1At that time Abia, the son of Jeroboam, fell sick.

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1 Kings 13:33, 1 Kings 13:34, Exodus 20:5, 2 Samuel 12:15, 1 Samuel 4:19

2And Jeroboam said to his wife: Arise, and change thy dress, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Silo, where Ahias, the prophet is, who told me that I should reign over this people.

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1 Samuel 28:8, 2 Samuel 14:2, 1 Kings 11:29, 1 Kings 11:38, 1 Samuel 28:8

3Take also with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a pot of honey, and go to him: for he will tell thee what will become of this child.

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1 Samuel 9:7, 1 Samuel 9:8, 1 Samuel 9:7, 1 Samuel 9:8, 2 Kings 4:42

4Jeroboam's wife did as he told her: and rising up, went to Silo, and came to the house of Ahias; but he could not see, for his eyes were dim by reason of his age.

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1 Kings 11:29, 1 Kings 11:29, 1 Samuel 4:15, 1 Samuel 3:2, 1 Samuel 4:15

5And the Lord said to Ahias: Behold the wife of Jeroboam cometh in, to consult thee concerning her son, that is sick: thus and thus shalt thou speak to her. So when she was coming in, and made as if she were another woman,

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2 Kings 4:27, Proverbs 21:30, Amos 3:7, Psalms 139:1, Psalms 139:4

6Ahias heard the sound of her feet, coming in at the door, and said: Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam: why dost thou feign thyself to be another? But I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.

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Hebrews 4:13, Luke 20:20, Luke 20:23, 1 Kings 14:10, 1 Kings 14:11

7Go, and tell Jeroboam: Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: For as much as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel;

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1 Kings 16:2, 1 Kings 16:2, 2 Samuel 12:7, 2 Samuel 12:8, 2 Samuel 12:7

8And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to thee, and thou hast not been as my servant, David, who kept my commandments, and followed me with all his heart, doing that which was well pleasing in my sight:

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1 Kings 15:5, 1 Kings 15:5, 2 Chronicles 28:1, Acts 13:22, Acts 13:36

9But hast done evil above all that were before thee, and hast made thee strange gods, and molten gods, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:

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Ezekiel 23:35, Nehemiah 9:26, Psalms 50:17, Ezekiel 23:35, Nehemiah 9:26

10Therefore, behold I will bring evils upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up, and the last in Israel: and I will sweep away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as dung is swept away till all be clean.

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2 Kings 14:26, Deuteronomy 32:36, 1 Kings 21:21, 2 Kings 14:26, Deuteronomy 32:36

11Them that shall die of Jeroboam in the city, the dogs shall eat: and them that shall die in the field, the birds of the air shall devour: for the Lord hath spoken it.

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1 Kings 16:4, 1 Kings 16:4, Jeremiah 15:3, Revelation 19:17, Revelation 19:18

12Arise thou, therefore, and go to thy house: and when thy feet shall be entering into the city, the child shall die,

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1 Kings 14:16, 1 Kings 14:17, 2 Kings 1:6, 2 Kings 1:16, 1 Kings 14:3

13And all Israel shall mourn for him, and shall bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall be laid in a sepulchre, because in his regard there is found a good word from the Lord, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

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2 Chronicles 19:3, 2 Chronicles 19:3, 2 Chronicles 12:12, 2 Chronicles 12:12, 2 Peter 2:8

14And the Lord hath appointed himself a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam in this day, and in this time:

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1 Kings 15:27, 1 Kings 15:29, 1 Kings 15:27, 1 Kings 15:29, Ecclesiastes 8:11

15And the Lord God shall strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water: and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river: because they have made to themselves groves, to provoke the Lord.

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Joshua 23:15, Joshua 23:16, Psalms 52:5, Joshua 23:15, Joshua 23:16

16And the Lord shall give up Israel for the sins of Jeroboam, who hath sinned, and made Israel to sin.

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1 Kings 16:2, 1 Kings 13:34, 1 Kings 15:34, 1 Kings 15:30, 1 Kings 16:2

17And the wife of Jeroboam arose, and departed, and came to Thersa: and when she was coming in to the threshold of the house, the child died,

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1 Kings 15:33, 1 Kings 15:33, 1 Kings 16:23, 1 Kings 15:21, 1 Kings 16:15

18And they buried him. And all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke by the hand of his servant Ahias, the prophet.

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1 Kings 14:13, 1 Kings 14:13

19And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought, and how he reigned, behold they are written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel.

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2 Chronicles 13:2, 2 Chronicles 13:20, 2 Chronicles 13:2, 2 Chronicles 13:20, 1 Chronicles 27:24

20And the days that Jeroboam reigned, were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers: and Nadab, his son, reigned in his stead.

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Job 14:12, Job 14:12, Psalms 3:5, 1 Kings 11:43, 1 Kings 2:10

21And Roboam, the son of Solomon, reigned in Juda: Roboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord chose out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naama, an Ammonitess.

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2 Chronicles 12:13, 2 Chronicles 12:13, 1 Kings 11:36, 1 Kings 11:36, 1 Kings 14:31

22And Juda did evil in the sight of the Lord, and provoked him above all that their fathers had done, in their sins which they committed.

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1 Corinthians 10:22, 2 Chronicles 12:1, 1 Corinthians 10:22, 2 Chronicles 12:1, Psalms 78:58

23For they also built them altars, and statues, and groves, upon every high hill, and under every green tree:

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Deuteronomy 12:2, Deuteronomy 12:2, Isaiah 57:5, Isaiah 57:5, Ezekiel 16:24

24There were also the effeminate in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the people, whom the Lord had destroyed before the face of the children of Israel.

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Deuteronomy 23:17, Deuteronomy 23:17, 1 Corinthians 6:9, 1 Kings 15:12, 2 Kings 23:7

25And in the fifth year of the reign of Roboam, Sesac, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem.

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1 Kings 11:40, 1 Kings 11:40, 2 Chronicles 12:2, 2 Chronicles 12:4, 2 Chronicles 12:9

26And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the king's treasures, and carried all off: as also the shields of gold which Solomon had made:

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1 Kings 15:18, 1 Kings 15:18, 2 Chronicles 9:15, 2 Chronicles 9:16, 2 Chronicles 9:15

27And Roboam made shields of brass instead of them, and delivered them into the hand of the captains of the shieldbearers, and of them that kept watch before the gate of the king's house.

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1 Samuel 8:11, 1 Samuel 22:17, 1 Samuel 8:11, 1 Samuel 22:17, 1 Kings 18:46

28And when the king went into the house of the Lord, they whose office it was to go before him, carried them: and afterwards they brought them back to the armoury of the shieldbearers.

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2 Chronicles 12:11, 2 Chronicles 12:11

29Now the rest of the acts of Roboam, and all that he did, behold they are written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda.

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1 Kings 11:41, 1 Kings 14:19, 1 Kings 22:45, 2 Chronicles 12:15, 2 Chronicles 12:16

30And there was war between Roboam and Jeroboam always.

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1 Kings 12:24, 1 Kings 12:21, 1 Kings 12:24, 1 Kings 12:21, 1 Kings 15:6

31And Roboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with them, in the city of David: and his mother's name was Naama, an Ammonitess: and Abiam, his son, reigned in his stead.

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2 Chronicles 12:16, 2 Chronicles 12:16, Matthew 1:7, Matthew 1:7, 1 Chronicles 3:10