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1 Kings 14,15
Disaster on the House of Jeroboam
1 At that time Abijah son of Jeroboam became sick.(a) 2 Jeroboam said to his wife, "Go disguise yourself,(b) so they won't know that you're Jeroboam's wife, and go to Shiloh.(c) Ahijah the prophet is there; it was he who told about me becoming king over this people.(d) 3 Take with you 10 loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey,(e) and go to him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy."
4 Jeroboam's wife did that: she went to Shiloh and arrived at Ahijah's house. Ahijah could not see; his gaze was fixed[a] due to his age.(f) 5 But the Lord had said to Ahijah, "Jeroboam's wife is coming soon to ask you about her son, for he is sick. You are to say such and such to her. When she arrives, she will be disguised."(g)
6 When Ahijah heard the sound of her feet entering the door, he said, "Come in, wife of Jeroboam! Why are you disguised?(h) I have bad news for you. 7 Go tell Jeroboam, ‘This is what the Lord God of Israel says: I raised you up from among the people, appointed you ruler over My people Israel, 8 tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to you.(i) But you were not like My servant David, who kept My commands and followed Me with all of his heart, doing only what is right in My eyes. 9 You behaved more wickedly than all who were before you.(j) In order to provoke Me, you have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and cast images,(k) but you have flung Me behind your back.(l) 10 Because of all this, I am about to bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam:
I will eliminate all of Jeroboam's males,[b]
both slave and free,[c] in Israel;
I will sweep away the house of Jeroboam
as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone!(m)
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,(n)
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.(o) 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.(p) 14 The Lord will raise up for Himself a king over Israel, who will eliminate the house of Jeroboam.(q) This is the day, yes,[d] 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.(r) He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates(s) because they made their Asherah poles, provoking the Lord .(t) 16 He will give up Israel because of Jeroboam's sins that he committed and caused Israel to commit."(u)
17 Then Jeroboam's wife got up and left and went to Tirzah.(v) 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.(w)
19 As for the rest of the events of Jeroboam's reign, how he waged war(x) and how he reigned, note that they are written in the Historical Record of Israel's Kings. 20 The length of Jeroboam's reign was 22 years. He rested with his fathers, and his son Nadab became king in his place.(y)
Judah's King Rehoboam
21 Now Rehoboam, Solomon's son, reigned in Judah.(z) Rehoboam was 41 years old when he became king; he reigned 17 years in Jerusalem, the city where Yahweh had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to put His name.(aa) Rehoboam's mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite.(ab)
22 Judah did what was evil in the Lord 's eyes.(ac) They provoked Him to jealous anger(ad) more than all that their ancestors had done with the sins they committed. 23 They also built for themselves high places,(ae) sacred pillars,(af) and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree; 24 there were even male cult prostitutes in the land.(ag) They imitated all the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.(ah)
25 In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt(ai) went to war against Jerusalem.(aj) 26 He seized the treasuries of the Lord 's temple and the treasuries of the royal palace. He took everything. He took all the gold shields that Solomon had made.(ak) 27 King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place and committed them into the care of the captains of the royal escorts[e](al) who guarded the entrance to the king's palace. 28 Whenever the king entered the Lord 's temple, the royal escorts would carry the shields, then they would take them back to the royal escorts' armory.(am)
29 The rest of the events of Rehoboam's reign,(an) along with all his accomplishments, are written about in the Historical Record of Judah's Kings. 30 There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam throughout their reigns.(ao) 31 Rehoboam rested with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. His mother's name was Naamah the Ammonite.(ap) His son Abijam[f](aq) became king in his place.
Judah's King Abijam
1 In the eighteenth year of Israel's King Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijam became king over Judah 2 and reigned three years in Jerusalem.(a) His mother's name was Maacah(b) daughter[a] of Abishalom.
3 Abijam walked in all the sins his father before him had committed,(c) and he was not completely devoted to the Lord his God as his ancestor David had been.(d) 4 But because of David, the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem to raise up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem.(e) 5 For David did what was right in the Lord 's eyes, and he did not turn aside from anything He had commanded him all the days of his life,(f) except in the matter of Uriah(g) the Hittite.
6 There had been war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of Rehoboam's life.(h) 7 The rest of the events of Abijam's reign, along with all his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Judah's Kings.(i) There was also war between Abijam and Jeroboam.(j) 8 Abijam rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of David.(k) His son Asa became king in his place.(l)
Judah's King Asa
9 In the twentieth year of Israel's King Jeroboam,(m) Asa became king of Judah 10 and reigned 41 years in Jerusalem. His grandmother's[b] name was Maacah(n) daughter[c] of Abishalom.
11 Asa did what was right in the Lord 's eyes, as his ancestor David had done.(o) 12 He banished the male cult prostitutes(p) from the land and removed all of the idols that his fathers had made.(q) 13 He also(r) removed his grandmother[d] Maacah from being queen mother because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. Asa chopped down her obscene image and burned it(s) in the Kidron Valley.(t) 14 The high places were not taken away;(u) but Asa's heart was completely devoted to the Lord his entire life.(v) 15 He brought his father's consecrated gifts and his own consecrated gifts into the Lord 's temple: silver, gold, and utensils.(w)
16 There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel throughout their reigns.(x) 17 Israel's King Baasha went to war against Judah.(y) He built Ramah(z) in order to deny anyone access to Judah's King Asa. 18 So Asa withdrew all the silver and gold that remained in the treasuries of the Lord 's temple(aa) and the treasuries of the royal palace and put it into the hands of his servants. Then King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad(ab) son of Tabrimmon son of Hezion king of Aram who lived in Damascus,(ac) saying, 19 "There is a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father.(ad) Look, I have sent you a gift of silver and gold. Go and break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel(ae) so that he will withdraw from me."
