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When Ahijah heard the sound of her feet coming in the doorway, he said, "Come in, wife of Jeroboam, why do you pretend to be another woman? For I am sent to you with a harsh message.

Go, say to Jeroboam, ‘Thus says the Lord God of Israel, "⁽ⁱ⁾Because I exalted you from among the people and made you leader over My people Israel,

and ^(j)tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you—^(k)yet you have not been like My servant David, who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, ^(l)to do only that which was right in My sight;

you also have done more evil than all who were before you, and ^(m)have gone and made for yourself other gods and ⁽ⁿ⁾molten images to provoke Me to anger, and have ^(o)cast Me behind your back—

therefore behold, I am bringing calamity on the house of Jeroboam, and ^(p)will cut off from Jeroboam ^[c]every male person, ^(q)both bond and free in Israel, and I ^(r)will make a clean sweep of the house of Jeroboam, as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone.

^(s)Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city the dogs will eat. And he who dies in the field the birds of the heavens will eat; for the Lord has spoken it."'

Now you, arise, go to your house. ^(t)When your feet enter the city the child will die.

All Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for ^[d]he alone of Jeroboam's family will come to the grave, because in him ^(u)something good was found toward the Lord God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.

Moreover, ^(v)the Lord will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam this day ^[e]and from now on.

"For the Lord will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and ^(w)He will uproot Israel from ^(x)this good land which He gave to their fathers, and ^(y)will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, ^(z)because they have made their ^[f]Asherim, provoking the Lord to anger.

He will give up Israel ^(aa)on account of the sins of Jeroboam, which he ^[g]committed and with which he made Israel to sin."