New English Translation

1 Kings 14:12-18 New English Translation (NET)

12. “As for you, get up and go home. When you set foot in the city, the boy will die.

13. All Israel will mourn him and bury him. He is the only one in Jeroboam’s family who will receive a decent burial, for he is the only one in whom the Lord God of Israel found anything good.

14. The Lord will raise up a king over Israel who will cut off Jeroboam’s dynasty. It is ready to happen!

15. The Lord will attack Israel, making it like a reed that sways in the water. He will remove Israel from this good land he gave to their ancestors and scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they angered the Lord by making Asherah poles.

16. He will hand Israel over to their enemies because of the sins which Jeroboam committed and which he made Israel commit.”

17. So Jeroboam’s wife got up and went back to Tirzah. As she crossed the threshold of the house, the boy died.

18. All Israel buried him and mourned for him, just as the Lord had predicted through his servant the prophet Ahijah.