20 Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel. He attacked Ijon,(af) Dan,(ag) Abel-beth-maacah,(ah) all Chinnereth,(ai) and the whole land of Naphtali.(aj) 21 When Baasha heard about it, he quit building Ramah and stayed in Tirzah.(ak) 22 Then King Asa gave a command to everyone without exception in Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timbers Baasha had built it with. Then King Asa built Geba(al) of Benjamin and Mizpah(am) with them.
23 The rest of all the events of Asa's reign,(an) along with all his might, all his accomplishments, and the cities he built, are written in the Historical Record of Judah's Kings.(ao) But in his old age he developed a disease in his feet.(ap) 24 Then Asa rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of his ancestor David.(aq) His son Jehoshaphat(ar) became king in his place.
Israel's King Nadab
25 Nadab son of Jeroboam(as) became king over Israel in the second year of Judah's King Asa; he reigned over Israel two years. 26 Nadab did what was evil in the Lord 's sight and followed the example of his father and the sin he had caused Israel to commit.(at)
27 Then Baasha(au) son of Ahijah of the house of Issachar conspired against Nadab, and Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon(av) of the Philistines while Nadab and all Israel were besieging Gibbethon. 28 In the third year of Judah's King Asa,(aw) Baasha killed Nadab(ax) and reigned in his place.
29 When Baasha became king, he struck down the entire house of Jeroboam.(ay) He did not leave Jeroboam any survivors but[e] destroyed his family according to the word of the Lord He had spoken through His servant Ahijah the Shilonite.(az) 30 This was because Jeroboam had provoked[f] the Lord God of Israel by the sins he had committed and had caused Israel to commit.(ba)
31 The rest of the events of Nadab's reign, along with all his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Israel's Kings.(bb) 32 There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel throughout their reigns.(bc)
Israel's King Baasha
33 In the third year of Judah's King Asa, Baasha son of Ahijah became king over all Israel and reigned in Tirzah(bd) 24 years. 34 He did what was evil in the Lord 's sight and followed the example of Jeroboam and the sin he had caused Israel to commit.(be)
Acts 12
Chapter 12
James Martyred and Peter Jailed
1 About that time King Herod cruelly attacked some who belonged to the church, 2 and he killed James,(a) John's brother, with the sword. 3 When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter too, during the days of Unleavened Bread.(b) 4 After the arrest, he put him in prison and assigned four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover. 5 So Peter was kept in prison, but prayer was being made earnestly to God for him by the church.
Peter Rescued
6 On the night before Herod was to bring him out for execution, Peter, bound with two chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, while the sentries in front of the door guarded the prison. 7 Suddenly an angel of the Lord(c) appeared, and a light shone in the cell. Striking Peter on the side, he woke him up and said, "Quick, get up!" Then the chains fell off his wrists.(d) 8 "Get dressed," the angel told him, "and put on your sandals." And he did so. "Wrap your cloak around you," he told him, "and follow me." 9 So he went out and followed, and he did not know that what took place through the angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision.(e) 10 After they passed the first and second guard posts, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went outside and passed one street, and immediately the angel left him.(f)
11 Then Peter came to himself and said, "Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from Herod's grasp and from all that the Jewish people expected."(g) 12 When he realized this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John Mark,[a](h) where many had assembled and were praying. 13 He knocked at the door in the gateway, and a servant named Rhoda came to answer. 14 She recognized Peter's voice, and because of her joy, she did not open the gate but ran in and announced that Peter was standing at the gateway.
15 "You're crazy!" they told her. But she kept insisting that it was true. Then they said, "It's his angel!"(i) 16 Peter, however, kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astounded.
17 Motioning to them with his hand(j) to be silent, he explained to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. "Report these things to James[b](k) and the brothers," he said. Then he departed and went to a different place.
18 At daylight, there was a great commotion[c] among the soldiers as to what could have become of Peter. 19 After Herod had searched and did not find him, he interrogated the guards and ordered their execution. Then Herod went down from Judea to Caesarea and stayed there.(l)
Herod's Death
20 He had been very angry with the Tyrians and Sidonians.[d] Together they presented themselves before him. They won over Blastus, who was in charge of the king's bedroom, and through him they asked for peace, because their country was supplied with food from the king's country.(m) 21 So on an appointed day, dressed in royal robes and seated on the throne, Herod delivered a public address to them. 22 The assembled people began to shout, "It's the voice of a god and not of a man!" 23 At once an angel of the Lord(n) struck him because he did not give the glory to God, and he became infected with worms and died.(o) 24 Then God's message flourished and multiplied.(p) 25 After they had completed their relief mission, Barnabas and Saul returned to[e] Jerusalem, taking along John who is called Mark.(q)
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