14. Soon, the Lord will put a new king over Israel who will destroy Jeroboam’s family.
15. Then the Lord will punish Israel. The Israelites will be so full of fear that they will shake like tall grass in the water. He will pull Israel up from this good land that he gave their ancestors. He will scatter them to the other side of the Euphrates River. The Lord will do this because the people made him angry when they built sacred poles.
16. He will let the Israelites be defeated because Jeroboam sinned, and then he made the Israelites sin.”
17. Jeroboam’s wife went back to Tirzah. As soon as she stepped into the house, the boy died.
18. They buried him and all the people of Israel cried for him. This happened just as the Lord said it would through his servant, the prophet Ahijah.
19. The rest of what King Jeroboam did is written in the book, The History of the Kings of Israel. It includes the wars he fought and the way he ruled.
20. Jeroboam ruled as king for 22 years. Then he died and was buried with his ancestors. His son Nadab became the new king after him.
21. Solomon’s son, Rehoboam, was 41 years old when he became king of Judah. Rehoboam ruled 17 years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord chose for his own. He chose this city from all the other tribes of Israel. Rehoboam’s mother was Naamah. She was an Ammonite.
22. The people of Judah did things that the Lord considered evil. They made him angry with all their sins—more than any of their ancestors had done.