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1 Kings 14:1-20, 15:25-16:34

Death of Jeroboam's son. (1Kgs.14.1-18)

14¹At that time Abijah, Jeroboam's son, fell sick, ²and Jeroboam said to his wife, 'Come, please disguise yourself so that no one will recognise you as Jeroboam's wife, and go to Shiloh; the prophet Ahijah is there, the man who said I was to be king of this people. ³Go to him, and take ten loaves and some savoury food and a jar of honey; he will tell you what will happen to the child.' ⁴Jeroboam's wife did this: she set out, went to Shiloh and came to Ahijah's house. ⁵Now Ahijah could not see, his eyes were fixed with age, but Yahweh had told him, 'Jeroboam's wife is now on her way to ask you for a prophecy about her son, as he is sick. You will tell her such and such. When she comes, she will pretend to be some other woman.' ⁶So when Ahijah heard her footsteps at the door, he called, 'Come in, wife of Jeroboam; why pretend to be someone else? I have bad news for you. ⁷Go and tell Jeroboam, 'Yahweh, God of Israel, says this: I raised you from the people and made you leader of my people Israel; ⁸I tore the kingdom from the House of David and gave it to you. But you have not been like my servant David who kept my commandments and followed me with all his heart, doing only what I regard as right; ⁹you have done more evil than all your predecessors, you have gone and made yourself other gods, idols of cast metal, provoking my anger, and you have turned your back on me. ¹⁰For this I shall bring disaster on the House of Jeroboam, I shall wipe out every manjack of the family of Jeroboam, fettered or free in Israel, I shall sweep away the House of Jeroboam as a man sweeps dung away till none is left. ¹¹Those of Jeroboam's family who die in the city, the dogs will eat; and those who die in the open country, the birds of the air will eat, for Yahweh has spoken.' ¹²Now get up and go home; at the moment your feet enter the town, the child will die. ¹³All Israel will mourn for him, and bury him; and he alone of Jeroboam's family will have a proper burial, for in him alone of the House of Jeroboam can Yahweh, God of Israel, find anything good. ¹⁴Yahweh will set a king over Israel, who will put an end to the House of Jeroboam. ¹⁵Yahweh will make Israel shake, till it quivers like a reed in the water; he will uproot Israel from this prosperous land which he gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the River for provoking Yahweh to anger by making their sacred poles. ¹⁶He will abandon Israel for the sins which Jeroboam has committed and made Israel commit.' ¹⁷Jeroboam's wife rose and left. She arrived at Tirzah, and when she crossed the threshold of the palace, the child was already dead. ¹⁸They buried him, and all Israel mourned for him, just as Yahweh had foretold through his servant Ahijah the prophet.

Death of Jeroboam. His son NADAB king of Israel. (1Kgs.14.19-20)

¹⁹The rest of the history of Jeroboam, what wars he waged, how he governed, this is recorded in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel. ²⁰Jeroboam's reign lasted twenty-two years. Then he fell asleep with his ancestors; his son Nadab succeeded him.

NADAB king of Israel. (914 BCE) (1Kgs.15.25-32)

²⁵Nadab son of Jeroboam became king of Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel for two years. ²⁶He did what is displeasing to Yahweh; he copied his father's example and the sin into which he had led Israel. ²⁷Baasha son of Ahijah, of the House of Issachar, plotted against him and murdered him at Gibbethon, a Philistine town which Nadab and all Israel were besieging. ²⁸Baasha killed Nadab and succeeded him in the third year of Asa king of Judah. ²⁹No sooner was he king than he butchered the entire House of Jeroboam, not sparing a soul, and put an end to it, just as Yahweh had foretold through his servant Ahijah of Shiloh, ³⁰because of the sins which he had committed and into which he had led Israel, and because he had 'provoked the anger of Yahweh, God of Israel. ³¹The rest of the history of Nadab, his entire career, is this not recorded in ³²the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel?

