1At that time Abiiah the sonne of Ieroboam fell sicke.

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

2And Ieroboam saide vnto his wife, Vp, I pray thee, and disguise thy selfe, that they know not that thou art the wife of Ieroboam, and goe to Shiloh: for there is Ahiiah the Prophet, which tolde mee that I shoulde bee King ouer 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

3And take with thee tenne loaues and craknels, and a bottell of honie, and go to him: hee shall tell thee what shall become of the yong man.

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

4And Ieroboams wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahiiah: but Ahiiah could not see, for his sight was decayed for 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

5Then the Lord saide vnto Ahiiah, Beholde, the wife of Ieroboam commeth to aske a thing of thee for her sonne, for he is sicke: thus and thus shalt thou say vnto her: for when shee commeth in, shee shall feine her selfe to be another.

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

6Therefore when Ahiiah heard the sounde of her feete as shee came in at the doore, hee saide, Come in, thou wife of Ieroboam: why feinest thou thus thy selfe to bee an other? I am sent to thee with heauie tidings.

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

7Goe, tel Ieroboam, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Forasmuch as I haue exalted thee from among the people, and haue made thee prince ouer 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 haue rent the kingdome away from the house of Dauid, and haue giuen it thee, and thou hast not bene as my seruant Dauid, which kept my commandements, and followed mee with all his heart, and did onely that which was right in mine eyes,

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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 euil aboue al that were before thee (for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to prouoke me, and hast cast me behinde thy backe)

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

10Therefore beholde, I will bring euill vpon the house of Ieroboam, and will cut off from Ieroboam him that pisseth against the wall, aswell him that is shut vp, as him that is left in Israel, and will sweepe away the remnant of the house of Ieroboam, as a man sweepeth away doung, till it be all gone.

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

11The dogges shall eate him of Ieroboams stocke that dyeth in the citie, and the foules of the aire shall eate him that dyeth in the fielde: for the Lord hath said it.

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

12Vp therefore and get thee to thine house: for when thy feete enter into the citie, the childe 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 al Israel shall mourne for him, and burie him: for he onely of Ieroboam shall come to the graue, because in him there is found some goodnes towarde the Lord God of Israel in the house of Ieroboam.

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

14Moreouer, the Lord shall stirre him vp a King ouer Israel, which shall destroy the house of Ieroboam in that day: what? yea, euen nowe.

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

15For the Lord shall smite Israel, as when a reede is shaken in the water, and hee shall weede Israel out of his good lad, which he gaue to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the Riuer, because they haue made them groues, prouoking the Lord to anger.

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

16And he shall giue Israel vp, because of the sinnes of Ieroboam, who did sinne, and made Israel to sinne.

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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 Ieroboams wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah, and when shee came to the threshold of the house, the yong man dyed,

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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 lamented him; according to the word of the Lord, which hee spake by the hand of his seruant Ahiiah the Prophet.

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1 Kings 14:13, 1 Kings 14:13

19And the rest of Ieroboams actes, how hee warred, and howe hee reigned, beholde, they are written in the booke of the Chronicles 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 dayes which Ieroboam reigned, were two and twentie yeere: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his sonne reigned in his steade.

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

21Also Rehoboam the sonne of Salomon reigned in Iudah. Rehoboam was one and fourtie yere olde, when he began to reigne, and reigned seuenteene yere in Ierusalem, the citie which the Lord did chuse out of al the tribes of Israel, to put his Name there: and his mothers name was Naamah an Ammonite.

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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 Iudah wrought wickednesse in the sight of the Lord: and they prouoked him more with their sinnes, which they had committed, then all that which their fathers had done.

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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 made them hie places, and images, and groues on euery hie hill, and vnder euery greene tree.

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

24There were also Sodomites in the lande, they did according to all the abominations of the nations, which the Lord had cast out before 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 fift yere of King Rehoboam, Shishak King of Egypt came vp against Ierusale,

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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 tooke the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the Kings house, and tooke away all: also he caried away all the shields of golde which Salomon 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 King Rehoboam made for them brasen shieldes, and committed them vnto ye hands of the chiefe of the garde, which wayted at the doore of the Kings 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, the garde bare them, and brought them againe into the gard chamber.

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2 Chronicles 12:11, 2 Chronicles 12:11

29And the rest of the actes of Rehoboam, and all that hee did, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Iudah?

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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 warre betweene Rehoboam and Ieroboam continually.

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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 Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the citie of Dauid: his mothers name was Naamah an Ammonite. And Abiiam his sonne 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