12. As for you, leave, and go home! As you step inside the city, the child will die,
13. and all Israel will mourn him and bury him, for he alone of Jeroboam’s line will be laid in the grave, since in him alone of Jeroboam’s house has something pleasing to the Lord, the God of Israel, been found.
14. The Lord will raise up for himself a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam—today, at this very moment!
15. The Lord will strike Israel like a reed tossed about in the water and will pluck out Israel from this good land which he gave their ancestors, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they made asherahs for themselves, provoking the Lord.
16. He will give up Israel because of the sins Jeroboam has committed and caused Israel to commit.”
17. So Jeroboam’s wife left and went back; when she came to Tirzah and crossed the threshold of her house, the child died.
18. He was buried and all Israel mourned him, according to the word of the Lord spoken through his servant Ahijah the prophet.
19. The rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought and how he reigned, these are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
20. The length of Jeroboam’s reign was twenty-two years. He rested with his ancestors, and Nadab his son succeeded him as king.
21. Rehoboam, son of Solomon, became king in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city in which, out of all the tribes of Israel, the Lord chose to set his name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.