14. “The Lord will put a new king over Israel. That king will destroy Jeroboam’s family. This will happen soon.
15. Then the Lord will punish Israel. The people of Israel will be like grass moving in the water. The Lord will pull up Israel from this good land. This is the land he gave their ancestors. But he will scatter Israel beyond the Euphrates River. This will happen because the Lord is angry with the people. They made him angry when they made idols to worship Asherah.
16. Jeroboam sinned, and then he made the people of Israel sin. So the Lord will let the people of Israel be defeated.”
17. Then Jeroboam’s wife traveled back to Tirzah. When she entered her home, the boy died.
18. They buried him. And all Israel had a time of sadness for him. This happened as the Lord said it would. The Lord had said these things through his servant, the prophet Ahijah.
19. Everything else Jeroboam did is written down. He fought wars and continued to rule the people. It is all written in the book of the history of the kings of Israel.
20. Jeroboam ruled as king for 22 years. Then he died, and his son Nadab became king in his place.
21. Solomon’s son Rehoboam was 41 years old when he became king of Judah. His mother was Naamah from the land of Ammon. Rehoboam ruled in Jerusalem for 17 years. (The Lord had chosen that city from all the land of Israel. He chose to be worshiped there.)