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So he went back with him and did eat food and drink water in his house.

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.

To his sons he said, "Saddle the donkey for me," and they saddled it.

He went and found his corpse lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing next to the corpse; the lion had neither eaten the corpse nor attacked the donkey.

He laid the corpse in his own burial cave, and they mourned him — "Oh! My brother!"

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.

After this, Yarov‘am did not turn back from his evil way but continued appointing cohanim for the high places from among all the people; he consecrated anyone who wanted to be a cohen of the high places.

Yarov‘am said to his wife, "Please come, and disguise yourself, so that you won't be recognized as Yarov‘am's wife, and go to Shiloh. Achiyah the prophet is there, the one who said that I would be king over these people.

Yarov‘am's wife did this; she set out, went to Shiloh and arrived at the house of Achiyah. Now Achiyah could not see, because his eyes were dim with age.

tore the kingdom away from the dynasty of David and gave it to you. In spite of this, you have not been like my servant David, who obeyed my mitzvot and followed me with all his heart, so that he could do only what I regarded as right.

All Isra'el buried him and mourned him, in keeping with the word of Adonai spoken through his servant Achiyah the prophet.

Yarov‘am's reign lasted twenty-two years; then he slept with his ancestors, and Nadav his son became king in his place.

Rechav‘am the son of Shlomo was reigning in Y'hudah. Rechav‘am was forty-one years old when he began to rule; and he ruled seventeen years in Yerushalayim, the city Adonai had chosen from all the tribes of Isra'el to bear his name; his mother's name was Na‘amah the ‘Amonit.

Other activities of Rechav‘am and all his accomplishments are recorded in the Annals of the Kings of Y'hudah.

Rechav‘am slept with his ancestors and was buried with his ancestors in the City of David; his mother's name was Na‘amah the ‘Amonit. Then Aviyam his son became king in his place.

It was in the eighteenth year of King Yarov‘am the son of N'vat that Aviyam began his reign over Y'hudah.

He ruled three years in Yerushalayim; his mother's name was Ma‘akhah the daughter of Avishalom.

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.

Other activities of Aviyam and all his accomplishments are recorded in the Annals of the Kings of Y'hudah. But there was war between Aviyam and Yarov‘am.