10. Because of all this, I am about to bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam:I will eliminate all of Jeroboam’s males, both slave and free, in Israel;I will sweep away the house of Jeroboamas one sweeps away dung until it is all gone!
11. Anyone who belongs to Jeroboam and dies in the city,the dogs will eat,and anyone who dies in the field,the birds of the sky will eat, for the Lord has said it! ’
12. “As for you, get up and go to your house. When your feet enter the city, the boy will die.
13. All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He alone out of Jeroboam’s house will be put in the family tomb, because out of the house of Jeroboam the Lord God of Israel found something good only in him.
14. The Lord will raise up for Himself a king over Israel, who will eliminate the house of Jeroboam. This is the day, yes, even today!
15. For the Lord will strike Israel and the people will shake as a reed shakes in water. He will uproot Israel from this good soil that He gave to their ancestors. He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates because they made their Asherah poles, provoking the Lord.
16. He will give up Israel because of Jeroboam’s sins that he committed and caused Israel to commit.”
17. Then Jeroboam’s wife got up and left and went to Tirzah. As she was crossing the threshold of the house, the boy died.
18. He was buried, and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the Lord He had spoken through His servant Ahijah the prophet.