BAASHA king of Israel. (912 BCE) (1Kgs.15.33-16.7)

³³In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha son of Ahijah became king of Israel at Tirzah for twenty-four years. ³⁴He did what is displeasing to Yahweh; he copied the example of Jeroboam and the sin into which he had led Israel. 16¹The word of Yahweh came to Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha: ²'I raised you from the dust and made you leader of my people Israel, but you have followed Jeroboam's example and led my people Israel into sins which provoke my anger. ³Now I shall sweep away Baasha and his House; I shall make your House like the House of Jeroboam son of Nebat. ⁴Those of Baasha's family who die in the city, the dogs will eat; and those who die in the open country, the birds of the air will eat.' ⁵The rest of the history of Baasha, his career, his valour, is this not recorded in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel? ⁶When Baasha fell asleep with his ancestors, he was buried in Tirzah; his son Elah succeeded him. ⁷Furthermore, the word of Yahweh was delivered through the prophet Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha and his House, first because of the many ways in which he had displeased Yahweh, provoking him to anger by his actions and becoming like the House of Jeroboam; secondly because he had destroyed that House.

ELAH king of Israel. (888 BCE) (1Kgs.16.8-14)

⁸In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah son of Baasha became king of Israel at Tirzah, for two years. ⁹Zimri, one of his officers, captain of half his chariotry, plotted against him. While he was at Tirzah, drinking himself senseless in the house of Arza who was master of the palace in Tirzah, ¹⁰Zimri came in, struck him down and killed him in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and succeeded him. ¹¹On his accession, as soon as he was seated on the throne, he butchered Baasha's entire family, not leaving him one manjack of them alive, neither relative nor friend. ¹²Zimri destroyed the whole House of Baasha, in accordance with the word which Yahweh had spoken against Baasha through the prophet Jehu, ¹³because of all the sins of Baasha and his son Elah into which they had led Israel, provoking the anger of Yahweh, God of Israel, with their worthless idols. ¹⁴The history of Elah, his entire career, is this not recorded in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel?

ZIMRI king of Israel. (886 BCE) (1Kgs.16.15-20)

¹⁵In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri became king for seven days, at Tirzah. The people were then encamped in front of Gibbethon, a Philistine town. ¹⁶When news reached the camp of how Zimri had not only plotted against but actually killed the king, all Israel proclaimed the army commander Omri as king of Israel in the camp that very day. ¹⁷Omri, and all Israel with him, raised the siege of Gibbethon and laid siege to Tirzah. ¹⁸When Zimri saw that the town had been captured, he went into the keep of the royal palace, burned the palace over his own head, and died. ¹⁹This was because of the sin which he had committed in doing what is displeasing to Yahweh, by copying the example of Jeroboam and the sin into which he had led Israel. ²⁰The rest of the history of Zimri and of his conspiracy, is this not recorded in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel?

OMRI king of Israel. (886 BCE) (1Kgs.16.21-22)

²¹The people of Israel then split into two factions: one half following Tibni son of Ginath to make him king, the other half following Omri. ²²But the faction of Omri proved stronger than that of Tibni son of Ginath; thus Tibni lost his life and Omri became king.

(1Kgs.16.21-28)

²³In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri became king of Israel and reigned for twelve years. He reigned for six years at Tirzah. ²⁴Then for two talents of silver he bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer and on it built a town which he named Samaria after Shemer who had owned the hill. ²⁵Omri did what is displeasing to Yahweh, and was worse than all his predecessors. ²⁶In every way he copied the example of Jeroboam son of Nebat and the sins into which he had led Israel, provoking the anger of Yahweh, God of Israel, with their worthless idols. ²⁷The rest of the history of Omri, his career, his valour, is this not recorded in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel? ²⁸When Omri fell asleep with his ancestors, he was buried in Samaria; his son Ahab succeeded him.

AHAB king of Israel. (874 BCE) (1Kgs.16.29-34)

²⁹Ahab son of Omri became king of Israel in the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel for twenty-two years in Samaria. ³⁰Ahab son of Omri did what is displeasing to Yahweh, and was worse than all his predecessors. ³¹The least that he did was to follow the sinful example of Jeroboam son of Nebat: he married Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians, and then proceeded to serve Baal and worship him. ³²He erected an altar to him in the temple of Baal which he built in Samaria. ³³Ahab also put up a sacred pole and committed other crimes as well, provoking the anger of Yahweh, God of Israel, more than all the kings of Israel his predecessors. ³⁴It was in his time that Hiel of Bethel rebuilt Jericho. Laying its foundations cost him his eldest son Abiram and erecting its gates cost him his youngest son Segub, just as Yahweh had foretold through Joshua son of Nun.