah.

Jeroboam ruled as king for twenty-two years. He died and was buried, and his son Nadab succeeded him as king.

They built places of worship for false gods and put up stone pillars and symbols of Asherah to worship on the hills and under shady trees.

To replace them, King Rehoboam made bronze shields and entrusted them to the officers responsible for guarding the palace gates.

But for David's sake the Lord his God gave Abijah a son to rule after him in Jerusalem and to keep Jerusalem secure.

"Let us be allies, as our fathers were. This silver and gold is a present for you. Now break your alliance with King Baasha of Israel, so that he will have to pull his troops out of my territory."

In the second year of the reign of King Asa of Judah, King Jeroboam's son Nadab became king of Israel, and he ruled for two years.

In the third year of the reign of King Asa of Judah, Baasha son of Ahijah became king of all Israel, and he ruled in Tirzah for twenty-four years.

The Lord spoke to the prophet Jehu son of Hanani and gave him this message for Baasha:

In the twenty-sixth year of the reign of King Asa of Judah, Elah son of Baasha became king of Israel, and he ruled in Tirzah for two years.

In the twenty-seventh year of the reign of King Asa of Judah, Zimri ruled in Tirzah over Israel for seven days. The Israelite troops were besieging the city of Gibbethon in Philistia,

So in the thirty-first year of the reign of King Asa of Judah, Omri became king of Israel, and he ruled for twelve years. The first six years he ruled in Tirzah,

and then he bought the hill of Samaria for six thousand pieces of silver from a man named Shemer. Omri fortified the hill, built a town there, and named it Samaria, after Shemer, the former owner of the hill.

In the thirty-eighth year of the reign of King Asa of Judah, Ahab son of Omri became king of Israel, and he ruled in Samaria for twenty-two years.